All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music
- ISBN-10
- 087930717X
- ISBN-13
- 9780879307172
- Category
- Jazz
- Pages
- 1472
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- San Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Pub.
- Authors
- Vladimir Bogdanov, ed)
Description
Covers more than eighteen thousand recordings and more than 1,700 musicians from across the jazz spectrum and includes a history of the different types of jazz, the evolution of jazz instruments, and essays on styles.
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