The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

Larry Tye

Living with Music: Jazz Writings

Ralph Ellison

Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker

James Gavin

As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution 1957–1977

Val Wilmer

Oh, Play That Thing

Roddy Doyle

On the Rooftop

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Horn

John Clellon Holmes

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Oscar Hijuelos

The Bass Saxophone

Josef. Skvorecky

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece

Ashley Kahn

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

Stanley Crouch

Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century

Nate Chinen

John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)

Lewis Porter

Beneath the Underdog

Charles Mingus

Music is My Mistress

Duke Ellington

Half-Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan

Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems

Bob Kaufman

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

Geoff Dyer

Black Music

Amiri Baraka

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Young Man with a Horn (New York Review Books Classics)

Dorothy Baker

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Robin D.G. Kelley

Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin

Another Country

James Baldwin

Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)

Toni Morrison

Romance in Marseille

Claude McKay

The Weary Blues

Langston Hughes