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• Ella Fitzgerald

  the Chick Webb Years & Beyond

  Fritts, Ron

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  The Jazz Itineraries series, a new format based on Ken Vail's successful Jazz Diaries, charts the careers of famous jazz musicians, listing club and concert appearances with details of recording sessions and movie appearances. Copiously illustrated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strange Fruit

  Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song

  Golio, Gary

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  From four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee David Margolick, STRANGE FRUIT explores the story of the memorable civil rights ballad made famous by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. The song's powerful, evocative lyrics-written by a Jewish communist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Know What I Know

  the Music of Charles Mingus

  Jenkins, Todd S., 1968-

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  I Know What I Know: The Music of Charles Mingus by Todd S. Jenkins is a chronological guide to the recordings of the legendary jazz bassist and composer, focusing on his musical innovations rather than personal life. Published in 2006, the book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just One of Those Things

  Lionel Hampton Featuring Oscar Peterson on Verve

  Hampton, Lionel

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  Verve's Just One of Those Things contains a selection of eight highlights from Lionel Hampton's sessions with Oscar Peterson between 1953 and 1954. This may be just a sampler, but it's a highly enjoyable one, since Hampton and Peterson were at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hamp, An Autobiography

  Hampton, Lionel

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  Master vibes player and jazz legend Lionel Hampton recounts his more than 60 years in the music business - and delivers a panoramic view of America from World War I to the present. The only book ever written on this jazz giant, it includes the most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The King of All, Sir Duke

  Ellington and the Artistic Revolution

  Lavezzoli, Peter

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  Twenty-five years ago in his hit song, Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder sings- Music knows it is and always will be one of the things that life just won't quit./ Here are some of music's basic pioneers that time will not allow us to forget-/ There's Basie,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Best of Jazz & Blues

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  "Musicals shorts, produced to merely fill out the film program, have in many cases acquired more value than the features they once supported. Filmed at the Paramount Studios in Astoria, Queens, these films offer unparalleled opportunities to see and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Duke Ellington

  Live in '58

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  Presents the earliest-known filmed full-length concert by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, filmed at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw on November 2, 1958.

• Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis

  a Twentieth-century Transnational Biography

  Lefkovitz, Aaron E.,

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  This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington

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  "Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in-depth, Ellington's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Duke Ellington

  An American Composer and Icon

  Ellington, Mercedes,

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  The first illustrated book to focus on the life of Duke Ellington. Unique in being endorsed by Ellington's family and estate, this stands alone in a market of mostly unofficial biographies and songbooks. In the vein of other music titles such as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ella Fitzgerald Companion

  David, Norman

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  The Ella Fitzgerald Companion David, Norman (0 ratings) Book, 2004 The Ella Fitzgerald Companion is a celebration of the woman who is arguably musical history's greatest singer of popular. An international superstar of jazz and popular music,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kind of Man I Am

  Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr.

  Rustin-Paschal, Nichole,

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  The Kind of Man I Am examines the effects of race and masculinity on both Charles Mingus Jr and the culture of jazz.

• Billie Holiday

  a Biography

  Greene, Meg

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  Billie Holiday (1915-1959), the legendary jazz singer whose vocal stylings were deeply affecting, continues to enthrall. This biography conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs, and then decline and early death. At age 14, despite growing up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Billie Holiday

  the Musician and the Myth

  Szwed, John F., 1936- ,

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  * Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography * Published in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Better Git It in Your Soul

  An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus

  Gabbard, Krin,

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  Charles Mingus is one of the most important--and most mythologized--composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Herbie Hancock

  Possibilities

  Hancock, Herbie, 1940-

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  Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music: a jazz pianist and composer whose illustrious career has spanned seven decades and 14 Grammy Awards. Hancock's memoir will examine his extraordinary career, from his beginnings as a child prodigy in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Experiencing Herbie Hancock

  a Listener's Companion

  Wendell, Eric, 1984-

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  Jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock was a child prodigy who worked his way up through classical tradition, found a home for his insatiable creativity in jazz, and went on to influence musicians across numerous genres. His work continues to be a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ella Fitzgerald

  An Annotated Discography : Including a Complete Discography of Chick Webb

  Johnson, J. Wilfred, 1920-

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  Ella Fitzgerald is fondly remembered as America's First Lady of Song. She sang Dixieland, swing, blues and wonderful Broadway show tunes by the likes of George Gershwin and Cole Porter. She was one of America's greatest jazz singers and has left a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ella Fitzgerald

  the Complete Biography

  Nicholson, Stuart

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  Stuart Nicholson's biography of Ella Fitzgerald is considered a classic in jazz literature. Drawing on original documents, interviews, and new information, Nicholson draws a complete picture of Fitzgerald's professional and personal life. Fitzgerald…Read moreRead more of this annotation