This beautiful coffee table book and 6-CD set travels the roads of jazz around the world, detailing a history of the genre and the artists who developed their music in big cities like New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, or New York. The roads of jazz are marked by great names and they present different styles that do not end in America, but reach every continent. The six CDs present the music of different jazz styles, from classic New Orleans jazz, swing, and bebop, up to cool and West Coast jazz. The recordings of creative innovators of jazz musicians who were typical at a different times demonstrate the development of the music.