The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz [2 Volume Set]

by Barry Kernfeld

This contains over 4500 essays by many jazz writers and scholars. It blends information with selected recordings, bibliographical data and critical assessments. Entries cover performers, styles, festivals and venues, instruments, record labels, terminology and the history of jazz. The whole scope of jazz is covered, from Louis Armstrong to Boogie Woogie, from improvization to the Montreux Festival, and from blues to the banjo and Bird. It is an unaltered reprint in one edition of the original edition, but it includes a list of the jazz musicians who have passed away in the years since publication.

Genres: Jazz, Music

1408 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1988

About the author

Barry Dean Kernfeld, (1950- ) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians.