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Jazz Books
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The History of Jazz (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,770 ratings — published 1997
Miles: The Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,969 ratings — published 1989
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,355 ratings — published 1992
How to Listen to Jazz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,545 ratings — published 2016
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,601 ratings — published 2009
Beneath the Underdog (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,912 ratings — published 1971
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,302 ratings — published 2024
Lady Sings the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,854 ratings — published 1956
John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
by (shelved 42 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.15 — 628 ratings — published 1998
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,405 ratings — published 2002
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,030,074 ratings — published 1925
Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,391 ratings — published 2000
VISIONS OF JAZZ: THE FIRST CENTURY: The First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.18 — 399 ratings — published 1998
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.45 — 484 ratings — published 2012
Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
by (shelved 36 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.18 — 798 ratings — published 1973
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.95 — 970 ratings — published 2007
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.13 — 686 ratings — published 2018
As Serious As Your Life: John Coltrane and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.31 — 669 ratings — published 1977
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.44 — 502 ratings — published 1992
Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,348 ratings — published
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.88 — 991 ratings — published 2013
The Jazz Theory Book (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 29 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,066 ratings — published 1995
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,057 ratings — published 1980
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.31 — 756 ratings — published 1996
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.05 — 611 ratings — published 1998
Jazz: A History of America's Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.17 — 589 ratings — published
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,613 ratings — published 2014
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.05 — 317,915 ratings — published 2009
Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.27 — 245 ratings — published 1994
Black Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.10 — 574 ratings — published 1966
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.03 — 428 ratings — published 2006
Coming Through Slaughter (Vintage International)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,084 ratings — published 1976
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,458 ratings — published 1963
Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.01 — 433 ratings — published 1993
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.26 — 189 ratings — published 1955
Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.95 — 645 ratings — published 2008
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (The ^AHistory of Jazz)
by (shelved 23 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.09 — 106 ratings — published 1968
Half Blood Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.70 — 17,841 ratings — published 2011
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.89 — 672 ratings — published 2013
Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.16 — 892 ratings — published 1998
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.15 — 978 ratings — published 2009
Music is My Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.98 — 454 ratings — published 1973
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.61 — 454,306 ratings — published 1957
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (Board Book)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.03 — 806 ratings — published 1992
The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.16 — 251 ratings — published 1953
Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews (Expanded Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.45 — 280 ratings — published 1977
to Be or not to Bop: Memoirs- Dizzy Gillespie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.25 — 196 ratings — published 1979
The Birth Of Bebop: A Social And Musical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.29 — 110 ratings — published 1997
Myself When I am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.74 — 202 ratings — published 2000
“Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the richest.”
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“When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.”
― Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
― Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
