Discovering Great Jazz: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Styles of the Top Musicians and Their Recordings on Cds, Lps, and Cassettes (Newmar) - Hardcover

Stroff, Stephen M.

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9781557041036: Discovering Great Jazz: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Styles of the Top Musicians and Their Recordings on Cds, Lps, and Cassettes (Newmar)

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ISBN 10: 1557041032 ISBN 13: 9781557041036

Publisher: Newmarket Pr, 1991

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Stroff describes eight distinct periods of jazz history, discusses 125 musicians, and offers a guide to more than 140 of their recordings (listed in all available formats). 30 period photos, bibliography, glossary of basic jazz terms, index.

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An introduction to any particular subject should be factual and objective, yet this title fails on both counts. Stroff, publisher of the jazz and classical music journal The Music Box , makes some highly questionable statements. For instance, he states that "Jazz developed because black musicians had inferior musical instruments," and that the great black bass player Ray Brown is "one of the few white powerhouse bassists." Stroff lists representative recordings and then admits they are scarce, while his list of 60 basic recordings inexplicably omits Charlie Parker, a major figure. In snubbing most post-1960s jazz and ignoring European jazz, he may mislead readers. For this topic, libraries should refer readers to Henry Martin's Enjoying Jazz (Schirmer: Macmillan, 1986), Mark Gridley's Jazz Styles (Prentice Hall Pr., 1985), or Joachim Berendt's The Jazz Book (Lawrence Hill, 1975).
- Paul Baker, CUNA Inc., Madison, Wis.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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He is the soul of brevity, fair-mindedness, catholicity of taste, and good prose manners. -- Booklist

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