Jazz Books

Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to the music. In this book, Brian Morton has picked out 1001 essential recordings from their acclaimed guide, adding new information, revising and reassessing each entry, and showing how these key pieces tell the history of the music - and with it the history of the twentieth century.

THE CLYDE VALLEY STOMPERS became, in the 1950s, Scotland’s premier jazz band and first ever super group, creators of a phenomenon dubbed ‘Stompermania’ decades before most of the country’s current rock idols were even born.