Jazz Musician Biographies

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

Tackling Life

By Oatway, Charlie

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

By Wilmer, Valerie

Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

By Kay, Jackie

Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

By Scholem, Gershom

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

By Melly, George

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

By Russell, Ross

Celebrating Bird: Triumph of Charlie Parker

By Giddins, Gary

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

By Venezia, Mike

A View of the Empire at Sunset

By Phillips, Caryl

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

By Armstrong, Louis

Race: Vintage Minis

By Morrison, Toni

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

By Lyttelton, Humphrey

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

By Basie, Count, Murray, Albert

So What: The Life of Miles Davis

By Szwed, John

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

By Yanow, Scott

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

By Crowther, Bruce, Pinfold, Mike

Miles Davis (Life & Times)

By Brian Morton

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

By Lomax, Alan, Amis, Kingsley

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

By Miller, Michael

Beethoven: His Spiritual Development (U.Books)

By Sullivan, J. W. N.

Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story

By Jones, Max, Chilton, John

Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65

By Mathieson, Kenny

Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography

By Lee, Peggy

Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography

By Jones, Sir Tom

Shrines of Gaiety: From the global No.1 bestselling author of Life After Life

By Atkinson, Kate