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I want to make a different kind of jazz recommendation:
Everybody knows Ken Burn's appreciation of the American idiom, Jazz.
Burns' treatment is filled with exuberance and excellent pictography, but I want to recommend above it (though perhaps in collaboration with it) a more serious and deep text, The History of Jazz byTed Gioia. As a thoughtful introduction to the figures and ideas that interwove to create the jazz tradition, I don't believe it can be bested. It is also an invaluable guide to filling out a canonical collection of jazz recordings.
Here's an exercept.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...toryofjazz.htm
Everybody knows Ken Burn's appreciation of the American idiom, Jazz.
Burns' treatment is filled with exuberance and excellent pictography, but I want to recommend above it (though perhaps in collaboration with it) a more serious and deep text, The History of Jazz byTed Gioia. As a thoughtful introduction to the figures and ideas that interwove to create the jazz tradition, I don't believe it can be bested. It is also an invaluable guide to filling out a canonical collection of jazz recordings.
Here's an exercept.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...toryofjazz.htm
