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The Essential Jazz Records Volume 1 : Ragtime To Swing 
Max Harrison, Charles Fox &
Eric Thacker (eds)Mansell Publishing, 2000 (first published in 1984) Paperback. 607pp £25.00 
First published in 1984,
and reissued to coincide with the publication of Essential Jazz Records
- Volume 2: Modernism to Postmodernism, this collection is a personal,
and sometimes controversial, selection by three distinguished jazz critics
of the 250 'best' jazz records - mostly LP collections of 78 rpm originals
- from the earliest roots of music to the beginnings of the modern jazz
era. Each of the chosen discs is placed in its musical context and reviewed
in some depth, with full details of personnel, recording dates and locations.
Covering virtually all significant musicians of early twentieth-century
jazz, both the familiar and the comparatively obscure, no serious collector
of jazz will want to be without this book.
CONTENTS : Origins; The Twenties: Variations on the New Orleans Style; The Twenties: Styles Other Than New Orleans; Jazz in Europe - Interlude: The Influence of Jazz on European Composers; The Thirties and Swing; Against the Current: Traditional Survivals and Revivals; The Transition to Modern Jazz; Bibliography; Indexes MAX HARRISON, a critic of classical music as well as jazz, has written several books and numerous periodical articles on jazz. He has contributed to many music reference works, including The Charlie Parker Companion and A Miles Davis Reader. ERIC THACKER (deceased) was a clergyman, with a long-standing interest in jazz. He contributed to several jazz periodicals. STUART NICHOLSON is an eminent writer on jazz. Amongst other books, he has written biographies of Ella Fitzgerald (1993), Billie Holiday (1995) and Duke Ellington (1999). "…will certainly become one of the essential works of reference for the jazz enthusiast…the quality of the writing is extremely high…a volume to keep close to one's record collection…" - The Gramophone, 1985 |
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