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• Miles by Miles Davis (546 copies)
• Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Davis Pinkney (398 copies)
• Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus by Charles Mingus (288 copies)
• Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook (176 copies)
• Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka (128 copies)
• Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story by Ray Charles (97 copies)
• Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu (93 copies)
• Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed (92 copies)
• Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow (90 copies)
• Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography by Ian Carr (89 copies)
• Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones (87 copies)
• Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney (81 copies)
• Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie… by Ross Russell (80 copies)
• Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (Da Capo Paperback) by Louis Armstrong (76 copies)
• Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New… by Alan Lomax (76 copies)
• Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff (76 copies)
• Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius by Bill Milkowski (74 copies)
• Music Is My Mistress (Da Capo Paperback) by Duke Ellington (72 copies)
• John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American… by Lewis Porter (71 copies)
• Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin (69 copies)
• Dizzy by Jonah Winter (68 copies)
• Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper by Art Pepper (68 copies)
• Louis Armstrong by Laurence Bergreen (67 copies)
• Chet Baker: As Though I Had Wings by Chet Baker (67 copies)
• Bill Evans; How My Heart Sings by Peter Pettinger (63 copies)
• The Big Bands by George Thomas Simon (62 copies)
• Louis Armstrong: An American Genius by James Lincoln Collier (53 copies)
• Who's Who in Jazz by John Chilton (50 copies)
• Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest by Eric Nisenson (49 copies)
• Tonight At Noon: A Love Story by Sue Graham Mingus (45 copies)
• Beyond Category: The Life And Genius Of Duke Ellington by John Edward Hasse (45 copies)
• Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life by Wynton Marsalis (44 copies)
• Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton… by Graham Lock (43 copies)
• Duke Ellington (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… by Mike Venezia (38 copies)
• Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk by Leslie Gourse (38 copies)
• If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong by Roxane Orgill (38 copies)
• John Coltrane by Bill Cole (37 copies)
• Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings by Louis Armstrong (36 copies)
• Mingus: A Critical Biography (Da Capo Paperback) by Brian Priestley (35 copies)
• Monk by Laurent De Wilde (33 copies)
• Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis by J. K. Chambers (31 copies)
• Louis Armstrong's New Orleans by Thomas Brothers (30 copies)
• Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie by Count Basie (30 copies)
• Miles and Me (George Gund Foundation Book in African… by Quincy Troupe (28 copies)
• To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie (A Da Capo… by Dizzy Gillespie (28 copies)
• Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly… by Howard Reich (28 copies)
• Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life by John Litweiler (28 copies)
• Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie by Alyn Shipton (27 copies)
• Benny Goodman and the Swing Era by James Lincoln Collier (26 copies)
• Sweet Swing Blues on the Road by Wynton Marsalis (26 copies)

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