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Books: Jazz

My fascination with jazz-and with its intriguing ties to our social and cultural history-has led me to discover that reading about it can be almost as fun and interesting as listening to it. Almost! Listed below are some of the books that I've found particularly enjoyable and enlightening. Most of them are still in print and readily available through local bookstores or online sites:

Jazz in Search of Itself by Larry Kart $40.00 The best living jazz critic? Some of us think so... and I'm willing to wager that you'll at least put Larry Kart in the runni...	Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Impr... by Paul F. Berliner $23.10 A well-written investigation into the art of jazz improvisation that incorporates numerous interviews with musicians, the auth...	Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of ... by Donald Clarke Clarke's book about Billie Holiday draws heavily upon more than a hundred interviews done by Linda Kuehl in the early 1970s wi...

Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Ce... by Linda Dahl Twenty years after its publication it remains the primary history of women in jazz.	Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Will... by Linda Dahl $21.95 Dahl's biography of pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams, whose career is rivaled in duration and breadth only by Miles Davi...	The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical Hi... by Scott DeVeaux $22.18 DeVeaux's take on the history of bop combines a smart-but-accessible cultural-studies approach to the history of bop with a ...

Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Wri... by Ralph Ellison $11.21 A collection of essays on jazz and blues by the author of INVISIBLE MAN.	Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the R... by Lewis A. Erenberg $28.00 Goodman, Ellington, Basie, Miller and more-they're all here in this book about the rise of the big bands in the 1930s and 40s,...	Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices From B... by Will Friedwald $18.90 Friedwald's opinionated, no doubt about it, and I didn't always agree with his assessments (he dismisses Nina Simone in one re...
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