Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James
 Artie Shaw had it right: DEPRESSING!: I met Harry in 1974, when I was 14, in between sets at the South Shore Music Circus. He had two trumpet cases, one for his horns and another for something clear he was drinking. As a young trumpet player, he was my [... more]
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Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz ...
Amazon.com Review: In the early '50s, Clifford Brown was one of the most dominant trumpeters of the Hard Bop period. Nick Catalano, professor of literature and music at Pace University, has written the first book on this important artist, and it's a [... more]
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Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum
James Lester on Art Tatum: It's been about 10 years since this book was published. I've read it over and over more than 10 times.Lester never made any bones about finding new material about Art. He always admitted that he was just putting pen to paper [... more]
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Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings
Armstrong hits a high C on his typewriter.: If you like jazz, Armstrong, "Potato Head Blues," or life itself, read this book. A GENIUS IN MUSIC... AND IN WORDS: Of the 21 books I have collected which are either by or about Louis Armstrong, [... more]
$27.50
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Louis Armstrong: An American Genius
The definitive Satchmo biography: Collier did a great job! His historiography is as brilliant as ever. It seems to me that the mainstream of Jazz so-called "scholars" don't like Collier because he's got no race bias and because of his [... more]
$49.99
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Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings
Armstrong hits a high C on his typewriter.: If you like jazz, Armstrong, "Potato Head Blues," or life itself, read this book. A GENIUS IN MUSIC... AND IN WORDS: Of the 21 books I have collected which are either by or about Louis Armstrong, [... more]
$39.99
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Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz ...
Amazon.com Review: In the early '50s, Clifford Brown was one of the most dominant trumpeters of the Hard Bop period. Nick Catalano, professor of literature and music at Pace University, has written the first book on this important artist, and it's a [... more]
$14.95
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Tonight At Noon: A Love Story
An Elegantly Written Love Story & Testimony To A Jazz Legend: Charlie Mingus, the legendary bassist/composer has long been one of my favorite jazz musicians. Many have called him "irascible, demanding, bullying, and probably a genius." I [... more]
$16.95
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Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott
A gripping biography which reads like a novel: Musicians will also enjoy David Ritz's Faith In Time, a survey of the life of Jimmy Scott. Orphaned as a teen and suffering from a syndrome which kept his voice unnaturally high, he toured with Lionel [... more]
$25.00
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Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon
Billie: This was the best Bio I have read on Billie. Previous Bios never were clear on how many times she was married. Actually she was only married twice. There was also quite a bit of detail on her growing up in Baltimore. I always thought that Billie [... more]
$21.00
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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography Of The First Lady Of Jazz
Amazon.com Review: Ella Fitzgerald, who died in 1996, came from a poverty-stricken background. She was abandoned by her father, possibly abused by her stepfather and lived on the streets as a teenager. As a club singer she had to contend with racism, [... more]
$17.50
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Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
purejoy - like the man himself: Louis Armstrong is one of the central figures along with Duke Ellington of Giddins's incredible Visions of Jazz, and that sent me to Satchmo, a mindblowing collection of photographs and a biographical and musical [... more]
$16.00
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