All Music Guide to Jazz

by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine

(Book). Reviews and rates more than 20,000 sizzling recordings by over 1,700 musicians from New Orleans jazz to bebop, fusion and beyond. "Music Maps" chart the evolution of jazz instruments, plus the influence of significant players, vocalists and sidemen.

Genres: Music, Jazz, Nonfiction, Reference

1 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

Reviews

[H (trying to keep up with GR friends) Balikov · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jazz is a type of music that has been around since the latter 19th Century. Jazz music has been commercially recorded for about 100 years. Thus, this guide lists thousands of jazz artists. Even the number of the most prominent artists runs to many hundred.

Having said that, I am very impressed with how easy it is to get information on any artist. The main use of the guide is to help in choosing a particular recording by a certain artist or group. The reviews are excellent and the rating system is very helpful in (for instance) deciding what music to purchase or stream.

My edition is a bit out of date, but my jazz music tastes run to modern, swing, cool, bebop, and hot, and those are well covered.

[Armin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nicht absolut lückenlos, in Einzelfällen vielleicht zu kritisch im Umgang mit Neben- oder Spätwerken, aber eine herrliche Fundgrube von Rezensionen aus allmusic, bei der man den Widerspruch oder eine positive Parallelrezi ja auf der betreffenden Webseite posten kann.

[Ted Gurley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reference

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

I haven't read this entire book. It's like an encyclopedia of jazz. If you are an avid listener - get this book. It's baller.