The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz by Barry Kernfeld (Editor) Reprint Edition, Hardcover, 1358 pgs; List: $60.00 Amazon.com Price: $42.00 ~ You Save: $18.00 (30%) Published by St Martins Pr., Publication date: October 1, 1994 Dimensions (in inches): 11.27 x 8.94 x 2.39 ISBN: 0312113579 [Order]
	Quotable Jazz by Marshall Bowden (Editor), Mike Rooth (Illustrator) Paperback: 136 pages ; List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com Price: $10.47 ~ You Save: $4.48 (30%) Published by Sound And Vision Ltd., Publication date: October 4, 2002 Dimensions (in inches): 0.38 x 7.86 x 6.88 ISBN: 0920151558 [Order]
	Jazz Is by Nat Hentoff 1st Edition, Paperback, 288 pgs, List: $17.95 Amazon.com Price: $15.26 ~ You Save: $2.69 (15%) Published by Proscenium Pub; Publication date: April 1, 1984 Dimensions (in inches): 9.21 x 6.09 x .87 ISBN: 0879100036 [Order]
	But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer Rep Edition, Hardcover, List: $21.00 Amazon.com Price: $21.00 Published by North Point Pr; Publication date: January 1, 1996; Dimensions (in inches): 8.35 x 5.32 x .91 ISBN: 0865474907 [Order]
	Reading Jazz : A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now by Robert Gottlieb (Editor) 1st Edition, Hardcover, List: $45.00 Amazon.com Price: $45.00 Published by Pantheon Books; Publication date: November 1, 1996 Dimensions (in inches): 9.53 x 6.42 x 2.12 ISBN: 0679442510 [Order]
	American Musicians II : Seventy-Two Portraits in Jazz by Whitney Balliett 2nd Edition, Hardcover, List: $39.95 Amazon.com Price: $29.96 ~ You Save: $9.99 (25%) Published by Oxford Univ Pr; Publication date: December 1, 1996 Dimensions (in inches): 9.59 x 6.48 x 1.62 ISBN: 0195095383 review: Jazz and Pop Expert Editor's Recommended Book, 03/01/97: An earlier version of American Musicians appeared in 1986. Now the author has added 17 essays to the collection, and the result is a highly personal encyclopedia of jazz history, written with Whitney Balliett's trademark lyricism. Few critics can describe a piece of music with this kind of delicacy and precision. And the comments that Balliett elicits from his subjects are themselves worth the price of admission. Here, for example, pianist John Lewis goes right to the heart of jazz improvisation, and gives us a hint of what lays behind it: "When I take a solo, I try not to look at my fingers. It distracts me from music-making . . . I think about other things, even other music. If you break through those mere rules, destroy them, that's good, and it can become quite a marvelous experience. It's not just sadness or joy, it's something beyond that, perhaps exhilaration, but that's rare." [Order]

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