The Bluffer's Guide to Jazz

by Peter Clayton, Peter Gammond, John Aaron Lewis

All you need to know on the subject of jazz so that you can blow your own horn in any social setting.

Genres: Music

64 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 1999

Reviews

[Mark]

Part genuinely informative summary of jazz and part a series of jokes that assume you're already familiar with it (I always remembered the quote: "[...] the rumour that [John Coltrane] had a crush on Julie Andrews is unfounded", which assumes you know his version of "My Favourite Things"). I've owned this book since I was a student (it was first published in 1987) and, like all of the Bluffer's Guides, it never fails to make me smile.

[Colin]

While brief and outdated, the humor was dry enough to be entertaining amongst the mountain of silly bullshitting.

[Steve Mitchell]

Like the majority of books in this series, this one is very funny and much of the so called facts are obviously made up: the difference here is that the history of jazz is just like that anyway. This book is seriously laugh-out-loud funny.