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After the Fireworks: Three Novellas
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By Gary Giddins
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Paperback:

9780062423924 | Perennial, October 4, 2016, cover price $16.99

Jazz
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By Scott Deveaux and Gary Giddins
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Paperback:

9780393274059 | 2 pck pap/ edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2015), cover price $188.90 | also contains Jazz
9780393937060 | 2 pap/psc edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2015), cover price $156.20 | also contains Jazz
9780393978803 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 6, 2009), cover price $110.80

Jazz
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By Gary Giddins
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9780393274059 | 2 pck pap/ edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2015), cover price $188.90 | also contains Jazz
9780393937060 | 2 pap/psc edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2015), cover price $156.20 | also contains Jazz

Recordings: For Jazz, Student Ancillary
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Product Description: An optional disc including all 77 recordings in MP3 format with an easy-to-navigate index to open. Interactive Listening Guides for each work is available.
By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780393937077 | 2 cdr edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 14, 2015), cover price $73.85 | About this edition: An optional disc including all 77 recordings in MP3 format with an easy-to-navigate index to open.

Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
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Product Description: Within days of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to jazz and became a defining cultural force for musicians, writers, and artists of every stripe...read more
By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780306808500 | Da Capo Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $55.01
9780688059507, titled "Celebrating Bird the Triumph of Charlie Parker" | Beech Tree Books, November 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Profiles the influential musician from his early life in Kansas City to his death in 1955

Paperback:

9780816690411 | Revised edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 2013), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Within days of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives.
9780306808920 | Da Capo Pr, June 3, 1999, cover price $17.95
9780688059514 | Reprint edition (Beech Tree Books, December 1, 1987), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Profiles the influential musician from his early life in Kansas City to his death in 1955

Young Man With a Horn
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Product Description: Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York...read more
By Gary Giddins (other contributor)
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9781590175774 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, September 11, 2012), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him.

Una vida ejemplar / Straight Life: Memorias de Art Pepper / The Story of Art Pepper
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Product Description: From his overwhelming passion for his music to his tumultuous battle with drugs, renowned jazz musician Art Pepper holds nothing back in his autobiography. In addition to reflecting upon his own life, Pepper provides explosive commentary on both the jazz world and the drug and criminal subcultures abounding in California in the 1960s and 1970s...read more
By Gary Giddins (introduced by), Art Pepper and Laurie Pepper
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9788496879577 | Italian edition edition (Global Rhythm Pr, April 1, 2012), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From his overwhelming passion for his music to his tumultuous battle with drugs, renowned jazz musician Art Pepper holds nothing back in his autobiography.

The Norton Jazz Recordings: Essential Listening
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By Scott Deveaux and Gary Giddins
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CD/Spoken Word:

9780393118438 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 30, 2010, cover price $48.30

The Norton Jazz Recordings: For Use With Jazz: Essential Listening
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By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780393119060 | Dvdr edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 6, 2011), cover price $48.30

Warning Shadows: Home Alone With Classic Cinema
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By Gary Giddins
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Paperback:

9780393337921 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2010, cover price $24.95

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years, 1903 - 1940
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Traces the rise of Bing Crosby from his early successes as a radio star to his initial foray into Hollywood.
By Gary Giddins
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Paperback:

9780316886451 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, October 8, 2002), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Traces the rise of Bing Crosby from his early successes as a radio star to his initial foray into Hollywood.

Miscellaneous:

9780316091565, titled "Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - the Early Years 1903 - 1940" | Back Bay Books, November 29, 2009, cover price $9.99

Jazz - With Norton Jazz Recordings
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By Gary Giddins
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Paperback:

9780393192742, titled "Jazz -" | Pap/com edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 30, 2009), cover price $156.20

The Norton Jazz Recordings
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By Scott Deveaux and Gary Giddins
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CD/Spoken Word:

9780393933796 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 13, 2009, cover price $78.10

Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, And Books
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By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780195179514 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 1, 2006, cover price $99.00

Paperback:

9780195368505 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 29, 2008, cover price $27.95

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of It's Second Century
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A companion volume to the landmark Visions of Jazz collects more than 140 writings celebrating jazz, with commentary on everything from modern jazz events and the current top musicians, to studies on the leading jazz figures of the past.
By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780195156072 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 7, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A companion volume to the landmark Visions of Jazz collects more than 140 writings celebrating jazz, with commentary on everything from modern jazz events and the current top musicians, to studies on the leading jazz figures of the past.

