Review of Alyn Shipton. 2001. A New History of Jazz. London and New York: Continuum by Frank Tirro

“…Several excellent histories, such as those by Lewis Porter and Michael Ullman (1992) and by Ted Gioia (1997), have been published within the past decade, the former a work of careful scholarship and good pedagogical sensibility and the latter just as thoughtfully constructed, but more philosophical in nature. …”
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