By Steve Dollar
Jazz Guide: New York City is the only comprehensive guide
to jazz in the Big Apple –now updated to include all the
newest hot spots on the scene. Uptown, downtown. Big bands to subway
soloists. Elegant clubs with big-name headliners to hole-in-the
wall joints where the bands play all night. Jazz Guide profiles
more than sixty venues where you can hear the best of every kind
of jazz—big band, fusion, bebop, and funk; Creole, Afro-Caribbean,
rhythm-and-blues, groove-oriented, and electronic music; Gallic,
Arabic, and Brazilian acts; and music from drum cultures including
the Caribbean, Latin America, West Africa.
Profiles of contemporary clubs are interwoven with listing of
music festivals, specialty stores, jazz lore, including visits
to Harlem and 52nd Street in their heydays, the famous bridge
where Sonny Rollins moonlighted, and the neighborhood Louis Armstrong
called home. ISBN: 1892145437 • 176 pages • Paperback
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