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All Music Guide to Jazzby Chris Woodstra, Vladimir Bogdanov, Michael ErlewineISBN 0879304073 (0-87930-407-3)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Music Guide to Jazz'Book summary:The definitive reference on jazz recordings and performers, All Music Guide to Jazz is designed for devoted fans and newcomers alike, identifying thousands of topnotch CDs, albums, and tapes in all jazz styles. Alphabetized biographical profiles introduce readers to 1,300 jazz artists and their key recordings selected and reviewed by top critics. 30 charts. [via]
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All Music Guide to Jazz: The Best Cd'S, Albums & Tapesby Ron WynnISBN 0879303085 (0-87930-308-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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All Music Guide to Jazz : The Definitive Guide to Jazzby Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas ErlewineISBN 087930717X (0-87930-717-X)
Softcover, Leonard Corporation, Hal
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All Music Guide to Jazz: The Experts' Guide to the Best Jazz Recordingsby Chris Woodstra, Vladimir Bogdanov, Scott YanowISBN 0879305304 (0-87930-530-4)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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As Serious As Your Life: The Story of the New Jazzby Valerie WilmerISBN 1852422343 (1-85242-234-3)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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As Serious As Your Life: John Coltrane and Beyondby Valerie WilmerISBN 1852427302 (1-85242-730-2)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As Serious As Your Life: John Coltrane and Beyond'Book summary:Reissue of a jazz classic with photos by the author who is a well known photographer.[via]More editions of As Serious As Your Life: John Coltrane and Beyond:
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Beneath the Underdogby Charles MingusISBN 0140038809 (0-14-003880-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beneath the Underdog'Book summary:From the shabby roadhouses to fabulous estates, from the psychiatric wards of Bellevue to worlds of mysticism and solitude, these are the moving memoirs of the great jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. [via]
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Beneath the Underdog: His World As Composed by Mingusby Charles Mingus, Nel KingISBN 0679737618 (0-679-73761-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beneath the Underdog: His World As Composed by Mingus'Book summary:A wild, lyrical, and anguished autobiography, in which Charles Mingus pays short shrift to the facts but plunges to the very bottom of his psyche, coming up for air only when it pleases him. He takes the reader through his childhood in Watts, his musical education by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker, and his prodigious appetites--intellectual, culinary, and sexual. The book is a jumble, but a glorious one, by a certified American genius. [via]
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Blue Note Records: The Biographyby Richard CookISBN 1932112278 (1-932112-27-8)
Softcover, Justin Charles & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Note Records: The Biography'Book summary:Blue Note Records is more than just a label. It is the heart of jazz. This book, chronicles the life of the most famous and influential jazz label of them all. [via]
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Blues People: Negro Music in White Americaby Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 068818474X (0-688-18474-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Bud, Not Buddyby Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0440413281 (0-440-41328-1)
Softcover, Yearling Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bud, Not Buddy'Book summary:"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father.
Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes [via]
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Bud, Not Buddyby Not AvailableISBN 043940200X (0-439-40200-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bud, Not Buddy'Book summary:"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father.
Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes [via]
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But Beautifulby Geoff DyerISBN 0865475083 (0-86547-508-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'But Beautiful'Book summary:In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.[via] -
Chasin' the Trane: The Music and Mystique of John Coltraneby J.C. ThomasISBN 0306800438 (0-306-80043-8)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chasin' the Trane: The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane'Book summary:Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late 50s and 60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influenced both rock stars and classical musicians. There was a mystical quality, a profound melancholy emanating from this quiet, self-contained man that moved listenerssome of whom knew little about music but heard something beyond musics boundaries in the sounds his saxophone created. J. C. Thomas traces John Coltranes life and career from his North Carolina childhood through his apprenticeship with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis, to its culmination in the saxophonists classic quartet that played to steadily increasing audiences throughout America, Europe, and Japan.The author has drawn on the recollections of the people who knew Coltrane bestboyhood friends, band members like Elvin Jones, spiritual mentors like Ravi Shankar, and the women who loved him. Chasin the Trane is the story of a man who struggled against drug addiction, studied African and Eastern music and philosophy, admired both Einsteins expanding universe and the shimmering sounds a harp makes, and left behind the enduring legacy of a master musician who was also a beautiful man.[via]More editions of Chasin' the Trane: The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane:
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Coming Through Slaughterby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679767851 (0-679-76785-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming Through Slaughter'Book summary:Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place.
