Jazz
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Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life
$19.99 Add to cartExperience the inspiration and joy of creation and performance in Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life, an intimate portrait of a unique artist and his audience. Set in the studio, on the stage, and … [more below]
- Author: Marsalis, Wynton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0306811278
- Language: English
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
$27.00 Add to cart“Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I’ve read.” –Richard Brody, The New Yorker
When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording studio in November 193- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107968
- Language: English
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
$44.93 Add to cart“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theori… [more below]
- Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
- Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1478010878
- Language: English
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Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott Lafaro Volume 4
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009.
Selected for “The Best of the Best” from University Presses, ALA Conference, 2010.
Winner of the 2010 Associat… [more below]- Series: North Texas Lives of Musician #4
- Author: Lafaro-Fernández, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1574415751
- Language: English
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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
$17.95 Add to cartAn illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics–everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism–from the personal journals of Sonny R… [more below]
- Author: Rollins, Sonny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378264
- 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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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz–Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie–who, born
- Author: Tye, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 035838043X
- Language: English
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel
$24.99 Add to cartImmerse yourself in the vibrant world of jazz with Ella Fitzgerald: the official graphic novel, capturing her life, music, and indomitable spirit. Experience her journey from humble beginnings to beco… [more below]
- Author: Nwadiogbu, Ngozi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1970047291
- Language: English
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Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
$25.95 Add to cartConsidered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn…. [more below]
- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1478008415
- Language: English
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Getting Into Gypsy Jazz Guitar
$24.99 Add to cartThis book focuses on the key elements of the Django Reinhardt Gypsy jazz orjazz Manouche guitar style. The information revealed here was gleaned from years of experience jamming with French Gypsies an… [more below]
- Author: Stephane Wrembel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0786690445
- Language: English
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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz–Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie–who, born
- Author: Tye, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0063444860
- Language: English
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Peter Br?tzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation
$18.95 Add to cartExplores the heroic life and revolutionary music of the pioneering German saxophonist, and the radical social and political convictions that informed them.
Peter Br?tzmann is the first ever, full-lengt… [more below]- Author: Spicer, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1915672406
- Language: English
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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
$22.99 Add to cartElla Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of
- Author: Tick, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105224
- 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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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
$20.00 Add to cartThe National Bestseller – One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune‘s Best Books of the Year
“A superb book…[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his mo- Author: Kaplan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0525561021
- Language: English
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Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal
$60.00 Add to cart- Author: Coltrane, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1636811566
- Language: English
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Nights at the Red Steinway: Adventures in Jazz Piano, from the Wall Street Journal and Elsewhere
$34.95 Read moreThrough curated essays, readers will experience a deeply personal and engaging survey of key figures in jazz in the book that Publishers Weekly calls “a cheerful celebration of an uniquely American mu
- Author: Friedwald, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084127
- 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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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
$18.99 Add to cart“In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who’d s… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 22 1986
- ISBN10: 0306802767
- Language: English
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Who Was Duke Ellington?
$6.99 Add to cartHow did a working-class young man from Washington, DC, turn the music world on its head and become the “Master Of Jazz”? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library!
A pivotal fixture of the Harle- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Payne, M. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 039953962X
- Language: English
