Pete Clark

The King Who Liked his Hamburgers Well Done

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

By Peter Guralnick

William Palmer

Miles from Nowhere

So What: The Life of Miles Davis

By John Szwed

Rupert Christiansen

Up in the Gods

Magnificence: Onstage at the Met

By Robert Jacobson

Christopher Bray

Folk Hero

Bob Dylan in America

By Sean Wilentz

William Palmer

Music & Rum

Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba’s First All-Girl Dance Band

By Alicia Castro, with Ingrid Kummels (Translated by Steven Murray)

Charles Shaar Murray

Purple Reign

Prince

By Matt Thorne

Daniel Matlin

Both Sides of the Tracks

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

By Thomas Brothers

Duke: The Life of Duke Ellington

By Terry Teachout

Charles Shaar Murray

Doomed Poets in Romantic Squalor

Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel

By Sherill Tippins