21 Of Best Jazz Musician Biographies Books In 2024

TOP 1

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Jones, Rickie Lee
Grove Press
Apr 6, 2021

Our Score

4.9
TOP 2

The History of Bones: A Memoir

Lurie, John
Aug 17, 2021

Our Score

4.85
TOP 3

Cat Butts In Space : A Coloring Book

Brains, Val
Valbrains
Feb 5, 2019

Our Score

4.75
TOP 4

The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

Alexander, Stephon
Basic Books
Dec 5, 2017

Our Score

4.7
TOP 5

Miles

Davis, Miles
Simon & Schuster
Sep 20, 2011

Our Score

4.7
TOP 6

Here and Now!: The Autobiography of Pat Martino

Pat Martino
Bill Milkowski
Backbeat
Oct 25, 2011

Our Score

4.65
TOP 7

Times Remembered: The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio

La Barbera, Joe
Levin, Charles
Miller, Hal
Oct 20, 2021

Our Score

4.65
TOP 8

The Screaming Goat Coloring Book

Press, Screaming Goat
Brains, Val
Dec 31, 2020

Our Score

4.55
TOP 9

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Kelley, Robin
Free Press
Nov 2, 2010

Our Score

4.55
TOP 10

Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla

Charnas, Dan
Feb 1, 2022

Our Score

4.5
TOP 11

Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition

Holiday, Billie
Dufty, William
Ritz, David
Crown
Jul 25, 2006

Our Score

4.4
TOP 12

Cat Butt Hanukkah: A Coloring Book

Brains, Val
Jul 22, 2018

Our Score

4.4
TOP 13

I Put A Spell On You

Simone, Nina
Da Capo Press
Sep 4, 2003

Our Score

4.4
TOP 14

Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews

DeVito, Chris
Chicago Review Press
Apr 1, 2012

Our Score

4.35
TOP 15

Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper

Pepper, Art
Pepper, Laurie
Da Capo Press
Mar 22, 1994

Our Score

4.35
TOP 16

A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

Kahn, Ashley
Jones, Elvin
Penguin Books
Oct 28, 2003

Our Score

4.25
TOP 17

John Coltrane: His Life and Music

Porter, Lewis
University of Michigan Press
Jan 11, 2000

Our Score

4.25
TOP 18

Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus

Mingus, Charles
Vintage
Sep 3, 1991

Our Score

4.2
TOP 19

Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny

Brewer, Carolyn Glenn
Jun 14, 2021

Our Score

4.1
TOP 20

Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews

Taylor, Arthur
Da Capo Press
Aug 22, 1993

Our Score

4.05
TOP 21

Eberhard Weber: A German Jazz Story

Weber
Eberhard
Kirk
Heidi
Oct 3, 2021

Our Score

4