The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD

The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
ISBN-10
0141014164
ISBN-13
9780141014166
Category
Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
Pages
1725
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Penguin
Authors
Richard Cook, Brian Morton

Description

The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD is now firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. For this completely revised seventh edition, Richard Cook and Brian Morton have reassessed each artist's entry and updated the text to incorporate thousands of additional CDs. The result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike.

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