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  • Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West by Pastras, Phil
    Phil Pastras

    Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West

    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...
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  • Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles by Bryant, Clora
    Clora Bryant

    Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles

    The musical and social history of Los Angeles's black community from the 1920s through the early 1950s comes to life in this exceptional oral history collection. Through the voices of musicians who performed on L.A.'s Central Avenue during those years, a vivid picture of...
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  • The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History by Deveaux, Scott
    Scott Deveaux

    The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History

    The richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz-the birth of bebop-and shows how our contemporary ideas of this uniquely American art form flow from that pivotal moment....
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  • Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman by Firestone, Ross
    Ross Firestone

    Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman

    Before Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll, another King ruled the roost of American popular music. His name was Benny Goodman and his domain, the gilded age of Swing. Benny's concerts, records, and radio shows catapulted the hot and controversial sounds of jazz into the hearts...
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  • The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective by Jacobsen, Thomas W.
    Thomas W. Jacobsen

    The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective

    In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age." Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen,...
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  • Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation by Giddins, Gary
    Gary Giddins

    Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation

    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,...
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  • Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius - Anniversary Edition by Milkowski, Bill
    Bill Milkowski

    Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius - Anniversary Edition

    A fitting tribute to the troubled genius who revolutionized electric bass playing and bridged the gaps between jazz, R&B, rock and funk. From his early days in R&B club bands through his international stardom with fusion group Weather Report and on to his solo...
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  • Black Music: Essays by Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
    Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

    Black Music: Essays

    "Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music." --WBGO (Newark Public Radio)In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's...
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  • Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver by Silver, Horace
    Horace Silver

    Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver

    Horace Silver is one of the last giants remaining from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known as "hard bop" in the 1950s. This freewheeling autobiography of the great composer, pianist, and bandleader takes us from his childhood in...
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  • Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Kelley, Robin D. G.
    Robin D. G. Kelley

    Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

    From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk's 2017 centennial.Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: C Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: C Edition

    (Fake Book). The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any regard...
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  • The André Hodeir Jazz Reader by Hodeir, André
    André Hodeir

    The André Hodeir Jazz Reader

    First trained as a violinist, then as a composer, André Hodeir began writing about jazz in the 1940s. As editor-in-chief of the French magazine Jazz Hot, he was an early proponent of bebop and its practitioners, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Downbeat called Hodeir's...
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  • Free Jazz/Black Power by Carles, Philippe
    Philippe Carles

    Free Jazz/Black Power

    In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long-ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism....
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  • Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats by Spencer, Frederick J.
    Frederick J. Spencer

    Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats

    When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer, M.D., conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies...
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  • Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression by Marlow, Eugene
    Eugene Marlow

    Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression

    Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism "Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces...
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  • Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression by Marlow, Eugene
    Eugene Marlow

    Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression

    Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism "Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces...
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  • The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson by Loza, Steven
    Steven Loza

    The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson

    Jazz great Gerald Wilson (1918-2014), born in Shelby, Mississippi, left a global legacy of paramount significance through his progressive musical ideas and his orchestra's consistent influence on international jazz. Aided greatly by interviews that bring Wilson's voice to the story, Steven Loza presents a...
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  • New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans by Swenson, John
    John Swenson

    New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans

    At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of...
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  • Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century by Giddins, Gary
    Gary Giddins

    Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century

    Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time...
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  • Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum by Lester, James
    James Lester

    Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum

    Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control in pyrotechnical passages...are miracles of performance." Whitney Balliett wrote "no pianist has ever hit...
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  • Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904-1930 by Kenney, William Howland
    William Howland Kenney

    Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904-1930

    The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses,...
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  • The Jazz Tradition: Second Revised Edition by Williams, Martin
    Martin Williams

    The Jazz Tradition: Second Revised Edition

    When it was first published in 1970, this lively and fascinating book was greeted with almost universal acclaim. The American Record Guide called it "the best one-volume of jazz we have," and the Jazz Journal praised it as "a brilliant study of the whole...
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  • The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 by Schuller, Gunther
    Gunther Schuller

    The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945

    Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat...
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  • Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Schuller, Gunther
    Gunther Schuller

    Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development

    Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz...
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  • Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde by Iverson, Jennifer
    Jennifer Iverson

    Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde

    For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into...
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  • Love Songs: The Hidden History by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Love Songs: The Hidden History

    The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how...
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  • Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion by Bivins, Jason C.
    Jason C. Bivins

    Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion

    In Spirits Rejoice! Jason Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped. Much writing about jazz tends toward glorified discographies or impressionistic descriptions of the actual sounds. Rather than providing a history, or...
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  • Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study by Terefenko, Dariusz
    Dariusz Terefenko

    Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study

    Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, Second Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for those with no previous study in jazz, as well as those in advanced theory courses. Written with the goal to bridge theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation...
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  • Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit by Brennan, Matt
    Matt Brennan

    Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit

    The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit:...
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  • George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans by Bethell, Tom
    Tom Bethell

