“I was going to write that The Jazz Omnibus is essential for your library, but then I realized that The Jazz Omnibus really is a library. It serves a tasty range of sharp writing on subjects from notes on Cecile McLorin Salvant by Andy Senior to World Boogie Is Coming: How Henry Butler’s Piano Rekindled A Fiery NOLA Tradition, to Greg Burk’s observations on video games & virtuosity to Ted Gioia and much, much more. You will spend many happy years thinking about what you have read in this book.”
“The Jazz Omnibus is the most entertaining, illuminating anthology of its kind to appear in this century. It honors the ongoing liveliness of jazz and its devoted commentariat—specifically the members of the Jazz Journalists Association, launched by Howard Mandel at a time when a great many newspapers and periodicals offered jazz coverage. The publications have winnowed away, but just look at the tenacious and excellent jazz writing getting done all the same. It honors the ongoing liveliness of jazz and its devoted commentariat.”
“A quarter of the way into the 21st century, Jazz is experiencing something of a new golden age. As The Jazz Omnibus makes clear, the same can be said for the state of jazz journalism. If you love this music and those who write about it as much as I do, you will not be able to put this indispensable anthology down.”