Jazz biographies and photography

By Book Beat

Jazz biographies and photography

Some of our favorite titles on and about Jazz artists including photo collections.

Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds

Jayna Brown

$25.95

1950s Jazz in London and Paris: Walter Hanlon Photography

Walter Hanlon

$29.95

Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City

William Sites

$36.00

Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon

Maxine Gordon

$29.95

$27.55

Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of...

Krin Gabbard

$34.95

Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus

Charles Mingus

$18.00

$16.56

Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker

James Gavin

$18.95

$17.43

Miles

Miles Davis

$22.00

$20.24

Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis

Philip Freeman

$19.99

Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

George Grella

$14.95

Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece

Ashley Kahn

$16.95

Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis

$24.95

John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom:...

$125.00

Jazz from Detroit

Mark Stryker

$39.95

$36.75

The Jazz Image: Masters of Jazz Photography

Lee Tanner

$45.00

How to Listen to Jazz

Ted Gioia

$17.99

$16.55

Jazz Poems

$14.95

$13.75

Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century

Nate Chinen

$27.95

Jazz Images by Francis Wolff

$49.99

$45.99

Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz

Benjamin Cawthra

$57.60

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Robin Kelley

$22.00

$20.24

Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk

Leslie Gourse

$24.95

Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a...

Youssef Daoudi

$24.99

$22.99

Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making

Gabriel Solis

$41.94

R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country [With CD Audio]

R. Crumb

$21.95

$20.19