Barry Kernfeld
Yale University Press,1999
Paperback. 268pp. with CD.
£15.95

This book from the editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz offers a unique way of approaching and understanding jazz. Drawing on twenty-one historic jazz recordings, reproduced on a compact disc that accompanies the book, Barry Kernfeld illustrates jazz rhythm, forms, arrangement, composition, improvisation, style, and sound.

"For those who have a real love and curiosity for the music and some skill, reading this book will be one of the most rewarding experiences they could have. All students of the music, exponents and musicologists, should read it. It's an exceptionally good buy." - EDDIE HARVEY, The Musician

Attached to this book is a CD, containing 21 tracks giving examples by: Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, Count Basie and his Orchestra, Ornette Coleman and Prime Time, John Coltrane Orchestra, Miles Davis Quintet, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, and Sun Ra.

BARRY KERNFELD is editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and the Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz.

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