On the book shelves of hepcat1950

Biographies

• Louis Armstrong
  • Louis Armstrong: Mein Leben - mein New Orleans
    Rowohlt © 1962, translated by Hans Georg Brenner
    originally issued as "SATCHMO, My Life in New Orleans" by Prentice-Hall Inc., New York © 1953
  • Max Jones & John Chilton: Die Louis Armstrong Story
    Herder © 1972, translated by Karl Ludwig Nicol
    originally issued as "Louis. The Louis Armstrong Story 1900-1971" by Little, Brown and Company © November Books, Ltd. 1971
  • Gary Giddings: SATCHMO - Louis Armstrong - Sein Leben und seine Zeit
    Belser Verlag © 1991, translated by Rainer Zerbst
    originally issued as "Satchmo" by Doubleday, New York © 1988
    
    
• Chet Baker
  • Chet Baker: Als hätte ich Flügel - Verlorene Erinnerungen
    Hannibal © 1998, translated by Bernd Oehler
    originally issued as "As Though I Had Wings - The Lost Memoir" by St. Martin's Press © 1997
  • Ingo Wulff (editor): Chet Baker in Europe (1975-1988)
    Nieswand Verlag © 1993
    
    
• John Coltrane
  • Gerd Filtgen & Michael Außerbauer: John Coltrane - Sein Leben - Seine Musik - Seine Schallplatten
    Oreos Collection Jazz © ?
  • J.C. Thomas: Chasin' the Trane - Musik und Mystik von John Coltrane
    Hannibal © 1986, translated by Walter Richard Langer
    originally issued by Double Day & Comp. Inc. © 1975
    
    
• Miles Davis
  • Ian Carr: Miles Davis - A Critical Biography
    Quartet Books © 1982
    still my favorite Miles biography
  • Ian Carr: Miles Davis - Eine kritische Biographie
    LIT Verlag © 1985, translated by Volker Kriegel & Werner Schmitz
    immer noch meine liebste Miles Biografie
  • Jack Chambers: Milestones 1: The Music and Times of Miles Davis to 1960
    University of Toronto Press © 1983
  • Jack Chambers: Milestones 2: The Music and Times of Miles Davis since 1960
    University of Toronto Press © 1985
  • Bill Cole: Miles Davis - A Musical Biography
    William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York © 1974
  • Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe: The Autobiography Miles Davis
    Simon & Schuster © 1989
  • Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe: Miles Davis - Die Autobiographie
    Wilhelm Heyne Verlag © 7/2000, translated by Brigitte Jakobeit
  • Gerald Early (editor): Miles Davis and American culture
    Missouri Historical Society Press © 2001
  • Ashley Kahn: Kind Of Blue - The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
    Da Capo Press © 2000
  • Bill Kirchner: A Miles Davis Reader
    Smithsonian Institution Press © 1997
  • Eric Nisenson: Round About Midnight - Ein Portrait von Miles Davis
    Hannibal © 1985, translated by Walter Richard Langer
    originally issued by Double Day & Comp. Inc. © 1982
  • Eric Nisenson: The Making of Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis and His Masterpiece
    St. Martin's Press © 2000
  • John Szwed: So What - The Life of Miles Davis
    Simon & Schuster © 2002
  • Paul Tingen: Miles Beyond - The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991
    Billboard Books © 2001
  • Quincy Troupe: Miles and me
    University of California Press © 2000
  • Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - Sein Leben - Seine Musik - Seine Schallplatten
    Oreos Collection Jazz © 1984
  • Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - Sein Leben - Seine Musik - Seine Schallplatten
    Oreos Collection Jazz © 1988, 2nd extended and revised edition
  • Richard Williams: Miles Davis - Perfectly Cool - Die Bildbiografie
    Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, Germany © 1993
    originally issued as "Miles Davis. The man in the green shirt" by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London, UK © 1993
    
    
• Paul Desmond
  • Doug Ramsey: Take Five - the public and private lives of Paul Desmond
    Foreword by Dave and Iola Brubeck
    Parkside Publications, Inc., Seattle © 2005
    
    
• Duke Ellington
  • James Lincoln Collier: Duke Ellington - Genius des Jazz
    Hannibal © 1989, translated by Hans Richard
    originally issued by Oxford University Press © 1987
  • Mercer Ellington with Stanley Dance: Duke Ellington - Eine Biografie
    Albert Müller Verlag © 1980, translated by Dr. Rudolf Fischer
    originally issued as "Duke Ellington in Person" by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston © 1978
  • Peter Gammond (editor): Duke Ellington - sein Leben - seine Musik
    Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung GmbH, Munich, Germany © 1961, translated by Ima & Gerry Helfer
    originally issued as "DUKE ELLINGTON, HIS LIFE AND MUSIC" by Phoenix House, London
    
    
• Ella Fitzgerald
  • Rainer Nolden: Ella Fitzgerald - Ihr Leben - Ihre Musik - Ihre Schallplatten
    Oreos Collection Jazz © 1986
    
