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Paperback The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz Book

ISBN: 039952794X

ISBN13: 9780399527944

The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz

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A concise history of jazz The noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus Major performers from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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A good place to start

This is a compact, reader-friendly guide -- a good entry point into what is becoming a dauntingly large literature of jazz. Some sections are set up like a reference book, with alphabetized entries, making this a keeper for looking things up in future. Others provide good topical overviews. I recommend this book to students in my introductory "Evolution of Jazz" course. One quibble: no entry for "mainstream jazz."
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