The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century

For fifty years The Jazz Book has been the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume.

In this new seventh edition, each chapter has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the dominant styles and musicians since the book’s last publication in 1992, as well as the fruits of current research about earlier periods in the history of jazz. In addition, new chapters have been added on John Zorn, jazz in the 1990s and beyond, samplers, the tuba, the harmon...