With a foreword by Elvis Costello.

The world's leading authority on Jazz and the Popular Song, Benny Green (1927-98) wrote prolifically on the music he loved. A successful saxophonist who worked with Ronnie Scott and the Stan Kenton Orchestra, he was a true insider, writing from a matchless personal perspective.

For the first time, Such Sweet Thunder gathers a lifetime of jazz into one volume. Essays, concert reviews, and obituaries join previously unpublished material and Grammy-nominated sleeve notes in a unique collection, compiled by his son and fellow-musician Dominic Green.

The result is an encyclopaedic journey through the Jazz Century, from Trad to Avant-Garde, Irving Berlin to Ornette Coleman, and Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane. In the studio with Frank Sinatra, in the bandroom at Ronnie Scott's, at home with Ira Gershwin and backstage with Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Green traces the history of the music with insight and humour; this body of work forms a truly definitive guide to Jazz and the Popular Song.

"A wonderful collection of Benny Green's writings" - ELVIS COSTELLO

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