The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Eighth Edition
by R. M. Cook, Brian Morton
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Author: Brian Morton, R. M. CookEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-28
ISBN: 0141023279
Number of pages: 154
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Eighth Edition
Book Review: Still the best, despite flaws in this edition...
Summary: 5 Stars
I always look forward to the new edition of the Penguin Guide to Jazz, and Cook and Morton don't disappoint this time around. By this point, there's no need for me to comment on the quality of the reviews -- they are consistently well-informed, thoughtful, pithy, and with any dash of sarcasm always undercut by genuine affection and reverence for this music. This is essential for any jazz lover -- be he/she a neophyte or someone already waist-deep in the music.
Their are some formatting developments in this edition. The index, absent from the last edition, has returned. I was pretty shocked and disappointed when it didn't make it into the last edition. They have introduced an "In Brief" section at the end of entries, which wraps up minor albums in an artist's ouevre. Generally it focuses on less essential titles -- works that are adequate but not spectacular -- and leaves the body of the entry to cover the highs and lows. Not a bad thing.
I will say that this edition suffers from poor copyediting. Some albums appear twice in the artist entry, and some sentences are clearly missing nouns/verbs/adjectives. Compared to the golden standard of previous editions, this is a bit disturbing.
And I guess Cook and Morton finally succumbed to all the nay-sayers who said that Michael Mantler is not jazz -- he is out of the book. That's too bad...
Summary of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Eighth Edition
The leading guide to recorded jazz, now extensively revisedMusic fans have been turning to this established reference through seven editions as a source of intelligent and insightful criticism. Fully updated to incorporate thousands of additional recordings, the eighth edition features artist biographies, detailed recording information with labels and catalog numbers, reliable and authoritative ratings, the authors' personal selection of the essential recordings for every collection, an index of artists, and more.
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