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The New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz (New Grove Composer Biography S.)

By Oliver, Paul

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Duke Ellington (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers S.)

By Venezia, Mike

Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story

By Jones, Max, Chilton, John

Beethoven: His Spiritual Development (U.Books)

By Sullivan, J. W. N.

Cig Playing Drums 2Nd Ed (Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifestyle Paperback))

By Miller, Michael

Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz

By Lomax, Alan, Amis, Kingsley

Miles Davis (Life & Times)

By Brian Morton

The Jazz Singers from ragtime to new wave (A Javelin Book)

By Crowther, Bruce, Pinfold, Mike

Afro-Cuban Jazz (Third ear): Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion

By Yanow, Scott

So What: The Life of Miles Davis

By Szwed, John

Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie (Paladin Books)

By Basie, Count, Murray, Albert

It Just Occurred to Me: The Reminiscences & Thoughts of Chairman Humph

By Lyttelton, Humphrey

Race: Vintage Minis

By Morrison, Toni

Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (Da Capo Paperback)

By Armstrong, Louis

A View of the Empire at Sunset

By Phillips, Caryl

Tackling Life

By Oatway, Charlie

R. Crumb Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country

By Crumb, Robert, Colt, Steven, Jasen, David A.

Dizzy Gillespie (Jazz Masters S.)

By HORRICKS, Raymond

Just Getting Started

By Bennett, Tony, Simon, Scott

Billie Holiday

By Nicholson, Stuart

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday (Vintage): Gertrude Ma Rainey

By Davis, Angela Y.

American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950

By Wilder, Alec, Maher, James T., Lees, Graham

Coming Through Slaughter (Picador)

By Ondaatje, Michael

Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

By Scholem, Gershom

Celebrating Bird: Triumph of Charlie Parker

By Giddins, Gary

Bird Lives: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie Yardbird Parker

By Russell, Ross

Owning-Up: The Trilogy: Scouse Mouse;Rum, Bum And Concertina;Owning Up (Penguin Classic Biography S.)

By Melly, George

Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65

By Mathieson, Kenny

Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

By Kay, Jackie

Mama Said There'd be Days Like This: My Life in the Jazz World

By Wilmer, Valerie