"MAY WELL BE THE INDISPENSABLE ONE-VOLUME REFERENCE WORK ON THE SUBJECT OF MUSIC--CLASSICAL, ETHNIC, POP, OR ROCK...IF YOU MUST KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LYDIAN AND MIXOLYDIAN MODES, YOU CAN FIND THAT LUCIDLY DESCRIBED, BUT NOT TO THE EXCLUSION OF A NOTE ON THE PRACTICE AND ETYMOLOGY OF DOO-WOP." --HERBERT GLASS, LOS ANGELES TIMES
