The History of Jazz

$19.95
Paperback, Nov 1998
ISBN13: 9780195126532ISBN10: 019512653X
A panoramic history of jazz, from slave dances in Congo Square to post-modern jazz at the Knitting Factory


Weather Bird

Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
$19.99
Paperback, Mar 2006
ISBN13: 9780195304497ISBN10: 0195304497
A fascinating companion volume to the award-winning Visions of Jazz


Swing to Bop

An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
$39.99
Paperback, May 1987
ISBN13: 9780195050707ISBN10: 0195050703
"An invaluable, entertaining, essential book that any true jazz fan would love." --Baltimore Sun


Ira Gershwin

The Art of the Lyricist
$34.99
Paperback, Jun 1997
ISBN13: 9780195115703ISBN10: 0195115708
A marvelous biography of one of America's most important and enduring lyricists


The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

3 volumes
Second Edition
$450.00
Hardback, Mar 2003
ISBN13: 9781561592845ISBN10: 1561592846
"The finest jazz reference work ever published. ...This is a work of dedication, love, and scholarship--an astonishing, incomparable achievement." --San Francisco Chronicle


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