The difficulties of writing cogently about jazz—of discerning musical regularities in a genre built around improvisatory jams, and a narrative thread that transcends haphazard biography—are admirably addressed in this history. Critic Giddins (Bing Crosby) and historian DeVeaux (The Birth of Bebop) have an easier task in the book's first half, which traces jazz's coalescence in New Orleans out of varied strands of black music, its shaping by Armstrong, Ellington and other giants and its efflorescence in the big band era as the soundtrack of the American century.

Dinah Washington - Compact Jazz (1987)
Jazz, Vocal Jazz | 1CD | MP3 | 320 kbps |44,1kHz| 148 Mb

Tracklist:

01 What a Diff'rence a Day Made (Adams, Grever) 2:29
02 I Could Write a Book Hart, (Johnson, Rodgers) 4:23
03 Make Me a Present of You (Green, Greene) 2:49
04 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Harbach, Kern) 3:21
05 I Want to Be Loved (Churchi