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title: "Essential Jazz Records, Vol. 1: Ragtime to Swing First Edition"
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# Essential Jazz Records, Vol. 1: Ragtime to Swing First Edition

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    A great, but not current, guide to recorded jazz
  

*by E***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2000*

The first volume of the Essential Jazz Records (I'm not sure if the second volume ever appeared) is a very strong guide to early jazz on a number of accounts. Perhaps the most important reason for its succes is the fact that  the three authors are sufficiently alike in their predilections for the  book to be cohesive, but are sufficiently particular in their passions for  their to be a wide net as they attempt to gather in "the essential  jazz recordings."  There are enough recordings here to support the  title, and they are spread over a wide enough stylistic range (from African  music, to field recordings of African American performers, to blues to the  earliest jazz through swing to Charlie Parker's earliest recordings) so  that no one will find any gaping holes.  These three reviewers together  probably present a better feel for the breadth and beauty of early jazz  than any of the dozens of guides I have read. Anyone possessing all of  these records would certainly feel satisfied they had captured the essence  of early jazz. Another fine thing about this collection of reviews is the  keen insights they offer into the recodings themselves. I have often found  myself returning to recordings on my shelf and listening to them with new  ears in response to something written in this book. I do not always share  the views of these British jazz experts, but they do certainly inspire  reevaluation. The fault that many will find with the book is that the  particular recordings listed here are all long-since-disappeared LPs. Many  of the major label recordings have reappeared in pretty much the same form  on CD, but some have not. Nevertheless, almost all the music here is  available somewhere. By using this book as a guide to the music one should  be looking for, and another guide to help decide which reissue might have  the best remastering, etc., the explorer of early jazz won't go wrong.

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