Jazz


Wild Women and the Blues
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
Can't We Be Friends
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
Enter the Blue
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong
Deep Cuts
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
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Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
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 Great Gatsby
John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece
VISIONS OF JAZZ: THE FIRST CENTURY: The First Century
Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
Total Jazz by BlutchMonk! by Youssef DaoudiAmerican Splendor by Harvey PekarChasin' the Bird by Dave ChisholmHot Jazz by Hunt Emerson
Jazz Illustrated
10 books — 3 voters
The Jazz Harmony Book by David BerkmanMel Bay Hokum by Leon GrizzardImprovisation by Derek   BaileyMickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar Book 1 | Jazz G... by Mickey BakerHarmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz... by Gary Motley
Jazz Theory and Harmony
5 books — 2 voters

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri FinkTaste of Tremé by Todd-Michael  St. PierreCreating the Big Easy by Anthony J. StanonisUntold by Lynette Norris WilkinsonSpirit World by Michael P. Smith
New Orleans History and Culture
138 books — 4 voters
Never Enough by Lauren DaneBlindsight by Tina WainscottBeautiful Scars by Shiloh WalkerOver the Line by Cindy GerardHotter Than Wildfire by Lisa Marie Rice
Best Singers in Contemporary Romance
119 books — 10 voters



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Ralph Ellison
There is in this a cruel contradiction implicit in the art form itself. For true jazz is an art of individual assertion within and against the group. Each true jazz moment (as distinct from the uninspired commercial performance) springs from a contest in which each artist challenges all the rest; each solo flight, or improvisation, represents (like the successive canvases of a painter) a definition of his identity: as individual, as member of the collectivity and as a link in the chain of tradit ...more
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