Penguin 2010. Softcover, 800 pp
Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the
Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings
that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian Morton's
Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's
leading guide to the music. In this book, Brian Morton has picked out
1001 essential recordings from their acclaimed guide, adding new
information, revising and reassessing each entry, and showing how these
key pieces tell the history of the music - and with it the history of
the twentieth century. These are the essential albums that
that all true jazz fans should own, or - at the very least - have
listened to, from Kind of Blue to lesser-known classics and more
surprising choices. Full of fascinating updated biographical
information, new quotes and interviews and, of course, highly
opinionated and wittily trenchant critical reviews, the result is an
endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for
aficionados and jazz novices alike.