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Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson

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Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson

Alan Greenberg, introduction by Stanley Crouch

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Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century

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Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century

Charles Shaar Murray

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A vivid biography of John Lee Hooker, from a critically acclaimed journalist See details

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Duke Ellington’s America

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Duke Ellington’s America

Harvey G. Cohen

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Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. Th... See details

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Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond

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Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond

Peter King

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Reveals the author’s obsessions and motivations that have driven him and the dilemmas of surviving as a top c... See details

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History of Jazz in Britain, 1919-50

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A History of Jazz in Britain, 1919-50

Jim Godbolt

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Examines the arrival of jazz in Britain, the influence of American musicians, the big-band era and then the advent ... See details

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Really the Blues

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Really the Blues

Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe

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New History of Jazz

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A New History of Jazz

Alyn Shipton

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Challenges various assumptions that surround the birth and growth of jazz music. This book also re-evaluates the tr... See details

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Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books

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Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books

Gary Giddins

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A wonderful gathering of little-known treasures, Natural Selection will broaden the perception of Gary Giddins as o... See details

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Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century

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Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century

Gary Giddins

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An anthology of jazz criticism of prominent jazz critic, Gary Giddins from 1990 to 2003. See details

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Work Songs

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Work Songs

Ted Gioia

For as long as there has been work, humans have sung to celebrate it, distract themselves from it, to make it tolerable and to accomplish it more e... See details

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Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul

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Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul

other primary creator Roger D. Abrahams, Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed and Robert Farris Thompson

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“A furious, blues-tinged, erudite hymn to our greatest vernacular city. Read it and weep; read it and rejoice... See details

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Armstrong

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Armstrong

David Bradbury

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Louis Satchmo’ Armstrong (1900-71), born in poverty, brought up in an orphanage, dominated one of the art for... See details

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Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz

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Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz

Coleridge Goode and Roger Cotterrell

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The autobiography of jazz bass player Coleridge Goode, assisted by Roger Cotterrell. Born and raised in Jamaica, Go... See details

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