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A Strange Celestial Road
My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
A Strange Celestial Road
My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah...
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Ain't But a Few of Us
Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain't But a Few of Us
Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have...
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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a...
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Bessie Smith
A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
Bessie Smith
A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland's National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography...
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Black Messiah
Double vinyl LP pressing 2014 release, the long awaited follow up to the critically acclaimed album VOODOO. Nearly 15 years in the making, BLACK MESSIAH...
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Black Radio 2
Double vinyl LP pressing. Deluxe edition includes four bonus tracks. 2013 release, a genre-defying effort that takes the Black Radio blueprint and builds to even...
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Black Radio III
Robert Glasper's highly anticipated third installment to the Black Radio album series. Black Radio III, much like both of it's predecessors, is a cultural moment...
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Blues People
"A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music." -- Langston Hughes "The path the slave took to...
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Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Sold outDilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music...
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Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (Paperback)
Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (Paperback)
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music...
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Everybody Loves the Sunshine
(40th Anniversary)
Sold outEverybody Loves the Sunshine
(40th Anniversary)
Limited yellow vinyl LP pressing. This is the 40th anniversary of Roy Ayers's 1976 album Everybody Love The Sunshine. The title track, 'Everybody Loves the...
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Firespitter
(Pre-Order. Aug 20 2024)
Firespitter
(Pre-Order. Aug 20 2024)
A long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez's poetry. Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez...
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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound
Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83
Sold outFreedom, Rhythm & Sound
Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83
This is a unique collection of cover artwork of revolutionary jazz music between 1965-83. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of...
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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
Madness and Black Radical Creativity
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
Madness and Black Radical Creativity
“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation...
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I Put a Spell on You
The Autobiography of Nina Simone
I Put a Spell on You
The Autobiography of Nina Simone
James Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it. Simone has...
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In the Break
The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
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The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted...
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Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book
Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book
Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
Discover the fascinating history of Black mixology and its enduring influence on American cocktail culture through 70 rediscovered, modernized, or celebrated recipes, by the James...
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Miles
Reissue
Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about...
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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
33 1/3
Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
33 1/3
It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an...
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Milford Graves
A Mind-Body Deal
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A Mind-Body Deal
The first-ever overview on the multimedia art of free-jazz pioneer and creative polymath Milford Graves Milford Graves (born 1941) has been a revelatory force in...
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My Life in the Sunshine
Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family
My Life in the Sunshine
Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family
"Nabil traces the image of his father through song. With growing fascination and heartbreak, he draws out meaning from the shadow of absence, and ultimately...
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New Blue Sun
(180 Gram Vinyl, Poster)
New Blue Sun
(180 Gram Vinyl, Poster)
"New Blue Sun represents a continuation of adventure and discovery for me. Even inherent in the meaning of my name André 3000, there is a...
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Organic Music Societies
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry Don Cherry and Moki Karlsson...
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Race Music
Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop
Race Music
Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop
**SPECIAL ORDER: This title may take an additional 5-7 days to ship (though we try our best to keep a few in stock, so it...
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