Genres & Styles - Jazz
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Blues People
$16.99 Add to cart“A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America’s most popular music.” — Langston Hughes
“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And
- Author: Jones, Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 1999
- ISBN10: 068818474X
- Language: English
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Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949-1972
$24.95 Add to cartA complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.
Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or approac
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Richards, Tad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855804959
- Language: English
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album
$27.00 Add to cartFew albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane’s 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual ex… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003522
- Language: English
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Lit Up Inside / Keep ‘er Lit: The Collected Lyrics
$34.95 Add to cartLit Up Inside & Keep ‘Er Lit is the collected lyrics of Van Morrison, carefully selected by singer songwriter himself.
Featuring the lyrics to over two-hundred songs, and with a foreword by John Cooper… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Van
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0571398014
- Language: English
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1970s Jazz Fusion
$19.95 Add to cartThe once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop.
The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s J- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Baker, Matthew Reed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765119525
- Language: English
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The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life
$35.00 Add to cartHow a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place.… [more below]
- Author: Gennari, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582857
- Language: English
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A Guide to Jazz in Japan
$19.99 Add to cartFusing historical depth, cultural nuance, and travel insight into one beautifully written volume, A Guide to Jazz in Japan takes you through one of the most vibrant jazz scenes in the world. More than
- Author: Pronko, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1942410379
- Language: English
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Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk’s Guide to Loving Jazz
$16.99 Add to cartOnce you’ve collected every 7″ from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there’s nothing more to l… [more below]
- Author: Suren, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1648412084
- Language: English
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
$42.99 Add to cartOne of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of pop… [more below]
- Series: Cultural Biographies
- Author: Friedwald, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: May 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0190882042
- Language: English
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Jazz Revolutionary
$24.95 Add to cartJazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to Paris,
- Author: Grasse, Jonathon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1916829082
- Language: English
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How to Listen to Jazz
$18.99 Add to cartA “radiantly accomplished” music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal)
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia prese- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093493
- Language: English
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The Art of Jazz: A Visual History
$35.00 Read moreThe Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art.
Everyone knows- Author: Shipton, Alyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1623545048
- Language: English
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The Mandorla Letters: For the Hopeful
$29.95 Read moreAfrofuturist memoir on jazz, collaboration, and the search for collective well-being
Part memoir, part manifesto, part Black speculative novella, The Mandorla Letters: for the hopeful blurs boundarie- Author: Mitchell Gantt, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1737302829
- Language: English
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Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis
$19.99 Read moreGathering the 30 most vital Miles Davis interviews–on his music, his life, and his philosophy–this collection reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraor… [more below]
- Series: Musicians in Their Own Words
- Author: Maher, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604670
- Language: English
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Black Music
$18.95 Read more“Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music.” —WBGO (Newark Public Radio)
In
- Series: Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1933354933
- Language: English
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Jazz from Detroit
$39.95 Read moreJazz from Detroit explores the city’s pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz. With more than two dozen in-depth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented … [more below]
- Author: Stryker, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: July 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0472074261
- Language: English
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Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison’s Post-Beatles Record Label
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1974, as Apple was winding down, George Harrison and RIngo Starr both wanted to help new artists, so rather than trying to salvage Apple Records, each ex-Beatle created their own label. Ringo Starr… [more below]
- Author: Badgley, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1789522870
- Language: English
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Linda Ronstadt 1969 to 1989: Every Album, Every Song
$22.95 Read moreLinda Ronstadt is one of the most important women and people in the history of popular music. Starting her solo career in 1969, she redefined what a music superstar could be by expanding her repertoir
- Author: Lawrence, Daryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1789522935
- Language: English
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But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
$19.00 Add to cart“May be the best book ever written about jazz.”–David Thomson, Los Angeles Times
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Draw- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429479
- Language: English
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Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression
$50.00 Read moreTracing the evolution of jazz from the boogie-woogie and swing of the 1930s, through bebop, funk, and fusion, to the eclectic mix Blue Note releases today, this landmark publication tells the story of… [more below]
- Author: Havers, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0500296510
- Language: English
