Jazz


Most Read This Week Tagged "Jazz"

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
Enter the Blue
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Can't We Be Friends
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
Wild Women and the Blues
Deep Cuts
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
The History of Jazz
Miles: The Autobiography
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
How to Listen to Jazz
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Beneath the Underdog
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
Lady Sings the Blues
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
The Great Gatsby
Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece
Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
VISIONS OF JAZZ: THE FIRST CENTURY: The First Century
Ballet Boy by Anfaney GladwinBody Run by David J. BunnellForsaken Island by Sharon HinckTutu Much by Airin EmeryHidden Current by Sharon Hinck
Best Dance Books
19 books — 27 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsMina and the Undead by Amy McCawThe Awakening by Kate ChopinZeitoun by Dave Eggers
Best New Orleans Books
426 books — 349 voters

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve ValentineBright Young Things by Anna GodbersenThe Beautiful American by Jeanne MackinDiva by Jillian LarkinZ by Therese Anne Fowler
Jazz Age Covers
78 books — 23 voters
Dance Demons by Juliet M. SampsonA Tempest Soul by Oliver PhippsTaking Flight by Michaela DePrince84 Ribbons by Paddy EgerAstonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
Into the World of Dance
104 books — 27 voters



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Boris Vian
“ There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
― Boris Vian

Denis Johnson
“ After a noticeable silence, he'd recently published a book of technically baffling poems, with line breaks so arbitrary and frequent as to be useless, arrhythmic. On the page they look like some of Charles Bukowski's skinny, chatty, muttering-stuttering antiverses. Impossibly, Mark's words make music, the faraway strains of an irresistible jazz. It's plain to any reader, within a few lines—well, go read the poems and see, Marcus Ahearn traffics with the ineffable. He makes the mind of the speake ...more ”
― Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

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