Visions of Jazz The First Century

"Unlike too many other books inside the little world of jazz, Giddins has an expansive, welcoming view of it, one broad enough to embrace Rosemary Clooney as well as Ella Fitzgerald, Irving Berlin as well as Duke Ellington. He understands that jazz is American to the core and that the very essence of America is heterogeneity. It may not have been intended as such, but 'Visions of Jazz' is a celebration and reaffirmation of precisely that."Giddins, Gary is the author of 'Visions of Jazz The First Century', published 2000 under ISBN 9780195132410 and ISBN 0195132416.