Keith Waters鈥� 2011 book听听has won numerous accolades this year including:
- Down Beat magazine: Editor鈥檚 Pick
- New York City Jazz Record 鈥淏est of 2011鈥� book
- Jazz Journalist鈥檚 Association 鈥淏est of 2011鈥� book
- 2011 Jazz Scholarship Award from Jazz Interest Group of the Society for听Music Theory
- Association for Recorded Sound Collections Excellence Award
Downbeat Magazine writes, 鈥淲aters鈥� writing is impeccably clear and avoids needless jargon鈥his title is part of Oxford University Press鈥� new series of book-length discussions of classic jazz albums (another is Brian Harker鈥檚听Louis Armstrong鈥檚 Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings). In this era of audio downloads, such serious studies that dig into the significance of the records that have shaped our world are always welcome.鈥�
