Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best
Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and
Brian Morton's Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading
guide to the music. In this book Brian Morton has picked out 1001 essential recordings from
their acclaimed guide adding new information revising and reassessing each entry and showing
how these key pieces tell the history of the music - and with it the history of the twentieth
century. These are the essential albums that that all true jazz fans should own or - at the
very least - have listened to from Kind of Blue to lesser-known classics and more surprising
choices. Full of fascinating updated biographical information new quotes and interviews and
of course highly opinionated and wittily trenchant critical reviews the result is an
endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices
alike. 'One of the great books of recorded jazz the other guides don't come close' Irish Times
'It's the kind of book that you'll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be
reading two hours later' Fortune 'The leader in its field ... If you own only one book on jazz
it really should be this one' International Record Review 'Indispensable and incomparable' NME
Brian Morton is a freelance writer and broadcaster who for many years presented Radio 3's jazz
magazine Impressions and In Tune. Richard Cook (1957-2007) was formerly editor of The Wire and
edited Jazz Review. He contributed to many other publications including the New Statesman and
his books included Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopaedia and It's About That Time: Miles Davis on
Record.
