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Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine Publisher Comments Endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, and others, The Jazz Theory Book presents all the information any student of jazz needs in an easy-to-understand, yet thorough, manner. For intermediate to advanced players, and written by one of... (read more) Your price: $42.00 New - Spiral/comb 
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Reel History by Stephen Farina Publisher Comments In this engaging hybrid work--a blend of oral history and graphic novel--Stephen Farina finds Juma Sultan in a local phonebook. After an initial meeting at a roadside diner, Juma takes Steve and a fellow researcher to a decrepit barn, which, amazingly... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $15.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Chronicle of Jazz by Mervyn Cooke Publisher Comments Here is the whole story of the history and the personalities that have formed this century's most exciting music, a story rich with innovation, experimentation, controversy, and emotion. Beginning at the turn of the century, The Chronicle of Jazz... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Coast to Coast: Album Cover Art from New York to Los Angeles by Graham Marsh Publisher Comments Jazz is forever associated with labels like Blue Note, Prestige, Atlantic, Contemporary, Pacific, and Riverside. Each of these companies strove to communicate the essence of its sound through album covers. Now, this captivating anthology of 400 covers... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Jumptown: The Golden Years of Portland Jazz, 1942-1957 by Robert Dietsche Publisher Comments A fascinating blend of music, politics, and social history, Jumptown sheds light on a time and place overlooked by histories of Portland and jazz. For a golden decade following World War II, jazz talent and musical activity flourished in Portland. A... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 by Sam Stephenson and W. Eugene Smith Publisher Comments In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world — his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York — to... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $28.00 Sale - Hardcover
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History of American Music #1403: Jazz by Chris Handyside Synopsis The roots of jazz run deep. This book charts the development of this uniquely American Music form from the 1600s through to the present. It also shows how social, economic, and regional factors have all helped to shape Jazz over time and, in turn, how... (read more) Your price: $32.00 New - Library Bound
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Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies (Refiguring American Music) by Nichole Rustin Publisher Comments In jazz circles, players and listeners with “big ears” hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jazz: The American Theme Song by James Lincoln Collier Publisher Comments Praised by the Washington Post as a tough, unblinked critic, James Lincoln Collier is probably the most controversial writer on jazz today. With the publication of Jazz: The American Theme Song, Collier does nothing to soften his reputation for hard... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920's by Arnold Shaw Publisher Comments F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Trade Paper
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Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader by Fred Wei-han Ho Synopsis For more than three decades, Fred Ho has been a radical artist and activist. As a composer and baritone saxophonist, he is famed for creating a new music that fuses Asian and African traditions. The influence of the Black Power and Black Arts movements... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats by Nica De Koenigswarter Publisher Comments An unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at jazz legends In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, Pannonica de Koenigswarter, known as Nica, was a constant and benevolent presence on the thriving New York jazz scene. Known as the Jazz Baroness (she was born into... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $19.95 New - Flexible
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Vocal Complete -- Female Voice Jazz Standards: Piano/Vocal Sheet Music with Orchestrated Backing Tracks, Book & 2 Enhanced CDs (Vocal Complete) by Alfred Publishing Publisher Comments Sing 16 of the world's most beloved jazz standards in the style of legendary vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Etta James, Eileen Rodgers, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, and more! This deluxe package (songbook plus two enhanced CDs... (read more) Your price: $21.99 New - Trade Paper
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Studies in Jazz #60: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke Synopsis Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination; or whether it is more properly... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover
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Sitting in: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Related Topics by Hayden Carruth Publisher Comments This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hear Me Talkin' To Ya (66 Edition) by Nat Shapiro Publisher Comments "A work of considerable substance." — The New Yorker. In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower Publisher Comments Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong is a biography in the form of an art book. It tells the story of Armstrong's life through his writings, scrapbooks, and artworks, many of which have never been published before. Armstrong was the... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz by Marqu Folley Cooper Publisher Comments Looking at both art and literature inspired by jazz, Seeing Jazz showcases the musics riotous liberatin g influence with over 100 images, including paintings, photo graphs, sculpture, multimedia works and textile art. '... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club by Kathy Sloane Publisher Comments During the 1970s, when jazz clubs all over America were folding under the onslaught of rock and roll and disco, San Francisco's Keystone Korner was an oasis for jazz musicians and patrons. Tucked next to a police station in the city's North Beach area... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Trade Paper
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Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by Chris Devito Publisher Comments Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Timess reader poll John Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and risky. Nevertheless, he persisted, and his recordings... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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