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Today, jazz is considered high art, Americas national music, and the catalog of its recordingsits discographyis often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Eppersons More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazzs legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Read more