Jazz
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Baby Steps: A sing-along Bebop book for kids!
$21.99 Add to cartStep into a world of rhythm, love, and family with “Baby Steps”! Inspired by John Coltrane’s bebop classic “Giant Steps,” this sing-along book is based on the lyrics to the song “Baby Steps” by The Si
- Author: Harris, Camille V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991207409
- Language: English
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Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949-1972
$24.95 Add to cartA complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.
Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or approac
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Richards, Tad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855804959
- Language: English
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album
$24.00 Add to cartFew albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane’s 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual ex… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003522
- Language: English
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Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music
$21.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award – An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a po… [more below]
- Author: Threadgill, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593081846
- Language: English
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Lit Up Inside / Keep ‘er Lit: The Collected Lyrics
$34.95 Add to cartLit Up Inside & Keep ‘Er Lit is the collected lyrics of Van Morrison, carefully selected by singer songwriter himself.
Featuring the lyrics to over two-hundred songs, and with a foreword by John Cooper… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Van
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0571398014
- Language: English
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1970s Jazz Fusion
$19.95 Add to cartThe once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop.
The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s J- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Baker, Matthew Reed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765119525
- Language: English
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Playing By Ear: A Songwriter’s Way
$15.00 Add to cartThis book is for all songwriters, pianists, singers, musicians, music producers and music teachers wanting to learn how to play by ear on the piano.
In Part 1 you will learn STEP by STEP how to add ha
- Author: Geraghty, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: November 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0993355811
- Language: English
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Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
$32.50 Add to cart“An invaluable life of a pioneering artist, only now beginning to be fully understood.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spirit- Author: Beta, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836165
- Language: English
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Waits/Corbijn
$65.00 Add to cartNow back in print, this stunning, award- winning visual odyssey encapsulates the essence of Tom Waits’ enigmatic persona and Anton Corbijn’s distinctive photographic style.
Spanning over three decades- Author: Corbijn, Anton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 3791393251
- Language: English
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Blues Boy: The B. B. King Story
$19.99 Add to cartFrom his childhood in the Jim Crow South to his triumphant reign as the King of Blues, Blues Boy tells the aspirational story of American music icon B.B. King. For readers of Trombone Shorty, When Mar
- Author: Duncan, Alice Faye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 006333402X
- Language: English
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Beneath the Skin of Sorrow: Improvisations on Loss
$27.95 Add to cartOver a period of just six months, eminent jazz vocalist and composer Nnenna Freelon’s life changed irrevocably. Her soulmate and husband of nearly forty years, the renowned architect Phil Freelon, pas… [more below]
- Author: Freelon, Nnenna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1478029110
- Language: English
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Play, Louis, Play!: The True Story of a Boy and His Horn
$8.99 Add to cartThe childhood of Louis Armstrong was as fascinating as the great musician himself-and this chapter book biography tells it like never before. Play, Louis, Play! is written from the point of view of Lo
- Author: Weinstein, Muriel Harris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1599909944
- Language: English
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Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures
$65.00 Read moreShelved during the McCarthy era, Model’s photographs of jazz musicians–together with a text by Langston Hughes–are finally published for the first time
Street photographer Lisette Model spent more t
- Author: Model, Lisette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0871301024
- Language: English
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The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life
$35.00 Add to cartHow a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place.… [more below]
- Author: Gennari, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582857
- Language: English
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A Guide to Jazz in Japan
$19.99 Add to cartFusing historical depth, cultural nuance, and travel insight into one beautifully written volume, A Guide to Jazz in Japan takes you through one of the most vibrant jazz scenes in the world. More than
- Author: Pronko, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1942410379
- Language: English
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Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart
$21.95 Add to cartOceans of Time Charts the Rhythmic Course of Jazz Master Billy HartFew drummers have traversed more stylistic terrain or logged more miles behind the world’s greatest jazz musicians than Billy Hart. F
- Author: Hart, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 195560424X
- Language: English
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Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life
$19.99 Add to cartExperience the inspiration and joy of creation and performance in Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life, an intimate portrait of a unique artist and his audience. Set in the studio, on the stage, and … [more below]
- Author: Marsalis, Wynton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0306811278
- Language: English
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
$24.00 Add to cart“Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I’ve read.” –Richard Brody, The New Yorker
When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording studio in November 193- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107968
- Language: English
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
$44.93 Add to cart“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theori… [more below]
- Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
- Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1478010878
- Language: English
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Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott Lafaro Volume 4
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009.
Selected for “The Best of the Best” from University Presses, ALA Conference, 2010.
Winner of the 2010 Associat… [more below]- Series: North Texas Lives of Musician #4
- Author: Lafaro-Fernández, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1574415751
- Language: English
