Product Description: This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre...read more

Accompanied by a compact disc of rare recordings, a collection of essays, studded with engaging anecdotes, painstakingly reconstructs the obscure history of the pre-World War II, mostly black, Southern blues musicians who defined the genre. Original. Tour. IP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Dial Records catered to jazz musicians and record collectors. Charlie Parker was one of the major jazz artists to record with Dial. His Dial sessions occurred at the personal depths and artistic peaks of his career during which he introduced a number of such jazz staples as Ornithology and Scrapple from the Apple...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)