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Miles: The Autobiography
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Miles

By Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe ,

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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
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Blues People

By Leroi Jones ,

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Froth on the Daydream
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Froth on the Daydream

By Boris Vian , Stanley Chapman (translator) ,

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Dick Hyman's Professional Chord Changes and Substitutions for 100 Tunes Every Musician Should Know
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Dick Hyman's Professional Chord Changes and Substitutions for 100 Tunes Every Musician Should Know

By Dick Hyman ,

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The 101 Best Jazz Albums: A History of Jazz on Records
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The 101 Best Jazz Albums

By Len Lyons ,

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Improvising Jazz
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Improvising Jazz

By Jerry Coker ,

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The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
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The Freedom Principle

By John Litweiler ,

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Forces in Motion: Anthony Braxton and the Meta-Reality of Creative Music: Interviews and Tour Notes, England 1985
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Forces in Motion

By Graham Lock ,

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The Stardust Road
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The Stardust Road

By Hoagy Carmichael ,

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Hopscotch
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Hopscotch

By Julio Cortazar , Gregory Rabassa (translator) ,

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Free Jazz
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Free Jazz

By Ekkehard Jost ,

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