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Books on Jazz (nonfiction)
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Treat It Gentle
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Sidney Bechet
3.94 avg rating — 150 ratings
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In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz
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Donald M. Marquis
3.97 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Bass Line: The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton
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Milt Hinton
4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Dance Of The Infidels: A Portrait Of Bud Powell
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Francis Paudras
4.46 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Jazz People of New Orleans
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Lee Friedlander
4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Four Lives in the Bebop Business
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A.B. Spellman
4.21 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson
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W. Royal Stokes
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Coming Through Slaughter
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Michael Ondaatje
3.86 avg rating — 7,003 ratings
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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
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George E. Lewis
4.52 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Notes from a Battered Grand: A Memoir/Fifty Years of Music, from Honky-Tonk to High Society
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Don Asher
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Great black music: Ancient to the future
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Chicago Beau
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5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ed van der Elsken: Jazz
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Jan Vrijman
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4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Side Man
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Warren Leight
3.86 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
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Sam Stephenson
4.45 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Sound I Saw
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Roy DeCarava
4.47 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life
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John Litweiler
3.80 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Jazzplakate =: Jazz posters
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Niklaus Troxler
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5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
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Gunther Schuller
4.09 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
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John Litweiler
3.87 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
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Robin D.G. Kelley
4.31 avg rating — 2,564 ratings
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Willie and Dwike: An American Profile
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William Zinsser
4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Jazz in Search of Itself
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Larry Kart
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Bird's Diary
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Ken Vail
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The Tin Angel
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Paul Pines
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