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The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond

by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Gunther Huesmann · 1976

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The most comprehensive interpretive history of jazz available in one volume, this book contains a survey of the past and current styles, elements, instruments, musicians, singers, and big bands of jazz.

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long · 560 pages

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