The New Jazz Book: A History and Guide (Berendt, Joachim)

Used. Good. Well-read copy, with scuff, scrapes, dings, and some stains.

Paperback. Hill and Wang (1962).

If jazz is America's most widely known and universally accepted export, Joachim Berendt's The New Jazz Book is possibly the best known book on the subject in all Europe. Published first in Germany, where it has sold some 200,000 copies, it is considered one of the major works in the field and Berendt possibly the outstanding European expert.