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Explore 24 books like Duke Ellington by Ron Frankl — a handpicked selection united by Jazz, Genres & Styles, Music, and Juvenile Nonfiction.

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Billie Holiday The Musician and the Myth

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

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Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

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Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

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The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time Ranking, Analysis & Photos

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

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Formation Building a Personal Canon, Part I

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Swing That Music — Louis Armstrong

Swing That Music

Louis Armstrong

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

In Love with Voices A Jazz Memoir — Brian Q. Torff

In Love with Voices A Jazz Memoir

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Lady Sings the Blues — Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Komeda A Private Life in Jazz — Magdalena Grzebałkowska

Komeda A Private Life in Jazz

Magdalena Grzebałkowska

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

The Jazz of Physics The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe — Stephon Alexander

The Jazz of Physics The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

Stephon Alexander

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

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Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

His Eye Is On The Sparrow An Autobiography — Ethel Waters

His Eye Is On The Sparrow An Autobiography

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

Thelonious Monk The Life and Times of an American Original — Robin D. G. Kelley

Thelonious Monk The Life and Times of an American Original

Robin D. G. Kelley

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Bird The Life and Music of Charlie Parker — Chuck Haddix

Bird The Life and Music of Charlie Parker

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Shadowing Dizzy Gillespie 100th Year Celebration — David Goodman Brown

Shadowing Dizzy Gillespie 100th Year Celebration

David Goodman Brown

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Last Chance Texaco Chronicles of an American Troubadour — Rickie Lee Jones

Last Chance Texaco Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Rickie Lee Jones

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Softly, With Feeling Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music — Edward Berger

Softly, With Feeling Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Swing, Swing, Swing The Life & Times of Benny Goodman — Ross Firestone

Swing, Swing, Swing The Life & Times of Benny Goodman

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Sweet Swing Blues on the Road — Wynton Marsalis

Sweet Swing Blues on the Road

Wynton Marsalis

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom Spirituality and the Music — Leonard Lewis Brown

John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom Spirituality and the Music

Leonard Lewis Brown

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Can’t You Hear Me Calling The Life Of Bill Monroe, Father Of Bluegrass — Richard Smith

Can’t You Hear Me Calling The Life Of Bill Monroe, Father Of Bluegrass

Themes: Jazz • Genres & Styles • Music

Fans of Duke Ellington by Ron Frankl will find 24 titles here, all united by Jazz, Genres & Styles, Music. Authors represented include Stephanie Stein Crease, John Szwed, Damani C. Phillips, Coco Schumann, and others.

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