The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, is the largest, most comprehensive and accurate reference work on jazz ever published, putting the world of jazz at your fingertips. With articles on every aspect of the field, from jazz groups, composers and arrangers to instruments, terms, record labels and venues, the new edition is the ideal companion for scholars and enthusiasts in this rapidly growing field.

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition comes in three hardback volumes and includes:

- 2750 new entries on previously under-represented areas
- 1500 new biographies of musicians who came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s to bring you up to date with who's who throughout the jazz world.
- Details on libraries and archives world-wide holding jazz collections, so if it's not in The New Grove Jazz, you will know just where to look.
- World jazz with unprecedented depth of coverage of musicians from the Caribbean to Japan to South Africa reflecting the full impact of jazz worldwide
- List of venues worldwide, with entirely new listings for cities such as Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Gothenburg, Helsinki and Madrid bringing you up to date with jazz in performance.
- New material on jazz's relationship to diverse styles such as acid jazz, smooth jazz, hip-hop and reggae and increased coverage of rhythm and blues.
- Selected films and videos section, which lists performances and interviews with artists.
- Concise catalogue of over 450 festivals, with entries on the key events, to keep you up to date with live jazz.
- All entries completely revised and updated, with entirely new entries on key figures such as Louis Armstrong, inclusion of web addresses in bibliographies for the first time and the most comprehensive and accurate calendar of birth dates and death dates ever published for jazz.

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