A Dandy in Harlem

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

By Jeffrey C Stewart

Innovators & Impresarios

Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J Gleason Interviews

By Toby Gleason (ed)

Jazz Worlds/World Jazz

By Philip V Bohlman & Goffredo Plastino

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday: The Musician & the Myth

By John Szwed

Across 110th Street

Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Nation Building

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

By Manning Marable

Folk Hero

The Man Who Recorded the World: A Biography of Alan Lomax

By John Szwed

Roll With The Punches

Joe Louis: Hard Times Man

By Randy Roberts

Nonblackness

The History of White People

By Nell Irvin Painter

A Kind Of Blues

Jazz

By Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux

Duke Ellington’s America

By Harvey G Cohen

Both Sides of the Tracks

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

By Thomas Brothers

Duke: The Life of Duke Ellington

By Terry Teachout