In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre. [via] -
Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxtonby Graham Lock, Nick WhiteISBN 0306803429 (0-306-80342-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The History of Jazzby Ted GioiaISBN 019512653X (0-19-512653-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Jazz'Book summary:Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe "King" Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, giving flower to a thousand different forms--swing, bebop, cool jazz, jazz-rock fusion--and a thousand great musicians. Now, in The History of Jazz, Ted Gioia tells the story of this music as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved.
Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton ("the world's greatest hot tune writer"), Louis Armstrong (whose O-keh recordings of the mid-1920s still stand as the most significant body of work that jazz has produced), Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker's surgical precision of attack, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the Knitting Factory. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. Gioia also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born. He shows for instance how the development of technology helped promote the growth of jazz--how ragtime blossomed hand-in-hand with the spread of parlor and player pianos, and how jazz rode the growing popularity of the record industry in the 1920s. We also discover how bebop grew out of the racial unrest of the 1940s and '50s, when black players, no longer content with being "entertainers," wanted to be recognized as practitioners of a serious musical form.
Jazz is a chameleon art, delighting us with the ease and rapidity with which it changes colors. Now, in Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz, we have at last a book that captures all these colors on one glorious palate. Knowledgeable, vibrant, and comprehensive, it is among the small group of books that can truly be called classics of jazz literature. [via]More editions of The History of Jazz:
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400076218 (1-4000-7621-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.
Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."
In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]
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- Jazz: ISBN 0451177800 (0-451-17780-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Jazz: ISBN 0679411674 (0-679-41167-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Jazz: ISBN 0452269652 (0-452-26965-2)
Softcover, Plume - Jazz: ISBN 051713764X (0-517-13764-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Jazz: ISBN 0785719857 (0-7857-1985-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Jazz: ISBN 0816156247 (0-8161-5624-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Jazz: ISBN 1400076218 (1-4000-7621-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Jazz: ISBN 0451177800 (0-451-17780-0)
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Jazz: A History of America's Musicby Geoffrey C. WardISBN 0679765395 (0-679-76539-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz: A History of America's Music'Book summary:First off, let's get the kudos down: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns deserve far more than simple gratitude for bringing jazz to the limelight with this lavishly illustrated volume. The book features among its 500-plus pictures many of the previously unseen shots of musicians and venues glimpsed in Burns's 10-part documentary, Jazz. (See our Ken Burns Jazz Store for the lowdown on the series.) Jazz: An Illustrated History follows the film episode by episode, and it's filled with rich historical detail in the early chapters. Like the series, however, the book trails off after a certain point in chronicling jazz's history. It gives background aplenty on early New Orleans music, the migration of jazz up the Mississippi to major urban centers, and the developments of swing and bebop. After bebop, the history gets a bit perfunctory. Dozens of major figures get mere sidebar coverage. Little is said of substance on Latin or Brazilian jazz, European contributions to the music, fusion, or umpteen smaller deviations from the mainstream. There are wonderful essays that highlight elements of jazz culture, particularly Gerald Early's consideration of race and white musicians in jazz and Gary Giddins's five-page essay on avant jazz. And there are fine sidebars as well. But developments during and after the 1960s are dealt with primarily in impressionistic guest essays rather than detail-oriented historical narrative. It is, of course, difficult to capture all jazz history in any single volume. So perhaps this ought to have been called Jazz: A Historical Appreciation, since the hundreds of images certainly create an intense sense of the music's milieu. --Andrew Bartlett [via]
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Jazzby Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley, Rough Guides StaffISBN 1843532565 (1-84353-256-5)
Softcover, Rough Guides, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:The third edition of the Rough Guide to Jazz has over 2,100 critical biographies, ranging from greats like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to rising stars like Stacey Kent and Jamie Cullum. As well as outlining every artist''s career, each entry concludes with recommendations of the best of their recordings on CD. The guide includes many illustrations by top jazz photographers. [via]
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The Jazz Book: From New Orleans to Rock and Free Jazzby Joachim-Ernst BerendtISBN 0882080288 (0-88208-028-8)
