Review

Abstract

A recently published book, The essential jazz records. Vol.1: Ragtime to swing, should become an essential item in any library's stock, whether it collects jazz records or not. Not only is it an excellent guide for the collector, but it is also a very readable history of jazz from its beginning to the end of the swing era and the beginning of the modern period. There are of course a number of histories of jazz, all of which contain references to records which illustrate the history. This book reverses the process by examining the records in chronological order of the period they cover and relating the records to the history they illustrate.

Citation

REDFERN, B., ASHWORTH, W. and KEARNS, R. (1985), "Review", New Library World, Vol. 86 No. 2, pp. 28-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038623