Jazz Musician Biographies

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

Vincent O'Brien - The Official Biography

By Ivor Herbert, Jacqueline O'Brien

A Fine Kind of Madness: Biography of Ronnie Scott

By Rebecca Scott, Spike Milligan

Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank Sinatra

By Barbara Sinatra

America Over the Water

By Shirley Collins

Nina Simone

By David Brun-Lambert

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

By Aidan Levy

Electric Don Quixote: Story of Frank Zappa

By Neil Slaven

Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan

By Jeff McMillan

The Cold Six Thousand

By James Ellroy

The Best of Jazz

By Humphrey Lyttelton

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

By James Ellroy

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

That Old Black Magic: Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and the Golden Age of Las Vegas

By Tom Clavin

Louis Prima

By Garry Boulard

Lady Sings the Blues

By Billie Holiday

Benny: King of Swing

By Benny Goodman

Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts

By Harriet Vyner, Jools Holland

If Beale Street Could Talk

By James Baldwin

Mister Good Times: The enthralling life story of a legendary DJ

By Norman Jay

Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings

By Peter Pettinger

Meet Me at Jim and Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World

By Gene Lees