Softcover
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The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyondby Joachim E. BerendtISBN 0882081411 (0-88208-141-1)
Softcover, L. Hill
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The Jazz Book : From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyondby Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Gunther HuesmannISBN 1556520980 (1-55652-098-0)
Softcover, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
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Jazz Stylesby Mark C. GridleyISBN 0135098777 (0-13-509877-7)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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Jazz Styles: History & Analysisby Mark C. GridleyISBN 013021227X (0-13-021227-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz Styles: History & Analysis'Book summary:For undergraduate courses in Jazz History, Jazz Survey, Evolution of Jazz, Introduction to Jazz, and Jazz Appreciation. America's most widely used introduction to jazz, it teaches the chronology of jazz by showing students how to listen and what to notice in each style. Though originally conceived for nonmusicians and written at a college freshmen reading level, Jazz Styles also has been widely adopted in courses for musicians because of its point-by-point specification of each style's musical characteristics and its technical appendix. The text helps students hear how the styles differ and why the top names are important. The book's listening guides offer in-depth analysis for 38 historic recordings contained on the 2CD Jazz Classics collection. [via]
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- Jazz Styles: History & Analysis: ISBN 0131931156 (0-13-193115-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Jazz Styles: History & Analysis: ISBN 0130992828 (0-13-099282-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Jazz Styles: History & Analysis: ISBN 0131022458 (0-13-102245-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Jazz Styles: History & Analysis: ISBN 0131759779 (0-13-175977-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Jazz Styles : History and Analysis: ISBN 0131896644 (0-13-189664-4)
Softcover, Pearson Education Canada - Jazz Styles: History & Analysis: ISBN 0132609851 (0-13-260985-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Jazz Styles: History & Analysis: ISBN 0135092175 (0-13-509217-5)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall - Jazz Styles: History & Analysis: ISBN 013021227X (0-13-021227-X)
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- Jazz Styles: History & Analysis: ISBN 0131931156 (0-13-193115-6)
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Jazz: The Essential Companion to Artists and Albumsby Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian PriestlyISBN 1858281377 (1-85828-137-7)
Softcover, Rough Guides, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz: The Essential Companion to Artists and Albums'Book summary:Written by musicians, Jazz: The Rough Guide contains more than 1,600 biographies, from Ahmed Abdul-Malik (Brooklyn bass and oud player, 1927 to 1993, who played with Thelonious Monk, Herbie Mann, and Coltrane) to Axel Zwingenberger (German boogie- woogie pianist, born 1955, played with Joe Newman, Joe Turner, and Sippie Wallace, and has helped revitalize jazz piano). In addition to profiling a broad spectrum of jazz musicians (both famous and lesser-known composers and performers), it clarifies crucial jazz issues, gives historical perspective, and also serves as a buyer's guide, with discographies and pithy reviews of representative recordings.
The Guide's alphabetical, encyclopedic organization makes it useful as a dependable jazz reference, and it's wonderfully browsable, too, illustrated with fine classic black-and-white photographs (of performers such as Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers) and beautifully written. A good starter text for jazz neophytes, the CD suggestions are a great help toward custom- building your jazz library. There's also a fine glossary that explains a cappella and acid jazz, Afro-Latin, airshot, and atonality. It's a safe source of education if you're ignorant about ballads, bebop, or B-flat. It's useful for learning about major jazz styles (Chicago, Dixieland, and dirty, Kansas City, ragtime, and scat), plus musical concepts such as harmony, improvisation, and tempo. Concise, accessible, and addictively readable, Jazz: The Rough Guide is a great introduction to the world of jazz. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Kind of Blueby Ashley Kahn, Jimmy CobbISBN 0306809869 (0-306-80986-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Kind of Blue : The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpieceby Ashley Kahn, Jimmy CobbISBN 0306810670 (0-306-81067-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Louis Armstrongby Laurence BergreenISBN 0767901568 (0-7679-0156-8)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis Armstrong'Book summary:The author of a terrific Irving Berlin biography (As Thousands Cheer), Laurence Bergreen produces a similarly astute character analysis of the renowned trumpet player, too often viewed as a musical genius but an Uncle Tom in race relations. On the contrary, Bergreen shows, Louis Armstrong (1901-71) was that rarest of human beings, someone who could respond to injustice with a determination to overcome that never included bitterness. Slightly stronger on milieu than music, Bergreen conveys such zest for the material and such obvious fondness for Armstrong that his book is a delight to read. [via]
