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1.
First Book Of Jazz
by:
Langston Hughes
4.22 avg rating — 72 ratings
2.
Jazz
by:
Gary Giddins
4.20 avg rating — 291 ratings
2.
Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)
by:
Paul F. Berliner
4.27 avg rating — 241 ratings
2.
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
by:
Gary Giddins
4.18 avg rating — 390 ratings
5.
John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
by:
Lewis Porter
4.16 avg rating — 606 ratings
6.
The Story of Jazz (Galaxy Books)
by:
Marshall W. Stearns
3.76 avg rating — 106 ratings
7.
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
by:
Gunther Schuller
4.24 avg rating — 74 ratings
7.
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
by:
Gunther Schuller
4.11 avg rating — 102 ratings
9.
Stomping The Blues
by:
Albert Murray
4.07 avg rating — 213 ratings
9.
Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz
by:
John F. Szwed
3.62 avg rating — 265 ratings
9.
Giants of Jazz
by:
Studs Terkel
3.78 avg rating — 140 ratings
9.
Jake Hanna: The Rhythm and Wit of a Swinging Jazz Drummer
by:
Maria Judge
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
9.
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
by:
Geoff Dyer
4.24 avg rating — 3,185 ratings
9.
Five Night Stand
by:
Richard J. Alley
4.12 avg rating — 295 ratings
9.
Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz
by:
Robert Rawlins
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
9.
Conversations With Bill Holman, Thoughts and Recollections of a Jazz Master
by:
Bill Dobbins
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
9.
Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges
by:
Con Chapman
3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
18.
Jazz: A History of America's Music
by:
Geoffrey C. Ward
4.16 avg rating — 585 ratings
18.
Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965
by:
the late David H. Rosenthal
3.84 avg rating — 136 ratings
18.
Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
by:
Michael Dregni
4.02 avg rating — 322 ratings
18.
Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
by:
Will Friedwald
3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings
22.
Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination/La Combinacion Perfecta
by:
Raul A. Fernandez
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
22.
Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong
by:
Ricky Riccardi
4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
24.
Jazz: America's Classical Music
by:
Grover Sales
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
24.
The History of Jazz
by:
Ted Gioia
4.08 avg rating — 5,422 ratings
26.
The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century
by:
Joachim-Ernst Berendt
4.18 avg rating — 243 ratings
26.
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
by:
Ted Gioia
4.46 avg rating — 463 ratings
28.
All Music Guide to Jazz
by:
Vladimir Bogdanov
4.47 avg rating — 57 ratings
29.
The Ghosts of Harlem: Sessions with Jazz Legends
by:
Hank O'Neal
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
30.
Harlem of the West - The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
by:
Elizabeth Pepin
4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
31.
Broadway Jazz Standards
by:
Anonymous
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
32.
Jazz in Paris
by:
Boris Vian
3.72 avg rating — 92 ratings
33.
Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal, 2nd Edition
by:
John Gilmore
4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
34.
Ella Fitzgerald: A Twentieth-Century Life
by:
Tanya Lee Stone
3.58 avg rating — 67 ratings
35.
Ella Fitzgerald
by:
Stuart Nicholson
3.81 avg rating — 182 ratings
36.
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
by:
Terry Teachout
4.15 avg rating — 964 ratings
37.
Duke Ellington
by:
James Lincoln Collier
3.54 avg rating — 72 ratings
38.
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
by:
George T. Simon
4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings
39.
Benny Goodman and the Swing Era
by:
James Lincoln Collier
3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
40.
Django Reinhardt
by:
Charles Delaunay
3.80 avg rating — 87 ratings