Backbeat Books, 2003
Jazz on Record - The First Sixty Years: The Complete Story of Significant Artists and Their Recordings Through Six Decades of Music

In this 860-pages resource, Scott Yanow traces the history of jazz through its recordings. Most live performances from 1895 to 1976 are lost forever, but jazz fans can still experience a rich legacy of recorded work. comments and careful cataloging of thousands of CD and LP recordings of the most representative of the great artists of the 20 th century.

Along the way, he takes readers on a journey through the golden ages of jazz, covering styles such as New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, Dixieland, hard bop, soul jazz, the avant-garde, and fusion - and showing how these forms diverge, develop, and continue to flourish. A must for jazz fans, scholars and serious collectors.