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List Price: $25.95 | | Publisher: Random House
Salesrank: 1052057
Released: April 27, 1999 |
| Our Price: $11.75 |
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| Media: Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
The most comprehensive guide to jazz and blues recordings in print, including reviews of more than ten thousand albums. An essential book for any music fan's library.
The Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide Reviews:
What's going on? 
2000-07-22 - This guide is no better than John Swenson's "Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide" from 1985. That guide failed to include "Birth of the Cool", "Round 'bout Midnight" and "Sketches of Spain" by Miles Davis, "Time Further Out" by Dave Brubeck, and omitted the entire Buddy Rich discography. Yikes! It also gave different ratings to indentical collaborations which appeared twice in the guide. Rolling Stone guides are usually life-savers. I have had wonderful luck using their rock music guides. Why can't Rolling Stone get it together with jazz?
An invaluable guide to American music 
1999-09-25 - I found the previous Jazz Guide a valuable resource that was way ahead of its time. This update expands the scope of the original to include blues and roots music while making a convincing case for blues and jazz as the cornerstone of American popular music.
excellent resource for any Jazz buff.
1999-08-09 - It's about time RS updated this 1985 volume. It's great to read reviews of all the old masters and the young lions. The reviews are fair and well written. The text even steers you to deleted items that sometimes are better then the albums in print.
Many hidden treasures are found here. Up to date thru 4/99. Wish RS allowed buyers to download updates from the net.
Why can't Downbeat put out a book like this?
Scratch n' Sniff 
1999-07-31 - Didn't bother checking their take on Jazz given the dismal effort on Blues. While I love Stevie Ray, I didn't realize that his output was such a cut above Albert and Freddie King's. Turns out "Live at the Apollo" ain't very special. Gee, maybe Elmore James is mediocre too.....I may be biased in having heaved so shortly after opening. Ought to be on perforated paper. These guys really should stick to hair-do rock and cologne.
Useful but flawed
1999-07-24 - This book is a noble but flawed effort. The omissions are inexcusable. No Furry Lewis? No Jimmy Rogers? While the task of compiling such a guide is monumental, this book would have benefitted from better editing.
