"Although written in 1956, it can still consistently meet the needs of music lovers (not just jazz afficionados) as a valid, or much better the most valid reference to the birth, development and establishment of jazz in the Western culture aesthetics".
From the Costas Giannoulopoulos' preface in the second edition (Gnosi, 1988).
"The Story of Jazz" written by the American critic and musicologist Marshall W. Stearns (1908-1966) was first published in 1956 by Oxford University Press.