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