Valerie Wilmer's 1970 classic, Jazz People, has long been considered one of the three or four finest books ever written on jazz. Featuring extensive interviews with fourteen jazz geniuses, including Art Farmer, Cecil Taylor, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Big Joe Turner, and Archie Shepp, Wilmer captures the essential qualities of each artist in her interviews, providing deeply moving portraits--in words and in photographs--of the often troubling lives of the musicians who changed the shape of jazz in the fifties and sixties.

Jazz People

Biographies & Memoirs

Wilmer, Valerie

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

As Serious As Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz

As serious as your life: The story of the new jazz

Arts & Photography

Music

Quartet Books

Bobbs-Merrill

Jazz people

Allison and Busby

Surveys the innovative musicians of recent American jazz, the role of women in music, and jazz's future

Lawrence Hill Books

Traces the history of American jazz through its greatest musicians, providing detailed bibliographical material on John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman and many others. The author also explores the culture of jazz, shaped by tradition and economic and social forces.

Lawrence Hill & Co.

Reissue of a jazz classic with photos by the author who is a well known photographer.

As Serious As Your Life: John Coltrane and Beyond (Five Star)

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