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Miles Davis
Miles
Simon & Schuster
... could well be subtitled "Miles Tells All" for this volume is crammed with juicy gossip about most of the key figures in modern jazz. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Charles Mingus
Jazz Icons: Charles Mingus Live in '64
Jazz Icons
The iconoclast among icons. This DVD gives witness to three of Mingus's finest live performances, with one of his most potent groups on fire. -- Bass Player Magazine
Doug Ramsey
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
Parkside Publications, Inc.
Rarely in the annals of jazz biography has a subject's career been documented so thoroughly... a monumental work. -- Downbeat Magazine
David A. Jasen, Gene Jones
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930
Schirmer Books
An entertaining and thoughtful history of great but neglected African-American tunesmiths from the vaudeville and early jazz eras. -- Kirkus Reviews
Eric Dolphy, Stan Getz, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane
Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in ‘60, ‘61 & ‘65
DVD - Viewing these three sets is like watching the wheels of change transforming jazz itself. . . Each set is breathtaking and inspiring, and when viewed together, deadly awesome. -- Bass Player Magazine
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