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Readers who finished Chicago Jazz The Second Line by Derek Coller and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Jazz, Genres & Styles, Music, and Biography & Autobiography.

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A Little Devil in America In Praise of Black Performance — Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America In Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

The Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker A Discography — Edward Komara

The Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker A Discography

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts — Jools Holland

Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Dizzy The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie — Donald L. Maggin

Dizzy The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie

Donald L. Maggin

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Moving to Higher Ground How Jazz Can Change Your Life — Wynton Marsalis

Moving to Higher Ground How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Wynton Marsalis

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

A Call to Assembly An American Success Story — Willie Ruff

A Call to Assembly An American Success Story

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Kansas City Lightning The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker — Stanley Crouch

Kansas City Lightning The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

I Put A Spell On You The Autobiography Of Nina Simone — Nina Simone

I Put A Spell On You The Autobiography Of Nina Simone

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Coltrane on Coltrane The John Coltrane Interviews — Chris DeVito

Coltrane on Coltrane The John Coltrane Interviews

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

From Birdland to Broadway Scenes from a Jazz Life — Bill Crow

From Birdland to Broadway Scenes from a Jazz Life

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Rhythm Man Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America — Stephanie Stein Crease

Rhythm Man Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America

Stephanie Stein Crease

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Easily Slip into Another World A Life in Music — Henry Threadgill

Easily Slip into Another World A Life in Music

Henry Threadgill

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers — Will Friedwald

A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Jaco The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius — Bill Milkowski

Jaco The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

3 Shades of Blue Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool — James Kaplan

3 Shades of Blue Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Sarah Vaughan A Discography — Fulcran Vigouroux

Sarah Vaughan A Discography

Fulcran Vigouroux

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Jazz Masters Of The 30s — Rex Stewart

Jazz Masters Of The 30s

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

The Performance of Authenticity The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography — Teófilo Espada-Brignoni

The Performance of Authenticity The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography

Teófilo Espada-Brignoni

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Tatum’s Town The Story of Jazz in Toledo, Ohio (1915-1985) — Bob Dietsche

Tatum’s Town The Story of Jazz in Toledo, Ohio (1915-1985)

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Go Ahead John The Music of John McLaughlin — Paul Stump

Go Ahead John The Music of John McLaughlin

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Never Givin’ Up The Life and Music of Al Jarreau — Kurt Dietrich

Never Givin’ Up The Life and Music of Al Jarreau

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Godfather of the Music Business Morris Levy — Richard Carlin

Godfather of the Music Business Morris Levy

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

David Benoit — Anthology Piano Solos — David Benoit

David Benoit — Anthology Piano Solos

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Dilla Time The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm — Dan Charnas

Dilla Time The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Jazz, Genres & Styles, Music — the same threads that run through Chicago Jazz The Second Line by Derek Coller. Among the authors featured: Hanif Abdurraqib, Edward Komara, Jools Holland, Donald L. Maggin, and others.

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