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Jazz musicians

A Cold Heart

Jonathan Kellerman

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Jazz

Mervyn Cooke

Traces the history of jazz from its roots in Africa through the modern era, and includes information about some of the great performers of the genre.

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Count Basie

Bud Kliment

Examines the life and career of a famous twentieth-century jazz musician.

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Duke Ellington

Gene Brown

A biography of the renowned pianist, composer, and band leader who, in his more than fifty-year career, left a deep impression on jazz and popular music.

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Duke Ellington

Ron Frankl

Chronicles the life of internationally-acclaimed jazz musician Duke Ellington, from the Harlem Renaissance through his later years.

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Four Lives in the Bebop Business

A. B. Spellman

The careers of saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Jackie McLean, and pianists Cecil Taylor and Herbie Nichols, are probed to reveal the realities of being a Negro jazz musician in America.

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