Books
Jazz: A History of America’s Music by Geoffrey Ward
The History of Bones: a memoir by John Lurie
Footnotes: the Black artists who rewrote the rules of the Great White Way by Caseen Gaines.
The Jazz Revolution: Twenties American & the meaning of Jazz by Kathy J. Ogren
Smoketown by Mark Whitaker
Queen of bebop: the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M. Hayes
You Can’t Steal a Gift by Gene Lees
Satchmo blows up the world: Jazz Ambassadors play the Cold War by Penny M. Von Eschen
Irving Berlin by James Kaplan
33 Revolutions per minute by Dorian Lynskey
Musicians
Images left to right: Cole Porter, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Jon Batiste, George Gershwin, Billie Holiday, Kenny G, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald
Fiction Books
Swing by Kwame Alexander
The Haters by Jesse Andrews
Wonderful Feels Like This by Sara Lövestam
David and Ameena by Ami Rao
This Lovely City by Louise Hare
Rhapsody by Mitchell James Kaplan
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
