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Product Description B&W photos throughout Review Because the jazz guitarist has become rapidly and recently more prominent in our American culture, Yanow's ''The Great Jazz Guitarists'' is a timely, quick guide to who is currently performing, and who their influences are. Yanow gives 342 entries about present and past jazz guitarists, another 175 worth listening to, and 36 guitarists who briefly crossed over to jazz from other kinds of music. Many of the musicians will not be found in the second edition of ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,'' so libraries should buy a copy for name and date authorities. --Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association About the Author Scott Yanow (Burbank, CA) has been writing about jazz of all eras and styles since 1975. He has written for virtually all of the significant jazz magazines, including Downbeat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Coda, Cadence, and the Los Angeles Jazz Scene, as well as being a major contributor to the All Music Guide to Jazz. In addition, he has penned over 600 liner notes. It is estimated that Yanow has reviewed more jazz CDs than anyone in history. The Great Jazz Guitarists is his eleventh book.