Subject: Jazz › History and criticism

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• Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka (251 copies)
• Jazz; A History of America’s Music by Geoffrey C. Ward (233 copies)
• The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia (188 copies)
• Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn (132 copies)
• Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz by Eric Hobsbawm (110 copies)
• Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins (106 copies)
• Jazz Styles: History and Analysis by Mark C. Gridley (91 copies)
• The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond by Joachim-Ernst Berendt (88 copies)
• Jazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book) by Leo & Diane Dillon (69 copies)
• The Story of Jazz (Galaxy Books) by Marshall W. Stearns (67 copies)
• Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation… by Paul F. Berliner (66 copies)
• Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings by Ralph Ellison (65 copies)
• Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men… by Nat Shapiro (60 copies)
• Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (History of… by Gunther Schuller (54 copies)
• New History of Jazz by Alyn Shipton (48 copies)
• As Serious As Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz (Five… by Valerie Wilmer (45 copies)
• The Jazz Tradition by Martin Williams (45 copies)
• The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records by Ashley Kahn (44 copies)
• Black Music by Imamu Amiri Baraka (44 copies)
• Stomping the Blues by Albert Murray (41 copies)
• Blue Note Records: The Biography by Richard Cook (41 copies)
• Jazz (Npr Curious Listener's Guide) by Loren Schoenberg (41 copies)
• The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (The… by Gunther Schuller (41 copies)
• The Big Bands by George Thomas Simon (40 copies)
• Jazz by John Fordham (39 copies)
• The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece by Eric Nisenson (38 copies)
• Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century by Gary Giddins (37 copies)
• The Duke Ellington Reader by Mark Tucker (37 copies)
• Giants of Jazz by Studs Terkel (37 copies)
• The Jazz Age: The 20s (Our American Century) by Time-Life Books (36 copies)
• Jazz: A History by Frank Tirro (36 copies)
• The Oxford Companion to Jazz by Bill Kirchner (35 copies)
• A Century of Jazz by Roy Carr (34 copies)
• The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 (A Da Capo… by John Litweiler (34 copies)
• The Making of Jazz by James Lincoln Collier (31 copies)
• The 101 Best Jazz Albums: A History of Jazz on Records by Len Lyons (31 copies)
• A Pictorial History of Jazz: People and Places from New… by Orrin Keepnews (30 copies)
• Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings by Louis Armstrong (27 copies)
• The Da Capo Jazz and Blues Lover's Guide to the United… by Christiane Bird (25 copies)
• Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History by Robert Walser (25 copies)
• Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence by Andre Hodeir (25 copies)
• The New Grove Gospel Blues and Jazz: With Spirituals and… by Paul Oliver (25 copies)
• Jazz Is by Nat Hentoff (25 copies)
• Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music by Frank Kofsky (25 copies)
• The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture… by Ted Gioia (24 copies)
• Jazz: New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by Twelve of… by Nat Hentoff (24 copies)
• Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and… by Alfred Jr Appel (23 copies)
• Boston Boy: Growing Up With Jazz and Other Rebellious… by Nat Hentoff (21 copies)
• I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir (Aporia) by Rafi Zabor (21 copies)
• Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz by Stanley Crouch (21 copies)

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