The Blackwell guide to recorded jazz

Contents. Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgements to the Second Edition. Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition. Principal Selections. 1. The First Hot Bands. 2. Solo Stride and Swing Piano. 3. Big Bands to the Mid-1950s. 4. Swing-era Combos. 5. We Called it Music: Dixieland and Swing. 6. The New Orleans Revival. 7. The First Bop Bands. 8. The First Cool Jazz and West Coast Jazz Bands. 9. The First Hard Bop Bands. 10. Swing-Bop Combos. 11. Singers since the 1950s. 12. Latin Jazz. 13. Leaving Hard Bop. 14. Big Bands since the Late 1950s. 15. Soul Jazz and Jazz-Soul Fusion. 16. The Bop Revival. 17. Free Jazz. 18. Fusion. 19. Avant-garde Jazz, Freebop, World Music and other Eclecticisms.