Authors: Richard Cook
ISBN-13: 9781932112108, ISBN-10: 1932112103
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co.
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Blue Note Records is the first full history of the most noted label in jazz. Cook lingers with record-collector zeal in analyzing everything from Sidney Bechet's 78s to Norah Jones' recent chart-topper. Insightful scenes abound.
Richard Cook, the editor of Jazz Review, is a keen and perceptive listener whose musical descriptions are generally vivid, challenging and witty. He studs each chapter with history -- usually solid when musicological, shakier when not. The recordings, however, are his passion -- the music, the engineering, the photos, the album covers. — Gene Santoro