num_pages: 240
description: This text is a sequence of biographical portraits of key jazz figures (whose innovatory work as improvisers ranks them with major composers), surveying important developments in the genre.
language: English
title: Jazz Greats
titlecomplete: Jazz Greats (20th Century Composers)
genres: Music
ratings_count: 17
series: 20th-Century Composers
publisher: Phaidon Press