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Louis Armstrong : An Extravagant Lifeby Laurence BergreenISBN 0553067680 (0-553-06768-0)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis Armstrong : An Extravagant Life'Book summary:The author of a terrific Irving Berlin biography (As Thousands Cheer), Laurence Bergreen produces a similarly astute character analysis of the renowned trumpet player, too often viewed as a musical genius but an Uncle Tom in race relations. On the contrary, Bergreen shows, Louis Armstrong (1901-71) was that rarest of human beings, someone who could respond to injustice with a determination to overcome that never included bitterness. Slightly stronger on milieu than music, Bergreen conveys such zest for the material and such obvious fondness for Armstrong that his book is a delight to read. [via]
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Albumby Ashley KahnISBN 0142003522 (0-14-200352-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album'Book summary:Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn tells the story of the genesis, creation, and aftermath of this classic recording. Featuring interviews with more than one hundred musicians, producers, friends, and family members; unpublished interviews with Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison; and scores of never-before-seen photographs, A Love Supreme balances biography, cultural context, and musical analysis in a passionate and revealing portrait.[via]More editions of A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album:
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The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpieceby Eric NisensonISBN 031228408X (0-312-28408-X)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece'Book summary:From the moment it was recorded, more than forty years ago, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was hailed as a jazz classic. To this day, it remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, embraced by fans of all music genres. The album represented a true watershed moment in jazz history, and helped to usher in the first great jazz revolution since bebop.[via]
The Making of Kind of Blue is an exhaustively researched examination of how this masterpiece was born. Recorded with pianist Bill Evans; tenor saxophonist John Coltrane; composer/theorist George Russell; and Miles himself, the album represented a fortuitous conflation of some of the real giants of the jazz world, at a time when they were at the top of their musical game. The end result was a recording that would forever change the face of American music
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Through extensive interview and access to rare recordings, Eric Nisenson pieced together the whole story of this miraculous session, laying bare the genius of Miles Davis, other musicians, and the heart of jazz itself.More editions of The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece:
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Miles: The Autobiographyby Miles DavisISBN 0671725823 (0-671-72582-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miles: The Autobiography'Book summary:Here is the outspoken autobiography of a musical legend, one of the most compelling and important cultural figures of our time, describing Davis's mysterious five-year layoff and his triumphant return to music. 32 pages of black-and-white photos. [via]
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Miles Davis: The Definitive Biographyby Ian CarrISBN 1560259671 (1-56025-967-1)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography'Book summary:Ian Carr's book is the perfect counterpoint and corrective to Miles Davis's own brilliant but vitriolic autobiography, providing a balanced portrait of one of the undisputed cultural icons of the 20th century. Carr has talked with the people who knew the man and his music best; and for this edition, updated since Davis's death, he has conducted new interviews with a number of jazz greats, including Ron Carter, Max Roach, and John Scofield.
From the early New York apprenticeship with Charlie Parker, through Davis's drug addiction of the early 1950s, to the years (1954-1960) during which he signed with Columbia and recorded masterpieces with John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, and Cannonball Adderly, Carr sheds new light on Davis's life and career. His reclusive period (1975-1980) is explored with firsthand accounts of his descent back into addiction as is his dramatic return to life and music. [via]
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- Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography: ISBN 1560252413 (1-56025-241-3)
Softcover, Pgw - Miles Davis: A Biography: ISBN 0688021980 (0-688-02198-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Miles Davis: ISBN 068801321X (0-688-01321-X)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co - Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography: ISBN 1560259671 (1-56025-967-1)
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- Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography: ISBN 1560252413 (1-56025-241-3)
