Music: Books

Coverage: Nineteenth Century to Present.
Handy, alphabetically-arranged one-volume resource providing brief biographical information on jazz artists from the nineteenth century to the present. Entries are in boldface, and furnish the primary instrument of the artist, bands they performed in, institutions at which they were trained, recording and film information where appropriate, and additional anecdotal information. The work includes a list of abbreviations used as well as two prefaces. "This book is based in part on Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz, The New Encyclopedia of Jazz, The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties, and on a subsequent work by Mr. Feather and Ira Gitler, The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies"--P. ix.