Jazz Biography
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The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
by Jeffrey Magee  Publisher Comments If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of Henderson's musical career, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created...
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Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie
by Donald Maggin Publisher Comments Dizzy Gillespie has secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of music. But he was much more than that. As one of the primary creators of the bebop and Afro-Cuban revolutions, he twice...
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Duke Ellington and His World: A Biography
by A H Lawrence Publisher Comments Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. The first biography of the composer written by a fellow musician and African-American, the book...
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Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
by Quincy Jones Publisher Comments Prodigiously talented and stunningly protean, Quincy Jones has led one of the most musically influential American lives of this century. In Q, he finally tells it all, from the glamour and string of glittering achievements to the private pain, aided by...
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Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper
by Art Pepper Publisher Comments Art Pepper (1925–1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book—it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all...
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Strange Fruit Billie Holiday Cafe Societ
by David Margolick 
Publisher Comments From four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee David Margolick, STRANGE FRUIT explores the story of the memorable civil rights ballad made famous by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. The song's powerful, evocative lyrics-written by a Jewish communist...
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I Put a Spell on You (03 Edition)
by Nina Simone Publisher Comments A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race relations in America. She struck a chord with bluesy jazz ballads like "Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and powerful protest songs such as...
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Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo
by Michael Cogswell Publisher Comments One of the most well-known and loved musicians of all time, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong is an American jazz legend. Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo offers an intimate, backstage look at the legendary trumpeter through never before published...
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Walking with Legends: Barry Martyn's New Orleans Jazz Odyssey
by Mick Burns Synopsis Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans...
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Nat King Cole
by Daniel Mark Epstein Publisher Comments The first major biography of the great jazz pianist and singer, written with the full cooperation of his family. When he died in 1965, at age forty-five, Nat King Cole was already a musical legend. As famous as Frank Sinatra, he had sold more records...
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A Thousand Honey Creeks Later: My Life in Music from Basie to Motownand Beyond (Music/Culture)
by Preston Love Synopsis The rise of jazz and Motown seen through the eyes of a premier African American performer....
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
by Ashley Kahn
Publisher Comments Jazz musicians call it The Bible. Critics call it the one jazz album every fan must own. Forty-one years since its recording in 1959, it has sold millions worldwide and sits near the top of any list of most important records of the century. How did two...
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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...
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Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus
by Charles Mingus
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Music of the African Diaspora #5: Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West
by Philip Pastras Publisher Comments When Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling a golden age, a lost...
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Miles and Me (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)
by Quincy Troupe Publisher Comments Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal...
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Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael
by Richard M Sudhalter Publisher Comments Georgia on My Mind, Rockin' Chair, Skylark, Lazybones, and of course the incomparable Star Dust--who else could have composed these classic American songs but Hoagy Carmichael? He remains, for millions, the voice of heartland America, eternal...
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House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
by Ashley Kahn Synopsis Following the path of its star musician John Coltrane, Impulse Records cut a creative swath through the 1960s and 1970s. This volume tells the story of the label, balancing tales of individual passion, artistic vision, and commercial motivation--with...
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Chet Baker: As Though I Had Wings
by Chet Baker Publisher Comments The beloved yet infamous Chet Baker—trumpeter, crooner, junkie, and doomed James Dean-like icon of 1950s jazz—has always projected an air of mystery (and even more so, perhaps, in the years since his death in the late 1980s). In these...
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Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend
by Jean Pierre Lion Synopsis Bix Beiderbecke is considered the #1 jazz legend by many aficionados, and this will be the only biography in print in English. Organized chronologically, this book includes previously unpublished photographs and letters....
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