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Satchmo by Louis Armstrong
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd... -
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans by Thomas Brothers
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £21.93In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories, and Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness. A dark-skinned, impoverished... -
Who Was Louis Armstrong? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.08If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw... -
Saint Louis Armstrong Beach by Brenda Woods 9780142421864
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Nutmeg Book Award (Intermediate) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780142421864Author Brenda Woods -
Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong by Gary Giddins 9780306810138
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" ( Esquire ). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the century. Together this auspicious pairing... -
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout 9780547386379
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547386379Author Terry TeachoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong by Lesa Cline-Ransome
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823452408Author Lesa Cline-RansomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint -
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong by Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823434282
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823434282Author Lesa Cline-RansomeFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint -
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff 9780571232741
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and... -
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye 9780063444867
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063444867Author Larry TyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.04In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. Covering everything from the music's structure and history... -
Beneath The Underdog Charles Mingus 9781782118824
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished,... -
Texas Jazz Singer, Volume 25: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond by Kevin Mooney
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £11.60At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that... -
Live Like Louis!: Inspiring Stories From the Life of Louis Armstrong to Help You Lead a More Wonderful Life by Phil Lynch 9780615679082
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The Mobster's Lament by Ray Celestin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the bestselling author of The Axeman's Jazz, Ray Celestin's The Mobster's Lament is a gripping tale of crime and jazz music, and the third entry in his City Blues Quartet. A gangster is on his... -
A Child's Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World's Coolest Music by Jabari Asim
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68Get ready to swing with A Child's Introduction to Jazz, an interactive journey into one of the richest and most soulful music genres in the world. Listen while you learn with QR codes that will... -
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots by Richard Lee Kennedy
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In a piano factory tucked away in Richmond, Indiana, Gennett Records produced thousands of records featuring obscure musicians from hotel orchestras and backwoods fiddlers to the future icons of... -
Music Genres: Jazz Trudy Becker 9798889982579
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62This engaging book describes jazz music's key characteristics, history, and place in popular music today. It also feature an "Artist Spotlight" special feature, informative sidebars, a table of... -
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper by Art Pepper
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Art Pepper was described as the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Straight Life, originally narrated on tape to his wife Laurie, is an explosive work chronicling his... -
Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin 9781529065626
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel... -
Beyond Psychoppression: A Feminist Alternative Therapy by Betty McLellan 9781875559336
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74A guide to therapy, Beyond Psychoppression explores the intersection between the personal and the political. Betty McLellan surveys the development of psychotherapy and exposes the oppressive... -
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Geoff Dyer 9780857864024
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight... -
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The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin 9781447258889 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.47Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year. Shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award As recommended on the Radio 2 Arts Show... -
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of black people in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an... -
Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll by Rick Coleman 9780306815317
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.47While many think of Elvis Presley as rock 'n' roll's driving force, the truth is that Fats Domino, whose records have sold more than 100 million copies, was the first to put it on the map with such... -
Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World by Martha Long
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the... -
Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams by Clifford R. Murphy 9780252087981
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo "Ink" Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in... -
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Constellation of Genius by Kevin Jackson 9780091930974 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.62Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered the cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding... -
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Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle 9780099477655 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the... -
Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the... -
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Movie Mistakes: Take 3 by Jon Sandys 9780753509128 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.70Ever noticed a digital watch in a historical film? Or seen a camera crew in a mirror? There's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder... -
Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration by Thomas Brothers
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.30The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating... -
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78WINNER OF THE CALDECOTT MEDAL, THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD, THE KATE GREENAWAY SHADOWER'S CHOICE AWARD AND A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK. This is for the unforgettable. The unafraid. The undefeated. From... -
Never Too Young!: 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference Aileen Weintraub 9781454929178
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64"Young readers are sure to find inspiration as they read about unique children from all over the world who were able to change the world around them and be encouraged to follow their dreams and fight... -
Playful Painting: People: Whimsical projects and clever techniques for painting any likeness - from family and friends to the rich and famous by Sarah Walsh
Booksplease Price: £4.92Playful Painting: People offers a quirky take on portrait instruction. Sharpen your skills with 16 step-by-step projects, including a mixed-media Frida Kahlo, a colorful '80s girl, an ad man from the... -
Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography by Sidney Bechet 9780306811081
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.33A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played with such fellow jazz legends as Louis Armstrong,... -
Sittin' In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s by Jeff Gold
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.26A rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy... -
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire by Laurence Bergreen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78"FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the... -
Little Artist Board Book Set by Emily Kleinman 9780735355729
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.40Mudpuppy's Little Artist Board Book Set is comprised of 16 colorfully illustrated portraits of visual and performing artists who have made an historical impact on the world. This board book set... -
Ace of Clubs: A Celebration of the 100 Club by Digby Fairweather 9781858587288
Booksplease Price: £14.21During its eighty years under London's legendary Oxford Street everyone from Louis Armstrong to rock icons the Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols and Chuck Berry have played the historic 100 Club. In Ace of...