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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
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4.32 avg rating — 742 ratings
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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
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3.89 avg rating — 660 ratings
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High Times Hard Times
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4.25 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
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4.18 avg rating — 787 ratings
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Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan
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3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
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4.16 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Lady Sings the Blues
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4.05 avg rating — 7,548 ratings
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Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
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3.94 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
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4.21 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
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Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee
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3.78 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
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4.02 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Miles Davis: The Man in the Green Shirt
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4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton
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4.21 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
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3.84 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Faith In Time: The Life Of Jimmy Scott
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4.33 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
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4.15 avg rating — 966 ratings
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Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews
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4.32 avg rating — 283 ratings
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John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
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4.16 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
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4.03 avg rating — 925 ratings
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Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography Of Count Basie
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3.75 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Myself When I am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
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3.72 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
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4.31 avg rating — 2,542 ratings
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Jaco: The Extraordinary and the Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, "The World'S Greatest Bass Player"
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4.14 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Shall We Play That One Together?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland
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4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Life Is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett
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3.78 avg rating — 490 ratings
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So What: The Life of Miles Davis
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4.02 avg rating — 400 ratings
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A Life in Jazz
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4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper
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3.99 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett
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3.74 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music
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4.24 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Straight Life
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4.33 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
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3.53 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Artie Shaw: His Life and Music (Bayou Jazz Lives Series)
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3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman
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4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley
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4.28 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Mr B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)
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3.87 avg rating — 4,545 ratings
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Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
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4.22 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
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3.83 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Being Prez: The Life and Music of Lester Young
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4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Fighting for Life (New York Review Books Classics)
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4.23 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The View from the Back of the Band: The Life and Music of Mel Lewis (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
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4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
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3.85 avg rating — 73 ratings
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One Man's Blues: The Life and Music of Mose Allison
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee
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3.78 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life in Rhythm and Rhyme
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3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael
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3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz
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4.28 avg rating — 202 ratings
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A Life in Jazz (Louisiana Artists Biography Series)
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4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
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4.12 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
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3.81 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz
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3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time
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3.90 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz
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3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan (Studies in Jazz Book 71) (Volume 71)
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman
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4.43 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time
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3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Carmen McRae: Miss Jazz
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3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop
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3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight
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4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
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4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré
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4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen
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4.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Song of the Hawk: The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins (The Michigan American Music Series)
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
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3.49 avg rating — 538 ratings
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The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend
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3.99 avg rating — 147 ratings
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In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
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3.98 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
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4.12 avg rating — 556 ratings
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SATCHMO
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3.93 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
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4.16 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940
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4.07 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Bix: Man and Legend
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4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life
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3.83 avg rating — 122 ratings
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to Be or not to Bop: Memoirs- Dizzy Gillespie
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4.25 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Dizzy
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4.05 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Jerry Dantzic: Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: With a reflection by Zadie Smith
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4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday
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3.95 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Billie Holiday
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3.11 avg rating — 484 ratings
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With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
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3.89 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Lady Day: The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday
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4.02 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Becoming Billie Holiday
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4.09 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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4.29 avg rating — 1,725 ratings
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Lady Sings the Blues
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4.05 avg rating — 7,548 ratings
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