The jazz standards : a guide to the repertoire /
Ted Gioia.
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 528 p. ; 24 cm.
This is a comprehensive handbook to the 250 most important jazz compositions. The book highlights the most popular jazz standards, tells their story, explains their role in jazz, and serves as a gateway to the historic recordings that made these compositions into the foundations of the art form.