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Blue Note Records : the biography / Richard Cook.

by Cook, Richard, 1957-2007

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Boston : Justin, Charles & Co., c2003.

xi, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Originally published: London : Secker & Warburg, 2001.

MUSIC If one record label is synonymous with jazz of the 1950s and 1960s, it's Blue Note, whose back catalog includes no less than Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Cook, the editor of Jazz Review and coauthor of The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, presents a highly readable history of the label, drawing on magazine articles, books, liner notes, and original interviews. In addition to covering its founding by a pair of German immigrants and its golden era, the author treats the label's leaner years (the late 1960s to 1980) in depth. Also documented is Blue Note's rebirth and current standing in the corporate music environment. While a discography is included, it is not extremely detailed; those wanting a more extensive one would probably do better with Michael Cuscuna and Michel Ruppli's The Blue Note Label: A Discography (rev. ed.). The material here has been around in different forms for a while, but this is ostensibly the first book to deal with Blue Note's history up to today. Therefore, it is recommended for academic and public libraries, especially those with a jazz focus. Ronald S. Russ, Arkansas State Univ., Beebe; 288pg. CAHNERS PUBLISHING, c2003.-

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