Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
By: Maxine Gordon
4.21
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Miles: The Autobiography
By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more
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2. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
3. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
By: Robert A. Caro
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON… read more
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4. Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
By: Stanley Crouch
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parkeris the first installment in the long-awa… read more
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5. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
3.91
Format: 631 pages,
THELONIOUS MONK is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" wit… read more
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6. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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7. Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews
By: Ted Gioia , None , None
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends Duri… read more
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8. Fledgling
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young… read more
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9. Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
By: Ben Ratliff
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A major work about the great saxophonist--and about the state of jazz. What was the essence of John… read more
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10. Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
By: Peter Pettinger
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This enthralling book is the first biography in English of Bill Evans, one of the most influential … read more
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11. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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12. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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13. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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14. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
15. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
16. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir
By: Michael McDonald
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more
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17. Charlie's Good Tonight
By: Paul Sexton
4.12
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one … read more
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18. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)
By: Walter Mosley
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more
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19. Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
By: Michael K. Williams
4.49
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission … read more
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20. Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
By: Maxine Gordon
4.21
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
"An occasion to appreciate Dexter’s resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social … read more
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21. Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music
By: Henry Threadgill
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful medit… read more
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