Reviews for The jazz handbook

The average rating for The jazz handbook based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-17 00:00:00 Martha Zouzalik Definitely for people who are already familiar with the Early Music movement.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-12-27 00:00:00 Justin Rice This is less than 1% of what I learned from this book . Do you know that : The disgraced Bill Cosby had a song that rose to # 4 ; and that David Soul of Starsky and Hutch fame sang ' Don't give up on us' which climbed to #1 Or that Jimi Hendrix had only one song that reached the Billboard top 40 , the criteria for this list . I thought Pipeline and Wipe Our' were both the work of The Ventures ; neither was ? Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye was Steam's sole contribution . Believe it or not , Debbie Boone's You Light up My Life spent more time at # 1 than any song by Elvis or The Beatles ! I consider myself an aficionado of music of the 60s and early 70s , but this book was a revelation to me . I ran out of post-a-notes marking music trivia that makes a difference to the serious student of rock . It took me an hour to find a well-used paperback edition , but I devoured it in a day . If you knew all these things you deserve a job in the trivia wing of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame !