Nonfiction Books about Music Jazz

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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
Louis Armstrong

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Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present
Lewis Porter

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Music is My Mistress
Duke Ellington

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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Stephon Alexander

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Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece
Ashley Kahn

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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
Ashley Kahn

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All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz
Vladimir Bogdanov

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As serious as your life: John Coltrane and beyond
Val Wilmer

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We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz
Eddie Condon

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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
Ashley Kahn

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Black music
Amiri Baraka

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Jazz Seen: The Music of Images-William Claxton's History of Jazz
Don Heckman

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John Coltrane: His Life and Music
Lewis Porter

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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
Carole Boston Weatherford

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Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity
Paul Austerlitz

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High times, hard times
Anita O'Day

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Stomping the blues
Albert Murray

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Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Gene Santoro

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Jazz: A History of America's Music
Geoffrey C. Ward

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Living with Music: Jazz Writings
Ralph Ellison

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