Essential Jazz Records - v. 1 : Ragtime to Swing

A personal, and sometimes controversial, selection by three jazz critics of the "best" 250 jazz records - mostly LP collections of 78 rpm originals - from the earliest roots of music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era.

Each record is placed in its musical context and reviewed in some depth.

For each disc, full details of personnel and recording dates and locations are given.