Synopsis Traces the evolution of the guitar in jazz history and profiles the world's greatest jazz guitarists from the early 1900s to the present.
Details
Publication Date:
1999-09-01
Series:
Gourse, Leslie. Art of Jazz.
Size
Length:
143 pages
Height:
9.0 in
Width:
7.8 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
17.6 oz
Publisher's Note In this collection of riveting biographies of the great jazz guitarists, Leslie Gourse traces the history of the jazz guitar from its beginnings at the turn of the century to its current place in contemporary music. She looks at the lives and careers of the early blues guitarists and continues through the free jazz guitarists and neo-classicists of today.