JAM Magazine: October/November 1998 Issue: Storyville

ALL MUSIC GUIDE TO JAZZ
3rd Edition
Edited by Michael Erlewine, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Scott Yanow; 1378 pp., soft cover; ISBN 0-87930-530-4, $29.95 + $5.00 shipping; Miller Freeman Books, 600 Harrision Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

The completely updated edition of All Music Guide To Jazz weighs in at four pounds with almost 500 pages more than the acclaimed 1996 version. The comprehensive volume is an informative guide through a maze of jazz data about films, videos, 18,000 CDs and LPs, plus a bulging cornucopia of biographical material.

Articulate profiles and historical essays, mostly written by the prolific critic Scott Yanow, provide definitive glimpses into the entire history of jazz. Yanow also reviews hundreds of books written during the last five decades that cover every aspect of the jazz story.

An elaborate index, listing thousands of names, runs the stylistic gambit from Armstrong to Coltrane, Buddy Bolden to Kenny G. The Guide includes scores of articles about jazz instruments, important venues, record labels and more. Readers will learn the difference between "classic jazz," "contemporary jazz," "mainstream," "progressive jazz," and half a hundred additional mutations of the music that developed from a modest folk art form into a world wide phenomenon.

This overwhelming amount of informative data will serve as a valuable reference for neophytes and veteran jazzophiles alike.

-- Floyd Levin

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	Search our site:		ALL MUSIC GUIDE TO JAZZ 3rd Edition Edited by Michael Erlewine, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Scott Yanow; 1378 pp., soft cover; ISBN 0-87930-530-4, $29.95 + $5.00 shipping; Miller Freeman Books, 600 Harrision Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 The completely updated edition of All Music Guide To Jazz weighs in at four pounds with almost 500 pages more than the acclaimed 1996 version. The comprehensive volume is an informative guide through a maze of jazz data about films, videos, 18,000 CDs and LPs, plus a bulging cornucopia of biographical material. Articulate profiles and historical essays, mostly written by the prolific critic Scott Yanow, provide definitive glimpses into the entire history of jazz. Yanow also reviews hundreds of books written during the last five decades that cover every aspect of the jazz story. An elaborate index, listing thousands of names, runs the stylistic gambit from Armstrong to Coltrane, Buddy Bolden to Kenny G. The Guide includes scores of articles about jazz instruments, important venues, record labels and more. Readers will learn the difference between "classic jazz," "contemporary jazz," "mainstream," "progressive jazz," and half a hundred additional mutations of the music that developed from a modest folk art form into a world wide phenomenon. This overwhelming amount of informative data will serve as a valuable reference for neophytes and veteran jazzophiles alike. -- Floyd Levin RETURN TO OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1998 MAIN INDEX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ © Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors 1996-2001. All rights reserved.