Description

Hardcover, red cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 562 pages. Illustrated with vignette photographs. First edition. An up-to-date [for 1987] and comprehensive reference on jazz with more than 1600 entries. Includes important essays on all major jazz figure, lucid definitions of jazz terminology, historical and geographical essays, and much more. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket damaged, albeit essentially complete but for price-clipped flap. Near fine in fair dust-jacket.