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Africa speaks, America answers modern jazz in revolutionary times

Kelley, Robin D. G.
Harvard University Press : Cambridge, Mass., 2012. 2012

Afro-Cuban jazz

Yanow, Scott.
San Francisco, Calif. : Miller Freeman Books, c2000. 2000

American musicians : fifty-six portraits in jazz

Balliett, Whitney.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. 1986

Bebop and nothingness : jazz and pop at the end of the century

Davis, Francis.
New York : Schirmer Books, c1996. 1996

Cats of any color : jazz black and white

Lees, Gene, author.
New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1995. 1995

Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker

Giddins, Gary.
New York, N.Y. : Beech Tree Books, c1987. 1987

Chasin' the Trane : the music and mystique of John Coltrane

Thomas, J. C.
New York : Da Capo Press, 1976. 1976

Duke Ellington

Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1987. 1987

Ellington : the early years

Tucker, Mark, 1954-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991. 1991

Four jazz lives

Spellman, A. B., 1935-
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2004. 2004

Giant steps : bebop and the creators of modern jazz 1945-65

Mathieson, Kenny.
Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Payback, c1999. 1999

Good morning blues : the autobiography of Count Basie

Basie, Count, 1904-1984
New York, N.Y. : Random House, c1985. 1985

Handful of keys : conversations with thirty jazz pianists

Shipton, Alyn, author.
London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2016. 2016

Hi-de-ho the life of Cab Calloway

Shipton, Alyn.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010

His eye is on the sparrow : an autobiography

Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977.
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1951. 1951

It's about time : the Dave Brubeck story

Hall, Fred, 1923-
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1996. 1996

The jazz makers

New York : Grove Press, [c1957] 1957

Jazz makers : vanguards of sound

Shipton, Alyn, author.
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2002] 2002

Jazz masters of the fifties

Goldberg, Joe.
New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, [1983], c1965. 1983

Jazz masters of the forties

Gitler, Ira.
New York : Da Capo Press, 1983, c1966. 1983

Jazz masters of the thirties

Stewart, Rex William, 1907-1967.
New York : Da Capo Press, 1980, c1972. 1980

Jazzmen

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1977] c. 1967, c. 1939. 1977

John Coltrane

Cole, Bill, 1937-
New York : Schirmer Books, c1976. 1976

Louis Armstrong, an American genius

Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-
New York : Oxford University Press, 1983. 1983

Louis Armstrong, his life & times

Pinfold, Mike.
New York : Universe Books ; Turnbridge Wells : Spellmount, c1987. 1987

Lullaby of Birdland

Shearing, George, 1919-2011.
New York : Continuum, 2004. 2004

Lush life : a biography of Billy Strayhorn

Hajdu, David.
New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996. 1996

Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century : Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century

Beuttler, Bill. author.
Amherst : Lever Press, 2019. 2019

Miles Davis :

Cole, Bill, 1937-
New York : Da Capo Press, 1994. 1994

Milestones I : The music and times of Miles Davis to 1960

Chambers, Jack.
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1983- 1983

The new edition of the encyclopedia of jazz

[S.l.] : Bonanza Books, 1955. 1955

Reading jazz : a gathering of autobiography, reportage, and criticism from 1919 to now

New York : Pantheon Books, ©1996. 1996

To be, or not ... to bop : memoirs

Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1979. 1979

Too marvelous for words : the life and genius of Art Tatum

Lester, James.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. 1994

The trumpet kings : the players who shaped the sound of jazz trumpet

Yanow, Scott.
San Francisco, Calif. : Backbeat Books, c2001. 2001

The world of Count Basie

Dance, Stanley.
New York : Scribner, c1980. 1980