Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
By: Nate Chinen
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of jazz's leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and…
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By: Geoff Dyer
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shape… read more
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"He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to …"-Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
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2. Jazz: A History of America's Music
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4.16
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
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By: Ted Gioia
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Hardcover
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4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
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5. Miles: The Autobiography
By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
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6. Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece
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3.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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8. Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
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4.13
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
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9. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
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3.74
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
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3.87
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
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3.44
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4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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4.67
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4.54
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
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17. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
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4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
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4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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19. Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
By: Nate Chinen
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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20. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
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4.47
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
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21. Music: A Subversive History
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4.00
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global history of music from the bottom up Hi… read more
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