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  • Donald Clarke The best jazz biographies & autobiographies (from a jazz lover) Book cover of Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz Book cover of Life In E-Flat: The Autobiography of Phil Woods Book cover of Wail: The Life of Bud Powell Book cover of Hear Me Talkin' to Ya Book cover of Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf
  • Dennis McNally The best books about jazz and the story it tells about America Book cover of Blues People: Negro Music in White America Book cover of In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz Book cover of Miles: The Autobiography Book cover of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Book cover of The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
  • Jeff Stookey The best books about 1920s Chicago jazz musicians Book cover of Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz Book cover of We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz Book cover of Remembering Bix: A Memoir Of The Jazz Age Book cover of Really the Blues Book cover of The Stardust Road
  • Jeb Patton The best books for playing jazz tunes and standards on the piano Book cover of K.D. 30 Compositions Book cover of Johnny Mandel Songbook: The Shadow of Your Smile and Other Great Songs Book cover of Thelonious Monk - Intermediate Piano Solos Book cover of The Standards Real Book, C Version Book cover of Dick Hyman's Professional Chord Changes and Substitutions for 100 Tunes Every Musician Should Know
  • Paul Austerlitz The best scholarly books on jazz Book cover of Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction Book cover of John Coltrane: His Life and Music Book cover of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Book cover of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music Book cover of Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
  • Lilian Terry The best books to welcome you to the magical world of jazz Book cover of Music is My Mistress Book cover of The Music of Black Americans: A History Book cover of To Be, or Not... to Bop Book cover of In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz Book cover of Aux Frontières du Jazz
  • Philip Watson The best books about jazz (and a whole lot more) Book cover of But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz Book cover of Coming Through Slaughter Book cover of Forces in Motion: Anthony Braxton and the Meta-Reality of Creative Music: Interviews and Tour Notes, England 1985 Book cover of Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus Book cover of The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music
  • David W. Stowe The best books on the social history of jazz Book cover of Stomping the Blues Book cover of Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation Book cover of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times Book cover of Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra Book cover of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution
  • Richard Sussman The best books on composing & arranging for jazz ensembles and film scoring Book cover of The Contemporary Arranger Book cover of Inside the Score Book cover of The Complete Arranger Book cover of From Score to Screen: Sequencers, Scores, & Second Thoughts the New Film Scoring Process Book cover of On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring
  • James Kaplan The best books about jazz through the stories of jazz musicians Book cover of Miles: The Autobiography Book cover of To Be, or Not... to Bop Book cover of What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist (Studies in Jazz) Book cover of Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes Book cover of Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
  • Paul Steinbeck The best books about creative music Book cover of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music Book cover of New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique Book cover of The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 Book cover of The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now Book cover of The Mandorla Letters: For the Hopeful
  • Paul Alexander The best jazz books about people important to Billie Holiday Book cover of Lester Leaps in: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young Book cover of What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years Book cover of Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC Book cover of The Street That Never Slept: New York's Fabled 52nd Street Book cover of From Satchmo To Miles
  • Charles Hersch The best books on jazz’s connection to democracy Book cover of Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music Book cover of Swing Shift: All-Girl Bands of the 1940s Book cover of Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction Book cover of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness Book cover of Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
  • Melora Fern The best 1920s historical fiction not about flappers, jazz, or gin Book cover of The Paying Guests Book cover of The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club Book cover of The Masterpiece Book cover of The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights Book cover of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Gary Golio The best picture books that sing! Book cover of When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson Book cover of Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum Book cover of Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist Book cover of Stand Up and Sing!: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice Book cover of Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
  • Sammy Stein The best books on female musicians Book cover of This Woman's Work: Essays on Music Book cover of Jazz: A People's Music Book cover of Free Jazz Book cover of The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization Book cover of The Chronicle of Jazz
  • Bill Bruford The best books on why drummers do what they do Book cover of Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit Book cover of Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, Book & Online Audio Book cover of Traps, the Drum Wonder: The Life of Buddy Rich Book cover of Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation Book cover of Six Days at Ronnie Scott's: Billy Cobham on Jazz Fusion and the Act of Creation
  • Tessa Floreano The best historical novels featuring Jazz Age mysteries by the sea Book cover of Mystery by the Sea Book cover of The Saltwater Murder Book cover of The Moonlit Murders Book cover of Death in Daylesford Book cover of Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage: A True Story of Murder in San Diego's Jazz Age
  • Ethan D. Bryan The best memoirs that inspire you to live a great story Book cover of The Sound of Life's Unspeakable Beauty Book cover of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story Book cover of The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America Book cover of Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Book cover of The Echo Within: Finding Your True Calling
  • Jordan Dotson The best fiction about musicians with otherworldly talent Book cover of The Ground Beneath Her Feet Book cover of Do Not Say We Have Nothing Book cover of Coming Through Slaughter Book cover of Utopia Avenue Book cover of Bel Canto
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