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Setting the tempo
fifty years of great jazz liner notes
By Piazza, Tom
- ISBN
- 978-0-38548-000-0
- Publisher
- New York : Anchor Books, 1996.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1996
Fordham, who has written several jazz books including Jazz Man (Trafalgar, 1996), offers a collection of his journalism published in British periodicals between 1970 and 1995. These reviews feature contemporary American and British performers and vary in length from a few paragraphs to several pages. Because the majority were written on deadline and within space limits, Fordham had little opportunity for development. And because the reviews often cover multiple performances over the decades, material on a given musician tends to be scattered across the book. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
