Bill Douglass - SJS ARCHIVE: BOOKS - RECORDINGS
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| AUTOBIOGRAPHIES |
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| Miles, The Autobiography |
Miles Davis |
Unfinished Dream,
The Musical World of Red Callender |
Red Callender |
| The Autobiography of Count Basie |
Count Basie |
| Teddy Wilson Talks Jazz |
Teddy Wilson |
| Footprints |
Wayne Shorter |
The Trouble with Cinderella,
An Outline of Identity |
Artie Shaw |
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| BIOGRAPHIES |
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| John Coltrane |
Bill Cole |
| Coltrane, A Biography |
C.O. Simpkins |
| John Coltrane, His Life And Music |
Lewis Porter |
| Coltrane, the Story of A Sound |
Ben Ratliff |
| Coltrane, Chasin' the Trane |
J.C. Thomas |
Ascension,
John Coltrane And his Quest |
Eric Nisenson |
| The World of Duke Ellington |
Stanley Dance |
| Reminiscing in Tempo, A Portrait of Duke Ellington |
Stuart Nicholson |
Duke Ellington In Person,
An Intimate Memoir |
Mercer Ellington |
| Monk |
Laurent DeWilde |
| Thelonious Monk, His Life and Music |
Thomas Fetterling |
Straight No Chaser,
The Life and Genius of T.Monk |
Leslie Gourse |
| Thelonious Monk-The Life and Times of an American Original |
Robin D. G. Kelley |
| Round About Midnight, A portrait of Miles Davis |
Eric Nisenson |
| Miles Davis, The Definitive Biography |
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| Jade Visions-The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro |
Helene LaFaro Fernandez |
| Ornette Coleman, His Life and Music |
Peter Nikalas Wilson |
| Ornette Coleman, A Harmelodic Life |
John Litweiler |
| Klook , The Story of Kenny Clarke |
Mark Hennessey |
Dance of the Infidels,
A Portrait of Bud Powell |
Francis Paudras |
Eric Dolphy, A Musical Biography and Discography |
Vladimer Simosko |
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| COMMENTARY |
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John Coltrane Companion,
Five Decades of Commentary |
Edited by: Carl Woldeck |
| Miles Davis Reader |
Bill Kirchner |
| The Duke Ellington Reader |
Edited by: Mark Tucker |
| The Thelonious Monk Reader |
Edited by: Rob van der Blick |
| A Lester Young Reader |
Edited by: Lewis Porter |
| Reading Jazz |
Edited by: Robert Gottlieb |
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| HISTORY |
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| Jazzography Profiles
of Regional Jazz Musicians Who Perform in San Francisco |
Mars Breslow - Dan Guarldi |
Deep Down in Music,
the Art of Great Jazz Bassists |
Leslie Gourse |
| Jazz in Black and White, Race, Culture and Identity in the Jazz Community |
Charlie Gerard |
| Lost Chords, White Musicians and their Contributions to Jazz, 1915 to 1945 |
Richard M. Sudhalter |
You Can't Steal a Gift,
Dizzy, Clark, Milt and Matt |
Gene Lees |
| Visions of Jazz, the First Century |
Gary Giddins |
Thinking in Jazz,
The Infinite Art of Improvisition |
Paul F. Berliner |
| Riding on a Blue Note, Jazz and American Pop |
Garry Giddins |
| Jazz in its Time |
Martin Williams |
| Jazz, Black and White |
Gene Lees |
| The History of Jazz |
Ted Gioia |
| Jazz Styles |
Mark C. Gridley |
The Birth Of BeBop,
A Social and Musical History |
Scott BeVaus |
| Blue, the Murder of Jazz |
Eric Nisenson |
| Jazz, America's Classical Music |
Grover Sales |
| The Devil's Horn, The Story of the Saxophone – from noisy novelty to King of Cool |
Michel Segell |
The History of the Blues:
The Roots,
the Music, the People |
Francis Davis |
| Blue Note Records |
Richard Cook |
| In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980's |
Francis Davis |
| Giants of Jazz |
Studs Terkel |
| Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz, The Swing Years |
Burt Korall |
| Blues People |
LeRoi Jones |
| And They All Sang |
Studs Terkel |
| Giant Steps: BeBop and the Creation of Modern Jazz, 1945-1965 |
Kenny Mathieson |
| The Story of Jazz |
Marshall W. Sterns |
Time Magazine cover story on Thelonious Monk
Feb.28th, 1964- Original Copy |
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Backstory in Blue.
Ellington at Newport, 1956 |
John Fass Morton |
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| INTERVIEWS |
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| Black Music, Four Lives: Cecil Taylor, Ornette Colman, Herbie Nichols and Jackie McClean |
A.B. Spellman |
| Talking Jazz: An Oral History, 43 Jazz Conversations |
Ben Sidrian |
| Notes and Tones: Musician to Musician Interview |
Arthur Taylor |
| The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of their Lives and Music |
Len Lyons |
| The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music |
Ben Ratliff |
| The Mastery of Music: 10 Pathways to True Artistry |
Barry Green |
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| MEMOIRS |
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| Duke Ellington, Music is my Mistress |
Duke Ellington |
| Miles and Me |
Quincy Trupe |
| Born Under the Sun of Jazz, Public Faces Private Moments |
Randi Hulpin |
| Stopping Time, Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz w/CD |
Paul Bley |
| Live at the Village Vanguard |
Max Gordon |
| Jazz Anecdotes |
Bill Crow |
| Musings, The Musical World of Gunther Schuller |
Gunther Schuller |
| The View from Within, Jazz Writings, 1948-1987 |
Orrin Keepnews |
| All in Good Time |
Mary McPartland |
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| MISC. |
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| Jazz Styles-History and Analysis |
Mark C. Gridley |
| The Raga Guide: A survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas with CD's |
No author |
| The Listening Book |
W.A. Mathieu |
| The Musical Life |
W.A. Mathieu |
| Tone Deaf and All Thumbs: An Invitation to Music Making |
Frank R. Wilson |
| The Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music |
Compiled by: Nat Shapiro |
| The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia |
Theodore Lavin |
| A Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time |
Nicholas Sloninsky |
| The Mystery of the Seven Vowels |
Joscelyn Godwin |
| Jade Flute: The Stor of Chinese Music |
T.C. Lai and Robert Mok |
| Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music |
Anthony Ashton |
| The Seventh Dragon: The Riddle of Equal Temperment |
Anita T. Sullivan |
| A very large collection of books and music about the Gurdjieff Work - his own writings, as well as many books about him and the ideas G. I. Gurdjieff brought to the West in the 20th Century. |
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| BOOKS – PICTORIAL HISTORY |
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| Harlem of the West , The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era |
Elizabeth Pepin & Lewis Watts |
| Baseline: The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton |
Milt Hinton |
| Jazz: A History of America's Music |
Jeoffey Ward and Ken Burns |
| Blue Note Jazz Photography of Francis Wolff |
Francis Wolff |
| The Great Jazz Day (The Great Day in Harlem Photo) |
Numerous photographers |
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| BOOKS - RECORDINGS |
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| A Love Supreme |
Ashley Kahn |
| The Making of Kind of Blue |
Eric Nisenson |
| Kind of Blue, The Making of Miles Davis' Masterpiece |
Ashley Kahn |
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| BOOKS - THEORY |
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| Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer |
Ken Rattenbury |
| What to Listen for in Jazz w/ CD |
Barry Kernfeld |
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