The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.(Book Review)

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* The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 3v. 2d ed. Ed. by Barry Kernfeld. 2002. 1, 159p. appendixes. bibliogs. illus. Grove's, $550 (1-56159-284-6). 781.65.

The second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz is finally here. Originally published in 1988 by Grove as a two-volume set (and reprinted in 1994 by St. Martin's Press in a more economical single volume), this revision encompasses three volumes. Although some reviewers quibbled over the exclusion of their pet journeyman jazz musicians in...

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