Title: Total let down.
Product review: This is a book for the Irritating Jazz "Critic". The type who held such power over the scene at the time, making and breaking as they pleased.For a start the book is obviously a vehicle for the authors favourites. Paragraphs galore are available for certain artsts, somewhat inexplicably for Coltrane (whose only recording for blue note is actually rubbished.) The name Sidney Bechet is quoted almost paragraph to paragraph. Jackie Maclean too.I found myself really disliking the book after Dexter Gordons entire blue note catalouge was rubbished.It only achieves the second star as it give a few new names to check out. If you must buy it wait till you find it second hand for a dollar.
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