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So What: The Life of Miles Davis
So What
So What

By John F. Szwed

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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday

By John F. Szwed

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"Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, ... jazz writer John Szwed considers how [Holiday's] life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rh...

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So what
So what

By John F. Szwed

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Based on interviews with family and friends, this account of the jazz great's life reveals the influence of Miles Davis' life on his work as well as the musician's persistent desire to re-invent hi...

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Crossovers
Crossovers

By John F. Szwed

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Crossovers
Crossovers

By John F. Szwed

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Billie Holiday

By John Szwed

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The Man Who Recorded the World: A Biography of Alan Lomax
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By John F. Szwed

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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax

By John F. Szwed

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The definitive biography of Alan Lomax-from John Szwed,"the best music biographer in the business" (L.A. Weekly). One of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century, Alan Lomax was best...

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