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl . While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as an American classic. With On the Road , Kerouac discovered his voice and his true subject-the search for a place as an outsider in America. On the Road swings to the rhythms of fifties underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns, and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. "Life is great, and few can put the zest and wonder and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac." -Luther Nichols, San Francisco Examiner "Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, The Sun Also Rises came to be regarded as the testament of the Lost Generation, so it seems certain that On the Road will come to be known as that of the Beat Generation." -Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times @Didn'tTypeOnTP! For TWITTERATURE of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, please see On the Road by Jack Kerouac. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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- On the Road: ISBN 0140283293 (0-14-028329-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0142437255 (0-14-243725-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0143036386 (0-14-303638-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0670874787 (0-670-87478-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0899661343 (0-89966-134-3)
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Hardcover, Penguin USA - On the Road: ISBN 0785796320 (0-7857-9632-0)
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- On the Road: ISBN 0140283293 (0-14-028329-3)
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The Penguin Guide To Jazz On Cdby Richard Cook, Brian MortonISBN 0141014164 (0-14-101416-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Guide To Jazz On Cd'Book summary:This work is a leading guide to recorded jazz, full of information and often trenchant criticism. For this edition, Richard Cook and Brian Morton have reassessed each artist's entry and updated the text to incorporate thousands of additional CDs. The book contains artist biographies, full line-ups, recording information along with details of labels and catalogue numbers, authoritative critical ratings, and full index of artists. The book should be of interest to aficionados and jazz novices alike. [via]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Cd, Lp and Cassetteby Richard Cook, Brian MortonISBN 0140179496 (0-14-017949-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Cd, Lp and Cassette'Book summary:Where can you find the definitive Miles Davis collection? Which Benny Goodman recordings are the most sought after? For what label did Jack Teagarden lay down his finest work? All the answers can be found in this definitive guide to jazz recordings from Dixieland, through Bebop, to the latest young stars. Designed as a counterpart to Ivan March's established classical music guides, it features critical assessments, musical and biographical details, full line-up details, label/number details, an authoritative rating system, and a special section for anthologies and "Various Artists" collections. [via]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Compact Discby Richard Cook, Brian MortonISBN 014051368X (0-14-051368-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Compact Disc'Book summary:What was the line-up at John Coltrane's Village Vanguard sessions? What is John Zorn's most important contribution to contemporary jazz? When was Jelly Roll Morton recorded for the Library of Congress? Where can you find a complete set of Ella Fitzgerald's many songbook recordings? Leading critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton answer these and a myriad other questions in The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD -- the most comprehensive critical guide to jazz recordings available. Updated with revised artists' entries and thousands of additional CDs, the fourth edition includes:
-- listings for over 10,000 discs
-- musical and biographical details
-- full line-ups
-- accurate label and number details
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordingsby Brian Morton, Richard CookISBN 0141023279 (0-14-102327-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'Book summary:The leading guide to recorded jazz, now extensively revised
Music fans have been turning to this established reference through seven editions as a source of intelligent and insightful criticism. Fully updated to incorporate thousands of additional recordings, the eighth edition features artist biographies, detailed recording information with labels and catalog numbers, reliable and authoritative ratings, the authors' personal selection of the essential recordings for every collection, an index of artists, and more. [via]More editions of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings:
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Really the Bluesby Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard WolfeISBN 0806512059 (0-8065-1205-9)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Really the Blues'Book summary:"Really The Blues" is the story of a white kid who fell in love with black culture, learning to blow clarinet in the reform schools, brothels and honky-tonks of his youth. Drawn by the revelation of the blues, he followed the music along the jazz avenues of Chicago, New Orleans, and New York, and into the heart of America's soul. Told in the jive lingo of the underground's inner circle, this classic is an unforgettable chronicle of street life, smoky clubs, roadhouse dances, and reefer culture.
First published in 1946, Really the Blues was a rousing wake-up call to alienated young whites to explore black culture and the world of jazz, the first music America could call its own. Their spiritual godfather was Mezzrow, jazz cat, bootlegger, and peddler of the finest gauge in Harlem. Above all, Mezz championed the abandon available to those willing to lose their blues.
Citadel Underground's edition of Really the Blues features a new introduction by Barry Gifford, author of the novel Wild at Heart and co-author of Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack's Kerouac.
