List of jazz biographies
This is a list of English language book-length biographies and autobiographies of notable jazz musicians. The list is alphabetical by subject. Within subject, books are listed alphabetically by author. A list of related works contains books of related interest that do not meet the criteria for the main list: biographical collections, interview collections, and so on. This list is alphabetical by author.
Main list
Allen, RedArmstrong, Louis
Baker, Chet
Barber, Chris
Barker, Danny
Basie, Count
Bechet, Sidney
Beiderbecke, Bix
Berigan, Bunny
Blake, Eubie
Bolden, Buddy
Breau, Lenny
Burton, Gary
Brown, Clifford
Bushell, Garvin
Christian, Charlie
Coleman, Ornette
Coltrane, John
Condon, Eddie
Davis, Miles
Desmond, Paul
Dodds, Baby
Dorsey, Tommy
Eldridge, Roy
Ellington, Duke
Evans, Bill
Freeman, Bud
Getz, Stan
Gillespie, Dizzy
Goodman, Benny
Gordon, Dexter
Green Grant
Hampton, Lionel
Hawes, Hampton
Hawkins, Coleman
Heath, Jimmy
Henderson, Fletcher
Hendricks, Jon
Herman, Woody
Hersch, Fred
Hines, Earl
Hinton, Milt
Holiday, Billie
James, Harry
Jarrett, Keith
Johnson, Bunk
Johnson, J. J.
Johnson, James P.
Kessel, Barney
Kirk, Andy
Kirk, Rahsaan Roland
Konitz, Lee
LaFaro, Scott
Lunceford, Jimmie
Marsh, Warne
Mehldau, Brad
Metheny, Pat
Mezzrow, Mezz
Mingus, Charles
Monk, Thelonious
Morgan, Lee
Morton, Jelly Roll
Murphy, Mark
Nichols, Herbie
Oliver, King
Ory, Edward "Kid"
Parker, Charlie
Pastorius, Jaco
Pepper, Art
Peterson, Oscar
Pizzarelli, John
Powell, Bud
Rich, Buddy
Rollins, Sonny
Russell, George
Russell, Pee Wee
Scott, Hazel
Shaw, Artie
Shorter, Wayne
Silver, Horace
Smith, Johnny
Snow, Valaida
Strayhorn, Billy
Sun Ra
Tapscott, Horace
Tatum, Art
Tristano, Lennie
Twardzik, Dick
Waller, Fats
Webster, Ben
Wilber, Bob
Williams, Mary Lou
'''Young, Lester'''
Related works
- Barker, Danny and Alan Shipton. Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville. New York: Cassell, 1998.
- Gitler, Ira. Jazz Masters of the Forties. New York: McMillan Co., 1966.
- Goldberg, Joe. Jazz Masters of the Fifties. New York: McMillan Co., 1965.
- Gourse, Leslie. Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Hadlock, Richard. Jazz Masters of the Twenties. New York: McMillan Co., 1965.
- Lees, Gene. Waiting for Dizzy: Fourteen Jazz Portraits. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000.
- McPartland, Marian. Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All In Good Time. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
- Parker, Chan. My Life in E Flat. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
- Reisner, Robert George. Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker. New York: Da Capo Press, 1962.
- Spellman, A. B. Four Lives in the Bebop Business. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.
- Stewart, Rex William. Jazz Masters of the Thirties. New York: McMillan Co., 1972.
- Taylor, Art. Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews. New York: Perigree, 1982.
- Williams, Martin T. Jazz Masters in Transition: 1957–69. New York: McMillan Co., 1970.
- Williams, Martin T. Jazz Masters of New Orleans. New York: McMillan Co., 1967.