But Beautiful
1991 · 240 pages
Dyer imagines his way into the nights of jazz musicians, Lester Young after the army broke him and Thelonious Monk alone at a piano, inventing scenes to reach what no biography can.
★ 6.2
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The History of Jazz
1997 · 608 pages
Gioia plays jazz piano and writes criticism, and both show in the single history worth owning, which runs from the New Orleans brass bands through bebop and Coltrane to what is played now.
★ 5.1