    George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans

    George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, New Orleans jazz had pretty much...
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  • George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans by Bethell, Tom
    Tom Bethell

    George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans

    George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, New Orleans jazz had pretty much...
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  • Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label by Ra, Sun
    Sun Ra

    Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label

    Considered the foremost exponent of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra mastered a wide array of styles that spanned jazz, R&B, exotica, Afro-hybrids, electronic, big band, solo piano, orchestral, experimental, and chamber works. In his 45-year recording career, he issued an epic number of albums and he...
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  • Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by English, T. J.
    T. J. English

    Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

    From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.[A] brilliant and courageous book. --Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of...
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  • Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by English, T. J.
    T. J. English

    Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

    From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.[A] brilliant and courageous book. --Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition - Mini Edition: C Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition - Mini Edition: C Edition

    (Fake Book). Hal Leonard proudly presents new "mini" editions of its best-selling Real Books. These 5.5 x 8.5 little books pack a big jazz punch; they include all 400 fantastic songs found in the 9 x 12 versions: All Blues * Au Privave *...
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  • Miles by Davis, Miles
    Miles Davis

    Miles

    Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. He speaks frankly and openly about his...
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  • Off the Books: A Jazz Life by Leitch, Peter
    Peter Leitch

    Off the Books: A Jazz Life

    Many jazz lives have unfolded as marginal existences, as jazz guitarist Peter Leitch attests in this honest memoir of a life lived in search of excellence in music and art, but also a life lived battling depression, alienation, and narcotics addiction. Leitch vividly relates...
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  • Jazz Guitar Workshop - 12 Key Jazz Guitar Workout Major & Melodic Minor Edition by Green, Robert
    Robert Green

    Jazz Guitar workshop - 12 key jazz guitar workout Major & Melodic Minor Edition

    Jazz Guitar Workshop - 12 Key Jazz Guitar Workout Major and Melodic Minor Edition Jazz Guitar wood shedding exercises in 12 keys - The Major scales modes and arpeggios over 2 octaves in 12 keys. Diatonic triads, diatonic 7th chords, broken thirds, sequences, triadic...
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  • Jazz: A Beginner's Guide by Nicholson, Stuart
    Stuart Nicholson

    Jazz: A Beginner's Guide

    This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner's Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early...
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  • Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley by Ginell, Cary
    Cary Ginell

    Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley

    WALK TALL: THE MUSIC & LIFE OF JULIAN CANNONBALL ADDERLEYAuthor: Cary GinellISBN-10: 1458419797ISBN-13: 9781458419798Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2013Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
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  • Notes and Tones: Musician-To-Musician Interviews by Taylor, Arthur
    Arthur Taylor

    Notes and Tones: Musician-To-Musician Interviews

    Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. It consists of twenty-nine no-holds-barred conversations which drummer Arthur Taylor held with the most influential jazz musicians of the '60s and '70s-including: Art Blakey Betty Carter Don...
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  • Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago's Black Metropolis by Dubin, Steven C.
    Steven C. Dubin

    Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago's Black Metropolis

    Bronzeville was once America's most vibrant Black community--next to Harlem. Nightclubs, dance halls, rialtos, and jazz and blues joints lined the streets of Chicago's South Side. Not much is left. A few sound recordings, memories passed down from generation to generation, and--until now--only a...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: Eb Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: Eb Edition

    (Fake Book). The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any regard...
    $49.99
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  • Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Watson, Philip
    Philip Watson

    Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

    The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist, Bill Frisell. FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin...
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  • Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews by Gleason, Ralph J.
    Ralph J. Gleason

    Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews

    An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in...
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  • Guitar: Guitar Music Book For Beginners, Guide How To Play Guitar Within 24 Hours by Mahalo, Tom
    Tom Mahalo

    Guitar: Guitar Music Book For Beginners, Guide How To Play Guitar Within 24 Hours

    Updated Content On February 4, 2018, + Extra Bonus AddedLearn How To Play The Guitar Within 24 Hours TodayThis book will help you: Learn the guitar in a record time. If you would love to learn how to play the guitar, but have not...
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  • Sittin' in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s by Gold, Jeff
    Jeff Gold

    Sittin' in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s

    A rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-winning record executive and music historian Jeff Gold and featuring exclusive interviews with Quincy...
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  • The Real Book by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book

    (Fake Book). Since the 1970s, The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition...
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  • Duke Ellington: The Notes the World Was Not Ready to Hear by Barbera, Karen S.
    Karen S. Barbera

    Duke Ellington: The Notes the World Was Not Ready to Hear

    Karen Barbera and Randall Keith Horton were strangers who met on a train. A cordial conversation led to an eight-year collaboration to tell new and enlightening stories about Duke Ellington and to bring his forgotten masterpieces back to life. The results are concerts and...
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  • Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by DeVito, Chris
    Chris DeVito

    Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews

    Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times's reader pollJohn 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...
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