The Rough Guide to Classic Jazz | |
Type: | Compilation |
Artist: | Various artists |
Cover: | RoughGuideClassicJazz.jpg |
Released: | 24 June 1997 |
Genre: | Jazz |
Label: | World Music Network |
Chronology: | Full series |
Prev Title: | The Rough Guide to the Music of North Africa |
Prev Year: | 1997 |
Next Title: | Best of Latin America |
Next Year: | 1997 |
Misc: | Complete list |
The Rough Guide to Classic Jazz is a jazz compilation album originally released in 1997. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series,[1] the album covers the genre's growth from the turn of the 20th century to the 1930s, largely focusing on the "Jazz Age". The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.[2] Curation was performed by Robert Parker, an audio engineer specializing in the period and host of the radio show Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo.[3] [4]
Keith Farley of AllMusic called it a "fine introduction". Michaelangelo Matos, writing for the Chicago Reader, claimed it "buried" the contemporaneous Swing Revival and noted his surprise at the number of "obscure white groups".[5]