Jazz


Most Read This Week Tagged "Jazz"

Can't We Be Friends
Wild Women and the Blues
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
Blue in Green
Święta tradycja, własny głos. Opowieści o amerykańskim jazzie
Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time
Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
Black Bottom Saints
Enter the Blue
Miles: The Autobiography
The History of Jazz
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
How to Listen to Jazz
Beneath the Underdog
John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
Lady Sings the Blues
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
The Great Gatsby
Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsMina and the Undead by Amy McCawThe Awakening by Kate ChopinNine Lives by Dan Baum
Best New Orleans Books
421 books — 346 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMary, Everything by Cassandra YorkeSpeak Easy, Anne by Brandy D. AndersonBitter Spirits by Jenn BennettRomancing the Rumrunner by Michelle McLean
1920s Romance
147 books — 66 voters

The Jazz Harmony Book by David BerkmanThe Chord Scale Theory and Jazz Harmony by Barrie NettlesMel Bay Hokum by Leon GrizzardThe Jazz Standards by Ted GioiaImprovisation by Derek Bailey
Jazz Theory and Harmony
8 books — 3 voters
Ballet Boy by Anfaney GladwinGiraffes Can't Dance by Giles AndreaeBarnyard Dance by Sandra BoyntonFlora and the Flamingo by Molly IdleRap A Tap Tap by Leo Dillon
Picture Books About Dance
195 books — 65 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe History of Jazz by Ted GioiaBut Beautiful by Geoff DyerThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books that Squidward would like
95 books — 1 voter
Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy BakerThe Bass Saxophone by Josef ŠkvoreckýHalf Blood Blues by Esi EdugyanEl perseguidor by Julio CortázarHopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Jazz fiction
59 books — 12 voters


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David Sedaris
When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity. ...more
David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Denis Johnson
After a noticeable silence, he'd recently published a book of technically baffling poems, with line breaks so arbitrary and frequent as to be useless, arrhythmic. On the page they look like some of Charles Bukowski's skinny, chatty, muttering-stuttering antiverses. Impossibly, Mark's words make music, the faraway strains of an irresistible jazz. It's plain to any reader, within a few lines—well, go read the poems and see, Marcus Ahearn traffics with the ineffable. He makes the mind of the speake ...more
Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

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