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Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

By Brian Hinton

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King

By Lloyd Bradley (Author and contributor)

Wishing on the Moon: Life and Times of Billie Holiday

By Donald Clarke

Suits Me: The Double Life Of Billy Tipton: The Double Life of Billy Tipton

By Diane Wood Middlebrook

My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

By Jay Rayner

Love Supreme: the Making of John Coltrane's Classic Album: The Creation of John Coltrane's Classic Album

By Ashley Kahn

Ella Fitzgerald

By Stuart Nicholson

An Actor's Craft: The Art and Technique of Acting

By David Krasner

Coming through Slaughter

By Michael Ondaatje

Amy, My Daughter

By Mitch Winehouse

Amy Winehouse

By Kate Solomon

London: Immigrant City

By Nazneen Khan-Ostrem, Alison McCullough

Billie Holiday

By Stuart Nicholson

Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music

By Ian Carr

Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing

By Gene Lees

Lady Sings the Blues

By Billie Holiday

Best of Jazz: v. 2: Enter the Giants

By Humphrey Lyttelton

Aretha Franklin: Volume 44

By Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Amy Blackwell

Doggin' Around

By Alan Plater

Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren - Our Bananarama Story

By Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward

Over the Top and Back: The remarkable autobiography from a national treasure

By Sir Tom Jones

Lullaby of Birdland: The Autobiography of George Shearing

By george shearing, Alyn Shipton

Nat Gonella: A Life in Jazz

By Ron Brown, Digby Fairweather

Miles

By Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe

Louis Armstrong: Singing, Swinging Satchmo

By Sandford Brown

Nat King Cole

By Maria Cole

Miss Shirley Bassey

By John L. Williams

Jazz People

By Valerie Wilmer

Four Lives in the Bebop Business

By A. B. Spellman