Jazz - The Essential Companion
by Carr, Ian, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0586085300
- ISBN 13
- 9780586085301
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About This Item
Paladin December 8, 1988. 1988. Softcover. 8vo softcover 576pp very good, lightly foxed end pages, otherwise unmarked. Illustrated with in-text b&w photo's. The most up-to-date (1988), and most comprehensive one-volume reference book on jazz - a mine of essential information with over 1600 entries covering the whole spectrum of jazz from Buddy Bolden to Courtney Pine. There are important essays on all the major jazz figures, including Armstrong, Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coultrane, as well as evaluation of more recent innovators such as Ornette Coleman and Joe Zawinul. The book also includes lucid definitions of Jazz terms. .
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- Bookseller
- Dial a Book (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53060
- Title
- Jazz - The Essential Companion
- Author
- Carr, Ian, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0586085300
- ISBN 13
- 9780586085301
- Publisher
- Paladin December 8, 1988
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Books Entertainment Music Jazz Carr Ian
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- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...