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