The Oxford Companion to Jazz by Bill Kirchner (2000, Hardcover)
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| Management number | 4717830 | Release Date | 2025/08/12 | List Price | $48.75 | Model Number | 4717830 | ||
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A unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. This 848 pages book surveys the evolution of jazz from its roots in Africa and Europe until the present. Along the way, each distinctive style and period is profiled by an expert in the field. Also features individual biographies of the most memorable characters including Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Bessie Smith, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday among many famous others.
It is both a quick reference source book and an engaging read with a thoroughness found in no other single-volume jazz reference. A dynamic and broad overview written for all lovers of jazz, from novices to aficionados.
In very good pre-owned condition with the dust cover showing some wear. Retails for 110 new.
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