Jazz Next Standard

[BeBop]

Anyone know anything about these?

http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=mk44jc944b

An amazing guide to some of the hippest jazz ever released -- a wealth of great albums from the 50s and 60s -- not just from the US, but from England, Italy, Germany, and many other global locales! As with other volumes in this series, the discography focuses on rare bits that have a strong current appeal -- the kind of older jazz albums that have inspired current players and producers -- and which are readily changing hands for big dollars in the collectors market. Most of the text here is in Japanese, but the book features color covers of hundreds of albums -- plus track listings, players, and dates. Like other Japanese discographies, the book's a great guide to get you digging even deeper -- and it's filled with loads of titles we'd never seen before at all!

http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=qvy...%3Bformat%3Dall

An essential guide to the hippest in jazz from the 60s, 70s, and 80s -- a wonderful book that specializes in underground spiritual jazz recordings! The volume is similar to other Japanese discographies we've carried -- with images of record covers, session dates, titles, and player information -- plus additional text in Japanese -- and the whole thing's a wonderful guide to lost soul jazz treasures from some of our favorite years in jazz -- including a wealth of indie and small label pressings! The book is divided up into different sections -- Part 1 featuring "25 Masters", with individual passages on Gary Bartz, Carlos Garnett, Billy Harper, Weldon Irvine, Don Cherry, and many others; Part 2 features "Fabulous Labels", including Tribe, Nimbus, Black Jazz, and Strata East; and Part 3 features "Extra Classics" -- more albums that are really lasting classics from the post-Coltrane generation! Book is softcover, 160 pages, with most images in color!

[Ken Dryden]

Sounds like this second book gets carried away with the use of "masters." It gets a bit useless if everyone who has been at it a couple of decades is now a "master."

[Rooster_Ties]

I've had the second book (Mode/Spiritual Jazz) for going on about three months now (got it from Dusty). I think it's pretty interesting, and well worth $10 or even $15.

Unfortunately I think it cost $20 from Dusty. (So I'm glad I have it, but it wasn't quite worth what I paid for it.)

Lots of titles in there I'd love to follow up on, that's for sure.

Can anybody report back about the first book?? It also looks interesting, but I was afraid that a lot more of the titles in it would be much better known, with very little that was obscure.