Oxford University Press

Roberts cares passionately about Latin music and he is able to describe what he hears in it clearly enough to enable the non-Latin listener to hear it, too — The New York Times More…

Extremely informative.... An important appreciation of an oft-forgotten musician.... Dregni carefully dissects Reinhardt's virtuoso playing style without resorting to technical jargon, and he... — Downbeat More…

When he focuses on postwar jazz or on artists like Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, with whom he passionately identifies, Santoro is an engaged and insightful writer, and his wide-ranging tastes... — Washington Post More…

a suitably Promethean study, densely packed with musical examples and expansively judgmental on the pros and cons of a generation of players ... his insistence on getting to the core of the music,... — Sunday Times More…

it remains one of the most significant contributions to jazz scholarship to this day — Music Teacher More…

illuminating as a study, historical and sociological, of Romany culture, not least in its account of life under Nazi occupation — The Times More…