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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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The Cover Art of Blue Note Records: The Collection by Graham Marsh Publisher Comments With over 400 of the best covers in the record label's history, The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is an essential collection for every jazz fan. This new edition gathers the entirety of the two original volumes published nearly two decades ago; every... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) by Robin D.g Kelley Publisher Comments In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.72 New - Hardcover
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Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins Publisher Comments Already a jazz classic, Gary Giddins' Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains no less than 78 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank Sinatra's... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Faces in the Crowd: Musicians, Writers, Actors and Filmmakers by Gary Giddins Publisher Comments In Faces in the Crowd Gary Giddins explores the achievements of thirty-seven artists, ranging from Irving Berlin to Spike Lee, Billie Holiday to Kay Starr, Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, Elias Canetti to Philip Roth. He shows how Jack Benny... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Trade Paper
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But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz by Geoff Dyer List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans by Keith Spera Publisher Comments The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the citys vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith Speras intimately reported Groove Interrupted, Aaron Neville returns to New Orleans for the first... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Jazz for Dummies (2ND 06 Edition) by Dirk Sutro Publisher Comments Includes a list of more than 100 recordings for your jazz collection The fun and easy way to explore the world of jazz Jazz is America's greatest music, but with over a century's worth of styles and artists, where do you begin? Relax! This hep cat's... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Paul F. Berliner Publisher Comments A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers by Will Friedwald Publisher Comments Will Friedwald's illuminating, opinionated essays--provocative, funny, and personal--on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Masters of Jazz Guitar: The Story of the Players and Their Music with CD (Audio) by Charles Alexander Publisher Comments The jazz guitar and its master players have had vast influence in a genre of uniquely provocative 20th century music. Written by some of the world's foremost jazz authorities and illustrated with more than 200 gorgeous photographs, this book spotlights... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally Publisher Comments A comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band by Lawrence Gushee Publisher Comments Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz by Benjamin Cawthra Publisher Comments Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much as... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation by Gary Giddins Publisher Comments In a companion to his collections Riding on a Blue Note and Faces in the Crowd, Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that provide an essential guide to the jazz world. Moving with ease from sweeping surveys of jazz history to precise, vivid... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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As though I had wings :the lost memoir by Chet Baker Publisher Comments A startling literary find: the writings and musings of the late jazz great Chet Baker rediscovered Chet Baker, legendary trumpeter and singer, dominated the jazz scene of the 1950s. His career began in army bands, but soon enough fate brought him... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (Da Capo Paperback) by George T. Simon Publisher Comments Moonlight Serenade, Sunrise Serenade, Little Brown Jug, In the Mood... These and other memorable tunes endeared Glenn Miller to millions in the Swing Era and all who recall those times. After playing trombone and arranging for leading orchestras of the... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris by Jeffrey H. Jackson Publisher Comments Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls... (read more) List Price $84.95 Your price: $78.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater Publisher Comments When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the vast caf�s reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music... (read more) Your price: $35.50 New - Trade Paper
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Freedom, Rhythm and Sound by Gilles Peterson Publisher Comments The momentum of the 1960s civil rights movement and the explosion of Rock music and the underground press in that decade impacted Jazz in amazing ways, both musically and culturally. Years before Punk, musicians like John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Sun... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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