With a sub-title of Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings 1949-1972, one might think this is a dry run-through of recording dates and personnel stats. Far from it. Author Tad Richards, 86,  gets into the personalities and tics of the greatest jazzmen ever while giving a personal up-close look at the music that moved a genre through swing, bebop, third-stream, the cool school, funky jazz and fusion before this independent label was swallowed up.