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Jazz Books
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The History of Jazz (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,517 ratings — published 1997
Miles: The Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,387 ratings — published 1989
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,221 ratings — published 1992
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,535 ratings — published 2009
How to Listen to Jazz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,362 ratings — published 2016
Beneath the Underdog (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,860 ratings — published 1971
Lady Sings the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,492 ratings — published 1956
John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
by (shelved 42 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.16 — 608 ratings — published 1998
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,774 ratings — published 2024
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,791,194 ratings — published 1925
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,364 ratings — published 2002
Visions of Jazz: The First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.18 — 394 ratings — published 1998
Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,338 ratings — published 2000
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.46 — 471 ratings — published 2012
Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
by (shelved 35 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.18 — 787 ratings — published 1973
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.13 — 657 ratings — published 2018
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.94 — 941 ratings — published 2007
Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,322 ratings — published
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.45 — 496 ratings — published 1992
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.88 — 967 ratings — published 2013
As Serious As Your Life: John Coltrane and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.31 — 641 ratings — published 1977
The Jazz Theory Book (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 28 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,056 ratings — published 1995
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,025 ratings — published 1980
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.05 — 589 ratings — published 1998
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.05 — 313,004 ratings — published 2009
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.31 — 739 ratings — published 1996
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.04 — 423 ratings — published 2006
Jazz: A History of America's Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.16 — 586 ratings — published
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,530 ratings — published 2014
Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.01 — 422 ratings — published 1993
Black Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.11 — 546 ratings — published 1966
Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.94 — 626 ratings — published 2008
Half Blood Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.70 — 17,596 ratings — published 2011
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.89 — 659 ratings — published 2013
Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.27 — 243 ratings — published 1994
Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.15 — 879 ratings — published 1982
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.26 — 183 ratings — published 1955
Coming Through Slaughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,901 ratings — published 1976
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.61 — 442,267 ratings — published 1957
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,406 ratings — published 1963
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (Board Book)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.04 — 797 ratings — published 1992
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.15 — 964 ratings — published 2009
to Be or not to Bop: Memoirs- Dizzy Gillespie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.25 — 193 ratings — published 1979
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (The ^AHistory of Jazz)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.09 — 103 ratings — published 1968
Music is My Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.99 — 444 ratings — published 1973
The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.17 — 245 ratings — published 1953
Myself When I am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as jazz)
avg rating 3.72 — 203 ratings — published 2000
Jazz Baby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,041 ratings — published 2007
The Birth Of Bebop: A Social And Musical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as jazz)
avg rating 4.30 — 109 ratings — published 1997
“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.”
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“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
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