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Jazz History Books
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Miles: The Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 16,760 ratings — published 1989
Lady Sings the Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 7,693 ratings — published 1956
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 289 ratings — published 2024
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 824 ratings — published 2022
The History of Jazz (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 5,693 ratings — published 1997
Listen to This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 64 ratings — published 2015
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 665 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 3.48 — 546 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
Jazz (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 297 ratings — published 2009
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 2,565 ratings — published 2009
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 185 ratings — published 1955
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 321 ratings — published 2008
Jazz: A History of America's Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 588 ratings — published
VISIONS OF JAZZ: THE FIRST CENTURY: The First Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 397 ratings — published 1998
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,093 ratings — published 2024
Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 113 ratings — published 2016
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,429 ratings — published 1963
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 74 ratings — published 2024
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 — 106 ratings — published 1968
Strange Fruit (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,044 ratings — published 1944
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 421 ratings — published 2023
Rhapsody (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 761 ratings — published 2021
Wild Women and the Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 7,605 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 3.46 — 79 ratings — published 1998
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 — 1,389 ratings — published 2002
Tiger Rag (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 380 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 4.35 — 37 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 4.23 — 329 ratings — published 2004
Keith Jarrett: The Man And His Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 80 ratings — published 1991
Power, Passion & Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 49 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 — 849 ratings — published 1995
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 605 ratings — published 1998
Mingus: A Critical Biography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 77 ratings — published 1983
Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 155 ratings — published 2001
Elegant People: A History of the Band Weather Report (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.63 — 30 ratings — published
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,578 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
