The penguin jazz guide: the history of the music in the 1,001 best albums - brian morton

Richard Cook and Brian Mortons 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 Mortons Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the worlds 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.

One of the great books of recorded jazz; the other guides dont come close Irish Times Its the kind of book that youll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be reading two hours later Fortune The leader in its field .

If you own only one book on jazz, it really should be this one International Record Review Indispensable and incomparable NME Brian Morton is a freelance writer and broadcaster who for many years presented Radio 3s jazz magazine Impressions and In Tune.

Richard Cook (1957-2007) was formerly editor of The Wire and edited Jazz Review.

He contributed to many other publications, including the New Statesman and his books included Richard Cooks Jazz Encyclopaedia and Its About That Time: Miles Davis on Record.