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Jazz History Books
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Miles: The Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 16,384 ratings — published 1989
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 247 ratings — published 2024
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 790 ratings — published 2022
Listen to This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 62 ratings — published 2015
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 659 ratings — published 2013
Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
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avg rating 4.05 — 42 ratings — published 1996
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 536 ratings — published 2015
Chicago Jazz and Then Some: As Told by One of the Original Chicagoans, Jess Stacy (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2010
Lady Sings the Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 7,489 ratings — published 1956
Jazz (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 295 ratings — published 2009
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 183 ratings — published 1955
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 320 ratings — published 2008
Visions of Jazz: The First Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 394 ratings — published 1998
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 72 ratings — published
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 32 ratings — published 1994
Jazz Masters and Modern Movements (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Jazz Legends and Legacies (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Jazz Reinvented: Innovations and Transformations (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Cultural Fusion Frontiers (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Urban Jazz Origins : A Journey Through Sound and Culture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Miles Davis : Igniting Jazz Innovation, Style, And Swagger (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (The ^AHistory of Jazz)
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avg rating 4.09 — 103 ratings — published 1968
Strange Fruit (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 972 ratings — published 1944
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 394 ratings — published
Rhapsody (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 754 ratings — published 2021
Wild Women and the Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 7,420 ratings — published 2021
The Australian jazz explosion (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Jazz For Dummies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 77 ratings — published 1998
The History of Jazz (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 5,515 ratings — published 1997
50 Years at the Village Vanguard : Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Vanguard Jazz O (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,364 ratings — published 2002
Tiger Rag (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 378 ratings — published 2013
Eberhard Weber Résumé: Eine deutsche Jazz-Geschichte (German Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2015
Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984 (Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz)
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avg rating 4.33 — 36 ratings — published
Devil Take the Hindmost, The Otherworldly Music of Allan Holdsworth: FMS Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 320 ratings — published 2004
Keith Jarrett: The Man And His Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 77 ratings — published 1991
Power, Passion & Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 48 ratings — published 2006
Jaco: The Extraordinary and the Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, "The World'S Greatest Bass Player" (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 831 ratings — published 1995
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 588 ratings — published 1998
Mingus: A Critical Biography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 78 ratings — published 1983
Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 153 ratings — published 2001
Elegant People: A History of the Band Weather Report (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 29 ratings — published
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,530 ratings — published 2014
You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 42 ratings — published 2012
Lost Cincinnati Concert Venues of the '50s and '60s: From the Surf Club to Ludlow Garage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30 ratings — published 2013
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 15,769 ratings — published 2007
The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture (Portable Stanford Book Series)
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avg rating 4.00 — 53 ratings — published 1988
Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat... (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 33 ratings — published 2008
