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Product Description: More than any other musician, Herbie Mann was responsible for establishing the flute as an accepted jazz instrument. Prior to his arrival, the flute was a secondary instrument for saxophonists, but Mann found a unique voice for the flute, presenting it in different musical contexts, beginning with Afro-Cuban, and then continuing with music from Brazil, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Japan, and Eastern Europe...read more

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9781458419811, titled "The Evolution of Mann: Herbie Mann & the Flute in Jazz" | Hal Leonard Corp, March 1, 2014, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: More than any other musician, Herbie Mann was responsible for establishing the flute as an accepted jazz instrument.

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Product Description: Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he has led from 1954, after parting company with trumpeter Ken Colyer, that has established all kinds of records for success and longevity...read more
By Alyn Shipton (contributor)

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9781845530884 | Equinox, March 15, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he has led from 1954, after parting company with trumpeter Ken Colyer, that has established all kinds of records for success and longevity.
9780299068400, titled "University of Wisconsin: 125 Years" | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $15.00 | also contains University of Wisconsin: 125 Years

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Product Description: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.] [Read by Kevin Kenerly]Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America...read more

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9781482967654 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2014), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.

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Product Description: Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of life at all too early an age, A.J. Albany guides us through dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hollywood shadowy underbelly and beyond. A. J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the great jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education...read more

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9781582343334 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, April 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The daughter of the renowned jazz pianist Joe Albany chronicles her childhood with her famous father, offering a portrait of the jazz scene in Hollywood's underbelly during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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9781935639763 | Reprint edition (Tin House Books, November 12, 2013), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of life at all too early an age, A.
9781582344058 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, April 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The daughter of the renowned jazz pianist Joe Albany chronicles her childhood with her famous father, offering a gritty portrait of the jazz scene in Hollywood's underbelly during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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9781617038617 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, October 7, 2013, cover price $35.00

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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

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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

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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

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Product Description: Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band. He arranged for names like Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, and Dizzy Gillespie and played with Bull Moose Jackson and Benny Golson...read more

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9780472114139 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 19, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band.

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9780472035632 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, August 6, 2013), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band.

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Product Description: (Berklee Press). Winner "Best Book of the Year" 2014 award from the Jazz Journalists Association. In Learning to Listen , Gary Burton shares his 50 years of experiences at the top of the jazz scene. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Burton made his first recordings at age 17, has toured and recorded with a who's who of famous jazz names, and is one of only a few openly gay musicians in jazz...read more
By Gary Burton and Neil Tesser (editor)

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9780876391402 | Berklee Pr Pubns, August 1, 2013, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: (Berklee Press).

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Product Description: The life of jazz trumpeter Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1942) resembles nothing less than an ancient Greek tragedy: a heroic figure who rises from obscurity to dizzying heights, touches greatness, becomes ensnared by circumstances, and comes to a disastrous early end...read more

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9780810881525 | Scarecrow Pr, September 29, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: The life of jazz trumpeter Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1942) resembles nothing less than an ancient Greek tragedy: a heroic figure who rises from obscurity to dizzying heights, touches greatness, becomes ensnared by circumstances, and comes to a disastrous early end.

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9780810888746 | Reprint edition (Scarecrow Pr, July 25, 2013), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: The life of jazz trumpeter Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1942) resembles nothing less than an ancient Greek tragedy: a heroic figure who rises from obscurity to dizzying heights, touches greatness, becomes ensnared by circumstances, and comes to a disastrous early end.

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9780253009098 | 2 edition (Indiana Univ Pr, April 18, 2013), cover price $25.00

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Product Description: "Music has been in my blood from the day I was born," said Louis Armstrong. He rose from a troubled childhood and a life of poverty to set the music world on fire. Armstrong's lively trumpet playing, trademark "scat" singing, and natural talent for showmanship dazzled audiences for more than fifty years...read more

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9781464402005 | Enslow Elementary, January 1, 2013, cover price $9.35 | also contains Louis Armstrong: King of Jazz, Louis Armstrong: King of Jazz

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9780766041066 | Enslow Elementary, January 1, 2013, cover price $22.60 | About this edition: "Music has been in my blood from the day I was born," said Louis Armstrong.

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Product Description: Here is the illustrated history of Miles Davis, the world’s most popular jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and musical visionary. Davis is one of the most innovative, influential, and respected figures in the history of music...read more
By Ashley Kahn (contributor)

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9780760342626 | Voyageur Pr, November 19, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Here is the illustrated history of Miles Davis, the world’s most popular jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and musical visionary.

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Product Description: As part of the growing literature on theology and the arts, God's Mind in that Music explores the substantial theological insight expressed in the music of jazz legend John Coltrane. Focusing on eight of Coltrane's pieces, themes under consideration include lament ("Alabama"), improvisation ("My Favorite Things" and "Ascension"), grace ("A Love Supreme"), and the Trinity ("The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost")...read more

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9781620321560 | Wipf & Stock Pub, October 17, 2012, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: As part of the growing literature on theology and the arts, God's Mind in that Music explores the substantial theological insight expressed in the music of jazz legend John Coltrane.

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Product Description: Although Vince Guaraldi's playful jazz piano themes for the early Peanuts animated television specials are well known, the composer himself remains largely unheralded. More than merely "the Peanuts guy," Guaraldi cut his jazz teeth as a member of combos fronted by Cal Tjader and Woody Herman, and garnered Top 40 fame with his Grammy Award-winning hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind...read more
By Derrick Bang and Charles Gompertz (foreword by)

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9780786459025 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 15, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Although Vince Guaraldi's playful jazz piano themes for the early Peanuts animated television specials are well known, the composer himself remains largely unheralded.

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Product Description: Biography of famous Jazz composer written for ages 10-13.

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9781612282725 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, June 15, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Biography of famous Jazz composer written for ages 10-13.

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Product Description: In this richly detailed and prodigiously researched book, jazz scholar and musician Ricky Riccardi reveals for the first time the genius and remarkable achievements of the last 25 years of Louis Armstrong’s life, providing along the way a comprehensive study of one of the best-known and most accomplished jazz stars of our time...read more

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9780307378446 | Pantheon Books, June 21, 2011, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Prodigiously researched and richly detailed, this is a comprehensive account of the remarkable final twenty-five years of the life and art of one of America’s greatest and most beloved musical icons.

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9780307473295 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 5, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this richly detailed and prodigiously researched book, jazz scholar and musician Ricky Riccardi reveals for the first time the genius and remarkable achievements of the last 25 years of Louis Armstrong’s life, providing along the way a comprehensive study of one of the best-known and most accomplished jazz stars of our time.

Miscellaneous:

9780307379238 | Pantheon Books, June 7, 2011, cover price $27.50

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9781612282688 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 17, 2012, cover price $29.95

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