The Rough Guide to Jazz 2 (Rough Guide Music Guides)

This completely updated and expanded edition of The Rough Guide to Jazz is the essential one-volume guide to the music. Ian Carr Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley are practising musicians and renowned jazz authorities and they bring their insiders knowledge to a guide that features more than 2000 critical biographies covering the spectrum from the legendary cornettist Buddy Bolden to young contemporaries like James Carter and Stacey Kent; reviews of more than 3000 albums on both CD and vinyl selecting the top recordings for every key artist; and classic photos from the best jazz photographers including Herman Leonard Jak Kilby Raffaella Cavalieri William Gottlieb and David Redfern.