The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records Book Favorite jazz label of all time? Easy, right? It's Blue Note... but is it? Impulse released my favorite jazz record of all time (A Love Supreme) and maintained a tighter visual language throughout the years. This top notch book goes through the entire history of the label starting with the godfather, Creed Taylor, and moving its way through the various stages of jazz it helped promote. In addition, interspersed throughout the book, the author writes two page essays on approximately 40 Impulse albums from artist such as Ray Charles, Oliver Nelson, Freddie Hubbard, Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, Ahmad Jamal, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane and others (pretty impressive, huh?). Softcover, 338 pages, recommended if you ever admired an Impulse record.

reviewed by the mgmnt