The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
- ISBN-10
- 039472643X
- ISBN-13
- 9780394726434
- Category
- Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
- Pages
- 219
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- John Swenson
Description
Encompassing more than four thousand available jazz albums, this informative guide covers sixty-odd years of jazz recordings and every type of jazz--Dixieland, big band, bop, third stream, and fusion--and musician, with a helpful rating system
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