    
• Dizzy Gillespie
  • Dizzy Gillespie mit Al Frazer: TO BE OR NOT TO BOP - Memoiren - Dizzy Gillespie
    Hannibal © 1984, translated by Walter Richard Langer
    originally issued by Double Day & Comp. Inc. © 1979
    
    
• Billie Holiday
  • Donald Clarke: Billie Holiday - Wishing on the Moon - Eine Biografie
    Zweitausendeins © 1994, translated by Barbara Schaden & Ingeborg Schober
    originally issued as "Wishing on the Moon - The Life and Time of Billie Holiday" by Viking © 1994
  • Billie Holiday: Lady sings the blues - Autobiografie
    Edotion Nautilus Verlag © 4th edition 1992, translated by Frank Witzel
    originally issued by Doubleday & Comp., New York
    
    
• Keith Jarrett
  • Uwe Andresen: Keith Jarrett - Sein Leben - Seine Musik - Seine Schallplatten
    Oreos Collection Jazz © 1985
    
    
• Charlie Mariano
  • Lothar Lewien: Charlie Mariano - Tears of Sound - Wanderer zwischen den Musikwelten
    Hannibal © 1993
    
    
• Albert Mangelsdorff
  • Bruno Paulot: Albert Mangelsdorff - Gespräche
    Oreos Collection Jazz © 1993
    
    
• Charles Mingus
  • Charles Mingus: Autobiografie - Beneath the underdog
    Nautilus/Nemo Press © 1986 (2nd edition), translated by Günter Pfeiffer
    originally issued as "Beneath the underdog" by Alfred A. Knopf, New York © 1971
  • Horst Weber & Gerd Filtgen: Charles Mingus - Sein Leben - Seine Musik - Seine Schallplatten
    Oreos Collection Jazz © ?
    
    
• Charlie Parker
  • Robert Reisner: BIRD: The Legend of Charlie Parker
    Oreos Collection Jazz © 1988
  • Ross Russell: BIRD LEBT! Die Geschichte von Charlie "Yardbird" Parker (Mit Diskographie)
    Hannibal © 1985, translated by Walter Richard Langer
    originally issued as "Bird lives" by Quartet Books Ltd. © 1972
  • Peter Niklas Wilson & Ulfert Goeman: Charlie Parker - Sein Leben - Seine Musik - Seine Schallplatten
    Oreos Collection Jazz © 1988
    
    
• Jaco Pastorius
  • Bill Milkowski: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, "The World's Greatest Bass Player"
    Miller Freeman Books © 1995
    
    
• Sonny Rollins
  • Peter Niklas Wilson: Sonny Rollins - Sein Leben - Seine Musik - Seine Schallplatten
    Oreos Collection Jazz © 1991
    
    
• Joe Zawinul
  • Gunther Baumann: Zawinul - Ein Leben aus Jazz
    Residenz Verlag © 2002
    
    

Dictionaries   TOP

• Carlo Bohländer & Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer
  Philipp Reclam Jun. © 1970
• Carlo Bohländer, Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclams Jazzführer
  Philipp Reclam Jun., 3rd revised and extended edition © 1989
• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Rough Guide Jazz
  J.B. Metzler © 1999
• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Rough Guide Jazz
  J.B. Metzler © 2nd edition 2004
  originally issued as "The Rough Guide to Jazz, 3rd Edition" by ROUGH GUIDE © 2004
• John Jörgensen & Erik Wiedemann: Jazzlexikon
  Mosaik Verlag © ?
• Barry Kernfeld (editor): The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz - Volume One - A-K
  Macmillan Press Ltd. © 1988
  still the best printed dictionary available (very expensive)
• Barry Kernfeld (editor): The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz - Volume Two - L-Z
  Macmillan Press Ltd. © 1988
  see Volume One
• Martin Kunzler: Jazz-Lexikon 1 - AABA-Form bis Kyle
  Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag © 1988
• Martin Kunzler: Jazz-Lexikon 2 - La Barbera bis Zwingenberger
  Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag © 1988
• Hans-Jürgen Schaal: Jazz-Standards - Das Lexikon
  Bärenreiter, 3rd revised edition © 2004
  very interesting dictionary on standard compositions in jazz
• Siegfried Schmidt-Joos & Barry Graves: Rock-Lexikon
  Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, revised and extended edition © 1978
• Jürgen Wölfer: Handbuch des Jazz
  Wilhelm Heyne Verlag © 1979

Discographies   TOP

• Gernot W. Elmenhorst & Walter von Bebenburg: Die Jazz-Diskothek
  Rowohlt © 1961
• Jan Lohmann: The sound of Miles Davis - The discography: 1945-1991
  JazzMedia ApS © 1992

