xrefer.com gets groovy with The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

xrefer.com, the web's reference engine, today made the renowned New Grove Dictionary of Jazz available online for the first time. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz further strengthens xrefer.com's music related content and joins the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Penguin Dictionary of Music. All are freely available through the xrefer.com destination site at http://www.xrefer.com.

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz is the largest, most comprehensive and most accurate reference work on jazz ever published. With more than 4,500 articles by leading authorities, it covers the area in every aspect; from jazz groups, composers and arrangers, to instruments, terms, and styles, to record labels, institutions, and specialist areas such as clubs, festivals and the recording of jazz. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz also includes biographies of all the leading jazz performers, 1800 selective discographies and many entries also include detailed reading lists.

Adam Hodgkin, managing director, xrefer.com, said of the new addition: “The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz is the leading title in its field. It will not only add in-depth content to the xrefer.com destination site, but will also greatly complement our business to business content offerings."

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