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Explore 24 books like Ray Charles by Stéphane Ollivier — a handpicked selection united by Jazz, Music, Juvenile Nonfiction, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Nina Jazz Legend and Civil-Rights Activist Nina Simone — Alice Brière-Haquet

Nina Jazz Legend and Civil-Rights Activist Nina Simone — Alice Brière-Haquet

Alice Brie`re-Haquet

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound — Kathleen Cornell Berman

Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound

Kathleen Cornell Berman

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

A Horn for Louis — Eric A. Kimmel

A Horn for Louis

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Mary’s Idea — Chris Raschka

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Piano Starts Here The Young Art Tatum — Robert Andrew Parker

Piano Starts Here The Young Art Tatum

Robert Andrew Parker

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Joni The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell — Selina Alko

Joni The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Harlem’s Little Blackbird — Renee Watson

Harlem’s Little Blackbird — Renee Watson

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Who Was Duke Ellington? — M. D. Payne

Who Was Duke Ellington?

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Trombone Shorty — Troy Andrews

Trombone Shorty

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Roots and Blues A Celebration — Arnold Adoff

Roots and Blues A Celebration

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist — Susan Wood

Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

If I Only Had a Horn Young Louis Armstrong — Roxane Orgill

If I Only Had a Horn Young Louis Armstrong

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Harlem’s Little Blackbird The Story of Florence Mills — Renée Watson

Harlem’s Little Blackbird The Story of Florence Mills

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History — Lesa Cline-Ransome

Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening — Chris Raschka

The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz — Jonah Winter

How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

On the Line: My Story of Becoming the First African American Rockette — Jennifer Jones

On the Line: My Story of Becoming the First African American Rockette

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

Duke Ellington — Ron Frankl

Themes: Jazz • Music • Juvenile Nonfiction

A Pure Solar World Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism — Paul Youngquist

A Pure Solar World Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

Paul Youngquist

Themes: Jazz • Music • Biography & Autobiography

Arranging Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon

Ryan Raul Bañagale

Themes: Jazz • Music • Biography & Autobiography

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation — Ben Watson

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

Themes: Jazz • Music • Biography & Autobiography

Jelly Roll Blues Censored Songs and Hidden Histories — Elijah Wald

Jelly Roll Blues Censored Songs and Hidden Histories

Themes: Jazz • Music • Biography & Autobiography

Wishing on the Moon The Life and Times of Billie Holiday — Donald Clarke

Wishing on the Moon The Life and Times of Billie Holiday

Themes: Jazz • Music • Biography & Autobiography

Shadowing Dizzy Gillespie 100th Year Celebration — David Goodman Brown

Shadowing Dizzy Gillespie 100th Year Celebration

David Goodman Brown

Themes: Jazz • Music • Biography & Autobiography

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Ray Charles by Stéphane Ollivier. Connected by Jazz, Music, Juvenile Nonfiction. Authors featured include Alice Brie`re-Haquet, Kathleen Cornell Berman, Eric A. Kimmel, Chris Raschka, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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