What to Listen For in Jazz [Paperback] Review

There is some valuable stuff in Kernfeld's book; I enjoyed particularly the section on the historical evolution of jazz styles.Kernfeld obviously knows his subject well.However, I found his organization lacking.Including a CD with selections by jazz greats to illustrate his points wasa fine idea; but the text should have been divided up so that the cuts onthe CD could be listened to in conjunction with full text descriptions inthe same order -- something about the personnel playing, why the cut issignificant historically, and comments on what we're listening to. Instead, Kernfeld scatters the references to the different tracksthroughout the text and this makes it much more laborious for thelistener/reader.My second gripe is with the idiot at the publishing house(I presume it wasn't Kernfeld) who thought it would be cute to use a tiny(maybe ten point) pseudo-artsy type face for the entire text.Come onfolks -- not every book has to be set in Times Roman, but this isn't evenremotely a book face.It gave me a headache after three pages.

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This new book from the editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz offers a unique way of approaching and understanding jazz. Drawing on twenty-one historic jazz recordings, reproduced on a compact disc that accompanies the book, Barry Kernfeld illustrates jazz rhythm, forms, arrangement, composition, improvisation, style, and sound.

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