The biographical encyclopedia of jazz /

Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994.

The biographical encyclopedia of jazz / Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, with the assistance of Swing journal, Tokyo. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2007, c1999. - xx, 718 p. ; 26 cm.

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback"--T.p. verso. First published: Oxford University Press, c1999. "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.

Includes discographies.

Offers more than 3,300 entries covering musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Thelonious Monk, and Wynton Marsalis.

9780195320008 : $29.95 019532000X : $29.95


Jazz--Bio-bibliography.
Jazz--Discography.

REF ML 102 / .J3F39 2007