so, what can people recommend to me. I've read a few jazz books, but I'm always interested in some more books. I read the biography of Chet Baker, I'm reading a book about Ira Gerswhin, and I read a book about strange fruit. Not that much, I know, but I'm a bookworm, so any recommendations are well appreciated.

I just finished reading a pseudo-biography of Wynton Marsalis called Jazz in the bittersweet blues of life. Its good. There's also a biography of Blue Note records that looks bong. Miles davis bio, the making of Kind Of Blue, and the Pelican guide to jazz is really thorough. I'd like to read a biography of Sarah Vaughan.... anyone heard of or read one?

no on e else can help? Satchmo maybe?

what am I, chopped liver?

I said, no one else...off course I thank you for your recommendations. But I was hoping there would have been more replies.

chopped liver....eeeewwwww!!

Couldn't find me a chopped liver emo-shi-con. But thanks. And yes, those are grande recommendations. You should scopeadope 'em.

guess we are the only book readers here

Well since it is your birthday.

Books written by the musicians

Duke Ellington - Music is My Mistress
Art Pepper - Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper
Miles Davis - Miles
Charles Mingus - Beneath the Underdog : His World as Composed by Mingus
Satchmo - Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings
Satchmo - Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans




Books by others about Jazz or the Musicians

Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful : A Book about Jazz


Gunther Schuller - Early Jazz
Gary Giddins - Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
Gary Giddins - Visions of Jazz: The First Century
Gary Giddins - Rhythm-a-ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation
Gary Giddins - Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
Graham Lock - Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton
Howard Reich - Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
Ashley Kahn - Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
Ashley Kahn - A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
Ashley Kahn - The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
John Szwed - So What: The Life of Miles Davis
John F. Szwed - Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

Carl Woideck - Charlie Parker : His Music and Life
Jack Chambers - Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis
James T. Lester - Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum
Laurence Bergreen - Louis Armstrong
Francis Paudras - Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell -- (the film 'Round Midnight came from this book about Bud Powell and Francis Paudras. I wouldn't believe a great of what is in it, if I were you.)
Peter Pettinger - Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
Thomas Fitterling - Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music

woo, thank you *bows politely*

I realy enjoyed: De verboden Saxofoon (the forbidden saxophone) By Rudie Kagie (about censor in Jazz)

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society and an early cry for civil Rights - By David Margolick

But Beautiful (the inside of jazz) By Geoff Dyer

and

Black Music, White Business by Frank Kofsky