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Composing for the Jazz Orchestra
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /"Although it will be of primary interest to those who are engaged in composition themselves, [this] book is also recommended for readers who may ...
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Billie's Blues: The Billie Holiday Story, 1933-1959
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Anyone who has ever heard a Billie Holiday record knows the sound of her voice—sad, sexy, always relaxed but securely aware of the beat. Conveyin...
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Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chron...
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Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"Ascension is as spellbinding as Coltrane's music."—The New Review of Records"This remarkable book traces the development of Coltrane's music as ...
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The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazz Man
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /(Book). The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz, George Murphy "Pops" Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats from Louis Armst...
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Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Gigi Gryce was a saxophonist and composer who worked with some of the best-known names in jazz during the 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelo...
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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"A jazz-lover's delight."—Ray Olson, Booklist Noted jazz author Ashley Kahn brings to life the behind-the-scenes story of Impulse Records, one of...
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Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize--winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he's learned from a lifetime in jazz-les...
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A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in ...
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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"An occasion to appreciate Dexter’s resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation.”—Angela Y. Davis, political ac...
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Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles a...
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But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"May be the best book ever written about jazz."—David Thomson, Los Angeles TimesIn eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evok...
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Improvising Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Both the beginning performer and the curious listener will gain from this book, as Coker explains the major concepts of jazz, including blues, ha...
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Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. It consists of twenty-nine no-holds-barre...
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Jazz: A History of America's Music
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A masterpiece that brings to life the fascinating story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Visually stunning, with more than five hundred...
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The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: Bass Clef Edition / Edition 6
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /(Fake Book). The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them throug...
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The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition - Mini Edition: C Edition / Edition 6
PaperbackOriginal price $44.99Original price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /(Fake Book). Hal Leonard proudly presents new "mini" editions of its best-selling Real Books. These 5.5 x 8.5 little books pack a big jazz punch;...
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full acces...
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The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that...
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Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times’s reader poll John Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyon...
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Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends During his nearly forty years as a music journalis...
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The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommen...
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The Circle of Fifths
PaperbackOriginal price $20.45 - Original price $20.45Original price $20.45$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Ready for a great leap forward in applying theory to your musical practice? Discover techniques to help bring your visual memory into play. Have...
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Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections During ...
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