Talk:The Penguin Guide to Jazz

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If anyone would like me to look up anything in the eighth edition of this book, leave me a message at User Talk:Moeron. I have it preodered from Amazon.com, so I hope to get it within the first week of December. I received this book on December 16th (along with The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. -- moe.RON ^{Let's talk | done} 03:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Previously, a new edition of the Penguin Guide has emerged every 2 years, which means that one could have expected a 10th edition in 2010. Instead, the new title is The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums (ISBN 978-0141048314). It's still credited to both Brian Morton and the late Richard Cook, but now it limits itself to the "1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have." It isn't clear to me whether this new edition supplants the earlier format. If this is the case, should we write about the new version in this article, or a new article? Without knowing more at the time of this writing, I am leaning toward keeping it here, as a continuation of the original series (which itself has slightly changed its title over the years, as has the All Music Guide to Jazz). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 00:24, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone ahead and added the new Penguin Jazz Guide to this article. (Also note that the cover specifies 1001 recordings, while other descriptions mention 1000.) I don't think it is accurate to call this the "10th edition" but, based at least on one newspaper review, this is considered to be a continuation of the original series. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:05, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I had already updated the article, but forgot to leave a note on this page: It is indeed the 10th edition (albeit "very much smaller than its predecessors"), as per page xxvii in the Introduction. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:11, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]