The Guinness jazz companion

by Peter Gammond and Peter Clayton

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851123627
• ISBN13: 9780851123622
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub. Co
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dictionary of Classic Jazz

This unique reference book is a readers guide in dictionary format, and is one of the most interesting works on the subject. Bix? You go to this book not for biography, but to find out what a "bix" is. It does cover some modern jazz, but deals mainly with traditional jazz and dixieland. It explains a great variety of terms and concepts in American jazz music to Martians and British music fans, and will be most useful to those other aliens, modern Americans. It contains a wealth of history, and has wonderful pictures from the early days, and maps of cities showing key points in history such as key clubs and ballrooms. Much on the British trad scene.