Miles Kington

A Musician Who is Blacker Than Most

Miles: The Autobiography

By Miles Davis (with Quincy Troupe)

A History of Jazz in Britain, 1950–1970

By Jim Godbolt

Daniel Matlin

Innovators & Impresarios

Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J Gleason Interviews

By Toby Gleason (ed)

Jazz Worlds/World Jazz

By Philip V Bohlman & Goffredo Plastino

Jane Dunn

Heroine on Heroin

Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday

By Donald Clarke

Daniel Matlin

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday: The Musician & the Myth

By John Szwed

William Palmer

Music to Make You Smile

Stéphane Grappelli: With and Without Django

By Paul Balmer

William Palmer

The Ragman’s Trumpet

Daniel Matlin

A Kind Of Blues

Jazz

By Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux

Duke Ellington’s America

By Harvey G Cohen

William Palmer

Sax Life: Five Books About Jazz

Gulliver Ralston

Key Players

A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians – from Mozart to Modern Jazz, and Everything in Between

By Stuart Isacoff

Daniel Matlin

Both Sides of the Tracks

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

By Thomas Brothers

Duke: The Life of Duke Ellington

By Terry Teachout