Black Studies: Jazz

The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia

A New History of Jazz by Alyn Shipton

Jazz : a history of America's music by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns

The Cambridge Companion to Jazz by Mervyn Cooke (Editor); Jonathan Cross (Contribution by); David Horn (Editor)

Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout

Coltrane : the story of a sound by Ben Ratliff

Billie Holiday: Essays on the Artistry and Legacy by Michael V. Perez (Editor); Jessica McKee (Editor)

So what : the life of Miles Davis by John Szwed

Duke : a life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout

Ella Fitzgerald : A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz, Updated Edition by Stuart Nicholson

Groovin' High : The Life of Dizzy Gillespie by Alyn Shipton

Myself When I Am Real : The Life and Music of Charles Mingus by Gene Santoro

Thelonious Monk : the life and times of an American original by Robin D. G. Kelley

Bird : The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix

Dance of the infidels : a portrait of Bud Powell by Francis Paudras; Rubye Monet (Translator)

Space Is the Place : the lives and times of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed

Too Marvelous for Words : The Life and Genius of Art Tatum by James Lester

Someone to Watch Over Me : The Life and Music of Ben Webster by Frank Büchmann-Møller

Being Prez : The Life and Music of Lester Young by Dave Gelly

Reading Jazz : a Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now by Robert Gottlieb (Editor)

What Is This Thing Called Jazz? : African American Musicians As Artists, Critics, and Activists by Eric Porter

The power of Black music : interpreting its history from Africa to the United States by Samuel A. Floyd

John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom : Spirituality and the Music by Leonard Brown

Africa Speaks, America Answers : Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times by Robin D. G. Kelley

A Power Stronger Than Itself : The AACM and American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis

Digging : The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka

Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans by Richard Brent Turner; Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

The Product of Our Souls : Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace by David W. Gilbert