Kernfeld, Barry Dean

Contains over 4,500 alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about various aspects of jazz, covering performers, venues, forms, terms, instruments, festivals, record labels, and other topics, and including discographies and photographs.

Contains alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about various aspects of jazz, covering groups, composers, arrangers, instruments, terms, record labels, and venues. Includes details on libraries and archives around the world that hold jazz collections, lists of selected films and videos, and a catalog of festivals.

Reveals that illegal distribution of music has been going on for almost a century, ranging from songs sheets to MP3 downloads.