What records are absolutely essential to understand what a wonderful experience jazz is? Through the analysis of individual records Carlo Boccadoro offers a series of tips a series of tips to help us navigate our way through this potted universe and at the same time outlines its particular "history" ranging from New Orleans dixieland to contemporary jazz, broken down into instrumental categories: pianists, singers, trumpet soloists, sax soloists, large orchestras... Page after page parade before our eyes the masterpieces of jazz and their exemplary recordings in a stimulating journey full of surprises, where there is no shortage of curious anecdotes that will not fail to fascinate even the experts in the field.