Remarkable book ... Astonishingly successful .... It tells the story of white jazz from Tom Brown's Ragtime Band to the big bands with meticulously researched detail and the awareness you would expect from such a noted cornettist and Bixophile. Lost Chords pretty much accomplishes the near impossible task of being simultaneously academic and popular.
Richard M. Sudhalter is a highly respected musician and one of today's outstanding trumpet players. A noted critic, broadcaster, and historian, he was co-author of Bix: Man and Legendc, still cited as the definitive Beiderbecke biography.