How do you know father knew best? You ever see the record collection?

[Big Beat Steve]

Re- the Arrigo Polillo book:

Strange ... I have heard of that history of jazz by Arrigo Polillo but I cannot recall having ever seen this German edition in the music sections of the bookstores I checked out in those pre-internet days when anything published domestically on jazz would catch your eye much easier than in later decades. Maybe around here (on the home turf of the SWF and SDR radio stations) the shadow cast by Berendt and his publications was overwhelming ...

[Niko]

Could be, up north in Cologne, the public library had it when I was a kid in the 90s... but I wouldn't know anymore whether I ever read it (even though I read dozens of their jazz books)