Paperback:

9780195304497, titled "Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 12, 2006, cover price $24.95

The Great Jazz Day
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By Whitney Balliett, Ralph Ellison, Gary Giddins, Charles Graham and Dan Morgenstern
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Paperback:

9780306811630 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, July 16, 2002), cover price $22.50

Bing Crosby: The Early Years, Library Edition
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By Gary Giddins and Edward Lewis (narrator)
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CD/Spoken Word:

9780786194636 | Mp3 edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $39.95

Bing Crosby: The Early Years
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By Gary Giddins and Edward Lewis (narrator)
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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786120840 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $99.95

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams : The Early Years, 1903-1940
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Traces the rise of Bing Crosby from his early successes as a radio star to his initial foray into Hollywood.
By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780786234233 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2001), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Traces the rise of Bing Crosby from his early successes as a radio star to his initial foray into Hollywood.
9780316881883, titled "Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams : The Early Years 1903-1940" | Little Brown & Co, December 13, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Traces the rise of Bing Crosby from his early successes as a radio star to his initial foray into Hollywood.

Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
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Information gleaned from exclusive access to Armstrong's manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, memorabilia, personal effects, and photographs provides a portrait of the jazz master. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Gary Giddins
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Paperback:

9780306810138 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, January 17, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Information gleaned from exclusive access to Armstrong's manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, memorabilia, personal effects, and photographs provides a portrait of the jazz master.

Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the '80s
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Essays consider the work of Sarah Vaughan, Teddy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Roy Eldridge, Lester Young, Joe Turner, Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Woody Herman, Wynton Marsalis, and Frank Sinatra (view table of contents)
By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780195035582, titled "Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the '80s" | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | also contains Kid Paddle 8 Mi nombre es Paddle..Kid Paddle / Paddle..My name is Paddle | About this edition: Essays consider the work of Sarah Vaughan, Teddy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Roy Eldridge, Lester Young, Joe Turner, Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Woody Herman, Wynton Marsalis, and Frank Sinatra

Paperback:

9780306809873, titled "Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the '80s" | Da Capo Pr, October 18, 2000, cover price $16.95
9780195042146, titled "Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the '80's" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1986), cover price $9.95 | also contains Eci Mikoian | About this edition: Essays consider the work of Sarah Vaughan, Teddy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Roy Eldridge, Lester Young, Joe Turner, Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Woody Herman, Wynton Marsalis, and Frank Sinatra

Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop
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Essays consider the contributions of top jazz and pop singers, musicians, and composers, the problem of commercialization, and the history of jazz
By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780195028355 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1981, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays consider the contributions of top jazz and pop singers, musicians, and composers, the problem of commercialization, and the history of jazz

Paperback:

9780756766719 | Diane Pub Co, April 1, 2000, cover price $16.00
9780306809248 | Da Capo Pr, January 6, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Essays consider the contributions of top jazz and pop singers, musicians, and composers, the problem of commercialization, and the history of jazz
9780195032130 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 21, 1982), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Essays consider the contributions of top jazz and pop singers, musicians, and composers, the problem of commercialization, and the history of jazz

Visions of Jazz: The First Century
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Offers profiles of top jazz musicians and composers, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, and Frank Sinatra (view table of contents)
By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780195076752 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 22, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Offers profiles of top jazz musicians and composers, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, and Frank Sinatra

Paperback:

9780195132410 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 18, 2000, cover price $24.95

Great Jazz Day: Rare Photographs by Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Hinton and Art Kane
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By Whitney Balliett, Ralph Ellison, Gary Giddins, Charles Graham and Dan Morgenstern
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Paperback:

9780942627350 | Woodford Pub, November 1, 1999, cover price $24.95

Satchmo
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Information gleaned from exclusive access to Armstrong's manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, memorabilia, personal effects, and photographs provides a portrait of the jazz master
By Gary Giddins
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Hardcover:

9780385244282 | Dolphin Books, November 1, 1988, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Information gleaned from exclusive access to Louis Armstrong's manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, memorabilia, and personal effects and photographs from the Armstrong estate provide an engrossing portrait of the jazz master

Paperback:

9780306808135 | Da Capo Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Information gleaned from exclusive access to Armstrong's manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, memorabilia, personal effects, and photographs provides a portrait of the jazz master
9780385244299 | Reissue edition (Anchor Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Information gleaned from exclusive access to Armstrong's manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, memorabilia, personal effects, and photographs provide a portrait of the jazz master

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