Category: Arts & Literature
Composers & Musicians - Jazz
- Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
Peter Pettinger / Yale Univ Pr / September 1998
- Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Diane Wood Middlebrook(Preface) / Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd) / June 1998
- Miles: The Autobiography
Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (Contributor) / Touchstone Books / September 1990
- John Coltrane: His Life and Music (Michigan American Music Series)
Lewis Porter / Univ of Michigan Pr / January 1998
- As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
Chet Baker, Carol Baker (Introduction) / St Martins Pr (Trade) / November 1997
- Beneath the Underdog: His World As Composed by Mingus
Charles Mingus, et al / Vintage Books / September 1991
- Space is the Place; The Life and Times of Sun Ra
John F. Szwed, James Marti / Pantheon Books / July 1997
- Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
Laurence Bergreen / Broadway Books / July 1997
- Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius: 'the World's Greatest Bass Player'
Bill Milkowski / Miller Freeman Books / September 1996
- Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk
Leslie Gourse / Schirmer Books / October 1997
- Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell
Francis Paudras, et al / Da Capo Pr / April 1998
- Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
Laurence Bergreen, Jenny Minton / Broadway Books / July 1998
- Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music
Thomas Fitterling, Robert Dobbin (Translator) / Berkeley Hills Books / March 1997
- Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
David Hajdu / North Point Press / June 1997
- Mister, I Am the Band!: Buddy Rich, His Life and Travels
Doug Meriwether, Clarence Hintze / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation / September 1998
- Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
Donald Clarke / Penguin USA (Paper) / October 1995
- Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz
Donald L. Maggin / William Morrow & Co Paper / September 1997
- Music Is My Mistress
Duke Ellington, Edward K. Ellington / Da Capo Pr / May 1988
- Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (Da Capo Paperback)
Louis, Armstrong, Dan Morgenstern (Illustrator) / Da Capo Pr / April 1988
- Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
David Hajdu / Farrar Straus & Giroux / June 1996
- The Charlie Parker Companion: Six Decades of Commentary
Carl Woideck (Editor) / Simon & Schuster / March 1998
- Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis
Jack Chambers(Introduction) / Da Capo Pr / September 1998
- Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington
John Edward Hasse, Wynton Marsalis / Da Capo Pr / April 1995
- Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
John F. Szwed / Da Capo Pr / September 1998
- Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
Ross Russell / Da Capo Pr / April 1996
- A Miles Davis Reader (Smithsonian Readers in American Music)
Bill Kirchner (Editor) / Smithsonian Institution Press / November 1997
- Around About Midnight: A Portrait of Miles Davis
Eric Nisenson / Da Capo Pr / April 1996
- The John Coltrane Companion: Four Decades of Commentary (Companion Series)
Carl Woideck (Editor) / Schirmer Books / August 1998
- Traps the Drum Wonder: The Life of Buddy Rich
Mel Torme, Rebeats Press / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation / February 1998
- Mingus: A Critical Biography
Brian Priestley / Da Capo Pr / April 1988
- The Miles Davis Companion: Four Decades of Commentary
Gary Carner (Editor) / Schirmer Books / November 1996
- Monk
Laurent De Wilde, Jonathan Dickinson (Translator) / Marlowe & Co / December 1997
- The Ella Fitzgerald Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary
Leslie Gourse (Editor) / Schirmer Books / March 1998
- Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century
Francis Davis / Schirmer Books / March 1996
- Bird's Diary; The Life of Charlie Parker, 1945-1955
Ken Vail / Music Sales Corp / October 1996
- Django's Gypsies: The Mystique of Django Reinhardt and His People: A Unique Collection of Photographs, Illustrations, Memorabilia and Quotations
Ian Cruickshank (Compiler), Ian Cruicksand / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation / January 1997
- Charlie Parker: His Music and Life (Michigan American Music Series)
Carl Woideck / Univ of Michigan Pr / November 1996
- Notes and Tones: Musician-To-Musician Interviews
Arthur Taylor / Da Capo Pr / September 1993
- Wes Montgomery
Adrian Ingram, Adrian Ingrim / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation / October 1993
- Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz
Donald L. Maggin / William Morrow & Company / March 1996
- American Musicians II: Seventy-Two Portraits in Jazz
Whitney Balliett, Whithney Balliett / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / June 1998
- Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genuis of Jazz Guitar
Sharony Andrews Green / Miller Freeman Books / January 1999
- One Man's Blues: The Life and Music of Mose Allison
Patti Jones / Quartet Books Ltd / March 1998
- Dreamtime Alice: A Memoir
Mandy Sayer / Ballantine Books (Trd) / March 1998
- Satchmo
Gary Giddins / Da Capo Pr / April 1998
- The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary
Joshua Berrett (Editor) / Schirmer Books / February 1999
- Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
Stuart Nicholson / Da Capo Pr / September 1995
- Fats Waller
Maurice Waller, et al / Macmillan General Reference / September 1997
- Billie Holiday
Stuart Nicholson / Northeastern Univ Pr / April 1997
- Jazz: Photographs of the Masters
Jacques Lowe(Photographer), et al / Artisan / December 1995
- Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
Stuart Nicholson / Scribner / May 1994
- Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary (Companion Series)
Leslie Gourse (Editor) / Schirmer Books / April 1997
- Coltrane: A Biography
Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins / Black Classic Pr / December 1989
- Charlie Christian
Peter Broadbent / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation / January 1997
- Louis Armstrong
Michel Boujut, et al / Rizzoli International Publications / October 1998
- Miles: The Autobiography [ABRIDGED]
Mile Davis, et al / Audio Literature / April 1998
- Traps the Drum Wonder: The Life of Buddy Rich
Mel Torme, Rebeats Press / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation / February 1998
- Gershwin: With a New Critical Discography
Edward Jablonski / Da Capo Pr / September 1998
- Josephine
Josephine Baker, et al / Marlowe & Co / January 1995
- Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman
Ross Firestone / W.W. Norton & Company / August 1994
- As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
Chet Baker / St Martins Pr (Trade) / February 1999
- Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville (Bayou Press Series)
Danny Barker, Alyn Shipton (Editor) / Cassell Academic / November 1998
- Cleo
Cleo Laine / Simon & Schuster / May 1997
- Leader of the Band: The Life of Woody Herman
Gene Lees, Graham Lees / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / July 1997
- Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz
John Chilton / Da Capo Pr / June 1996
- Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
Albert Murray / Da Capo Pr / April 1995
- The World of Duke Ellington
Stanley Dance / Da Capo Pr / December 1981
- Duke Ellington in Person: An Intimate Memoir
Mercer Ellington, Stanley Dance (Contributor) / Da Capo Pr / April 1988
- Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum
James Lester / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / May 1995
- Spirit Catcher: The Life and Art of John Coltrane
John Fraim / Greathouse / January 1996
- First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald for the Record
Geoffrey Mark Fidelman, Geoferey M. Fidelman / Citadel Pr / June 1996
- Talking Jazz: An Oral History
Ben Sidran, Lee Tanner (Illustrator) / Da Capo Pr / April 1995
- Teddy Wilson Talks Jazz
Teddy Wilson, et al / Cassell Academic / October 1996
- Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs
Janet Coleman, et al / Limelight Editions / October 1991
- King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
Edward A. Berlin / Oxford Univ Press / July 1994
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