num_pages: 500
description: Explores the lives and contributions of more than one hundred major jazz musicians as well as describing the major styles and stages marking the development of jazz from ragtime and blues to electronic jazz
language: English
title: The Making of Jazz
titlecomplete: The Making of Jazz
genres: Music, Jazz, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 72
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History (Paperback)
publisher: Dell Publishing