Oxford Companion to Jazz

Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today''s top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such jazz insiders as Bill Crow, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Ted Gioia, Gene Lees, Dan Morgenstern, Gunther Schuller, Richard M. Sudhalter, and Patricia Willard. Both a reference book and an engaging read, the Compan...