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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D. G. Kelley Publisher Comments The piano ain't got no wrong notes So ranted Thelonious Sphere Monk, who proved his point every time he sat down at the keyboard. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of bebop and... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover 
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Where Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments Nick Tosches spent 20 years searching for facts about Emmett Miller, the yodeling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues, and much of the popular music of the twentieth century. Starting with a handful of 78 rpm records and... (read more) List Price $25.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever by Farah Jasmin Griffin Publisher Comments When the renowned trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis chose the members of his quintet in 1955, he passed over well-known, respected saxophonists such as Sonny Rollins to pick out the young, still untested John Coltrane. What might have seemed like a... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life by Wynton Marsalis Publisher Comments In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America's greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis Publisher Comments For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (Jazz Perspectives Jazz Perspectives) by Andy Hamilton Publisher Comments “Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himself... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Eva Cassidy: Songbird: Her Story by Those Who Knew Her by Rob Burley Publisher Comments The stirring, full-color oral biography of the singer whose pure, haunting voice came to be loved by millions around the world after her tragically brief life. Eva Cassidy's albums Songbird, Live at Blues Alley, Eva By Heart, Time After Time, and Imagine... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nat King Cole by Daniel Mark Epstein Publisher Comments Written with the narrative pacing of a novel, this absorbing biography of musical legend Nat King Cole (1917-1965) traces his rise to fame, from boy-wonder jazz genius to black megastar in a racist society. Daniel Mark Epstein brings Cole and his times... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Django by Michael Dregni Publisher Comments Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Swing That Music by Louis Armstrong Publisher Comments The first published writing of the jazz giant, covering his life from his days in New Orleans through his success in Chicago and New York.. The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Louis Armstrongs Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker (Da Capo Paperback) by Robert Geor Reisner Publisher Comments For this first full-length reminiscence, Reisner interviewed eighty-one of Parker's friends, relatives, and fellow performers. From Charlie Mingus, one of the few real innovators since Bird, and Dizzy Gillespie, whom Parker once called 'the other half of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter by Michelle Mercer Publisher Comments Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter is one of the great architects of jazz, and a man whose influence will be felt by musicians and music fans for generations to come. In this first biography of Shorter, Michelle Mercer traces the amazing trajectory... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Rhythm Is Our Business: Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express (Jazz Perspectives) by Eddy Determeyer Publisher Comments In the 1930s, swing music reigned, and the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra was the hottest and hippest attraction on the black dance circuits. Known for its impeccable appearance and infectious rhythms, Lunceford's group was able to out-swing and outdraw any... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sweet Swing Blues: A Year with Wynton Marsalis and His Septet by Wynton Marsalis Synopsis An illustrated year in the life of today's premier jazz trumpeter and composer, Wynton Marsalis. By turns lyrical, down to earth, exalted, and profane, the book itself is structured like the "sweet swing blues" of the title. 180 photos.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.63 Used - Trade Paper
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Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing by Michael Dregni Publisher Comments Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Moving To Higher Ground (08 Edition) by Marsalis Publisher Comments “In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way-A Biography by Peter J Levinson Publisher Comments Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to-and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes influenced popular music for a... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday by Robert Omeally Publisher Comments "Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book", says Entertainment Weekly about this absorbing and authoritative account of the greatest jazz singer in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Music is My Mistress (Da Capo Paperback) by Duke Ellington Publisher Comments ”Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.” This is the story of Duke Ellington—the story of Jazz itself. Told in his own way, in his own words, a symphony written by the King of Jazz. His story spans and defines a... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones Publisher Comments Hettie Jones presents an intimate memoir of her life--from her middle-class Jewish family in Queens to her marriage to the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones and her search for her own artistic voice. Infused with the passion of the late 1950s and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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