Title: Great for history, and choices, just a little bit dated on the records
Product review: I bought this book back in the early 1990s when I was just starting to learn about jazz.As an overview of jazz history, this review covers all of the basics (i.e. Kind of Blue, Giant Steps, etc), and has some eclectic choices for the 70s and 80s (this is the book that introduced me to Oregon and that was worth the price alone). The only critique is that some of the records recommended never made it to disk and are long out of print (even at the time of the publication I couldn't find about half of them); however, with the help of allmusic.com and a thorough music program with a deep jazz collection such as Rhapsody one can piece together the albums.Overall highly recommended.
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