"Really the Blues, read at the counter of the counter of the Columbia U Bookstore in mid-forties, was for me the first signal into white culture of the underground black, hip culture that preexisted before ny own generation". -- Allen Ginsberg
"Milton Mezzrow was, is and shall always be the single most important figure in the history of marijuana in America. Like Leary, the Mezz turned on a new generation to a new drug...Mezzrow was 1) the first white Negro, 2) the Johnny Apleseed of weed, 3) the author of a great American autobiography, Really the Blues, the finest eyewitness account of American counterculture everpublished. The book is, likewise, the master-piece of the counterculture's most characteristics literary medium: the slang-laced, jazz-enrhythmed, long-breathed and rhapsodic street rap and rave-up". -- Albert Goldman
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The Rough Guide to Jazzby Rough GuidesISBN 1858285283 (1-85828-528-3)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rough Guide to Jazz'Book summary:The Rough Guide to Jazz is the essential reference tool to jazz artists and recordings, from world renowned legends and major musical styles to more obscure, yet influential artists and lesser-known movements. Including more than 1600 biographies and almost 3000 recommendations of recordings on CD and vinyl, this concise volume covers jazz music from its very roots up to the present day. Written in Rough Guides' trademark readable, entertaining style and including photos of many of the artists, Jazz is the most complete and dependable directory to the artists and albums. [via]
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Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepperby Art Pepper, Laurie PepperISBN 1841950645 (1-84195-064-5)
Hardcover, Mojo Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper'Book summary:Art Pepper (19251982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz bookit is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is updated with an extensive afterword by Laurie Pepper covering Art Peppers last years, and a complete and up-to-date discography by Todd Selbert.[via]More editions of Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper:
Visions of Jazz: The First Centuryby Gary GiddinsISBN 0195132416 (0-19-513241-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions of Jazz: The First Century'Book summary:As Gary Giddins makes clear in his introduction to Visions of Jazz, he's not attempting to draw a canonical line in the sand: "Everyone has his or her vision of jazz, and this is mine." Modesty aside, though, it's hard to imagine a critic with a more encyclopedic grasp of detail, or a more lucid, funny, and appropriately musical style. Weighing in at almost 700 pages, the magnificent Visions of Jazz consists of 70 profiles, beginning with a dual portrait of blackface pioneers Bert Williams and Al Jolson and concluding with the klezmer-infatuated clarinetist Don Byron. These sketches mingle musical, biographical, and cultural insights--indeed, one of Giddins's great gifts is to break down the very distinction between such categories. Yet Giddins is hardly an unhinged generalizer, and he loves to zero in on a particular chorus and disclose its charms on a bar-by-bar basis. The pinnacle of this musical microscopy occurs in his Dizzy Gillespie essay, with an almost biblical exegesis of 64 measures from the 1989 version of "Salt Peanuts." But even in these nuts-and-bolts passages, Giddins is always accessible, combining precisely the right proportions of edification and old-fashioned entertainment. The only problem with Visions of Jazz, in fact, is that it makes you so itchy and impatient to hear the music. Fortunately, Giddins has taken care of the problem by curating a companion disc called (you guessed it) Visions of Jazz. This isn't, it should be said, a predictable journey from one jazz milestone to the next. Instead he's assembled a delightfully idiosyncratic anthology, which testifies to the music's irresistible pulse and all-American parentage. --James Marcus [via]
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What Jazz Is: An Insider's Guide to Understanding and Listening to Jazzby Jonny KingISBN 0802713289 (0-8027-1328-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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What Jazz Is : Listening and Hearing with Soulby Jonny KingISBN 0802775195 (0-8027-7519-5)
Softcover, Walker & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Jazz Is : Listening and Hearing with Soul'Book summary:[via]"You have to talk about how jazz is like a language. Musical improvisation can put people at a distance, primarily because of jazz's limited exposure. When people realize that everyone who creates a sentence is improvising within basic rules, making statements up spontaneously, the music begins to make more sense." Jonny King
Imagine you are in the audience of a jazz club. The piano player invites you up on stage to meet the musicians after the set is finished. You listen to them talkabout the tempo of the last tune, the order of songs for their next set, and the different jazz greats they admire.
What Jazz Is gives you the experience of "being there" as Jonny King takes you on stage and into the core of modern jazz. From the unique perspective of a professional jazz pianist, King explores the basic elements and language of jazz. He explains each instrument's role in locking in the tempo, establishing the harmony, and stating the melody, and he reveals the order and logic behind the seeming randomness of improvisation. Along the way, he celebrates the distinctive playing styles of such classic jazz artists as Art Blakey, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk, as well as his contemporaries, such as Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride, and Joshua Redman. Whether you are about to attend a jazz club for the first time or buy your umpteenth CD, your listening experience will be enhanced by reading this eloquent and passionate account of how jazz works and why it sizzles!More editions of What Jazz Is : Listening and Hearing with Soul:
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En el Caminoby Jack Kerouac, Martín LendínezISBN 8433920146 (84-339-2014-6)
Hardcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'En el Camino'Book summary:Este libro fue la Biblia y el manifiesto de la generacion beat y se ha convertido en una novela de culto y en un clasico de la literatura norteamericana. Se narran aqui los viajes enloquecidos, a bordo de Cadillacs prestados y Dodges desvencijados, de un mitico hipster y un narrador. Esta es la cronica de unos protagonistas que fueron en la vida real: Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg y William Burroughs. [via]
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