Miscellaneous   TOP

• Frank Alkyer: 60 Years of Down Beat
  Hal Leonard © 1995
• Freddy J. Angstmann: JAZZ
  Silva-Verlag, Zurich © 1979
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Das Dritte Ohr - Vom Hören der Welt
  Rowohlt © 1985
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Das neue Jazzbuch
  Fischer Bücherei KG © May 1963
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Das Jazzbuch - Von New Orleans bis Free Jazz
  Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag © February 1968
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Das Jazzbuch - Von Rag bis Rock
  Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag © February 1974
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Das große Jazzbuch - Von New Orleans bis Jazz Rock
  Wolfgang Krüger Verlag © 1981
  still one of the standard books on jazz
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Das Leben - Ein Klang - Wege zwischen Jazz und Nada Brahma
  Droemer Knaur © 1996
• Joachim Ernst Berendt (editor): Die Story des Jazz - Vom New Orleans zum Rock Jazz
  Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag © March 1978
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Ein Fenster aus Jazz - Essays, Portraits, Reflexionen
  Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag © June 1978 (revised and extended edition)
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Nada Brahma - Die Welt ist Klang
  Insel Verlag © 1983 [hc]
• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Nada Brahma - Die Welt ist Klang
  Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag © November 1985
• Philippe Carles & Jean-Louis Comolli: Free Jazz Black Power
  Fischer © 1974, translated by Federica & Hansjörg Pauli
  originally issued by Editions Champ Libre, Paris, France © 1971
• Geoff Dyer: But Beautiful - Ein Buch über Jazz
  Argon © 2001, translated by Matthias Müller
  originally issued as "But Beautiful" by Jonathan Cape © 1991
• Gudrun Endress: JAZZ PODIUM - Musiker über sich selbst
  DVA © 1980
  a collection of Gudrun Endress' interviews for the German magazine Jazz Podium
• John Fordham: Jazz - Geschichte • Instrumente • Musiker • Aufnahmen
  Christian Verlag, Munich, Germany © 1994
  originally issued as "Jazz" by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. © 1993
• Max Gordon: Live at the Village Vanguard (Introduction by Nat Hentoff)
  Da Capo Paperback © 1980
• Günter Graf et al.: Musik aus Mauern - Chronik des Esslinger Jazzkellers
  Günter Graf et al. © 2000
• Nat Hentoff & Albert McCarthy (editors): JAZZ
  Quartet Books Ltd. © 1977
• Jazz Society Stuttgart e.V.: 20 Jahre Dixieland Hall in Stuttgart
  Jazz Society Stuttgart e.V. © 1992
• Ekkehard Jost: Sozialgeschichte des Jazz
  1st edition of the extended edition by Zweitausendeins © 2003
  originally issued as "Sozialgeschichte des Jazz in den USA" by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag © 1982
• Ekkehard Jost et al.: That's Jazz - Der Sound des 20. Jahrhunderts
  Exhibition catalogue
• Burghard König (editor): Jazzrock - Tendenzen einer modernen Musik
  Rowohlt © 1983
• Ring Lardner: Geschichten aus dem Jazz-Zeitalter
  Diogenes © 1963
• Karl Lippegaus: Die Stille im Kopf - Interviews und Notizen über Musik
  Amman © 1987
• David Margolick: Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
  Running Press, Philadelphia, London © 2000
• Eric Nisenson: Blue - The Murder of Jazz
  Da Capo Press © 1997
• Bert Noglik: Jazz-Werkstatt International
  Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag © 1983
• Sally Placksin: Frauen im Jazz - Von der Jahrhundertwende bis zur Gegenwart
  Hannibal © 1989, translated by Lore Boas
  originally issued by Wideview Books/A Division of PEI Books Inc. © ?
• Arrigo Polillo: Jazz - Geschichte und Persönlichkeiten der afro-amerikanischen Musik
  Herbig © 1978, translated by Egino Biagoni
  originally issued by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore © 1975
  a wonderful book, highly recommended for beginners
• Brian Priestley: Jazz On Record - Die Geschichte des Jazz auf Schallplatte
  Hannibal © 1980, translated by Franz Josef Stupp
  originally issued by Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton Ltd. © ?
• René Schickele: Symphony für Jazz [novel]
  dtv © 1963
  originally issued by Kiepenheuer & Witsch © 1925
• Dr. Dietrich Schulz-Koehn: Kleine Geschichte des Jazz
  C. Bertelsmann Verlag © 1963
• Iron Werther: BEBOP - Die Geschichte einer musikalischen Revolution und ihrer Interpreten
  Fischer © 1988
• Zweitausendeins: SOUNDS - Plattenkritiken 1966-77
  Zweitausendeins © 1979
• Mike Zwerin: La tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing unter den Nazis
  Hannibal © 1988, translated by Walter Richard Langer
  originally issued by Quartet Books Ltd. © 1985

Paintings & Photography   TOP

• Joachim Ernst Berendt: Photo-Story des Jazz
  Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, Germany © 1978
• William Claxton: Jazz seen
  Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, Cologne, Germany © 1999
  one of the great photographers in jazz - just beautiful
• Ed van der Elsken: Jazz : [1955 - 1959,61]
  Nieswand © 1992
  originally issued by New Art Seibu/Libro-Port, Tokyo © 1988
• Piet Klaasse: Jam Session - Die Großen des Jazz und Blues live portraitiert
  Athenäum Verlag GmbH, Königstein, Germany © 1984
• Herman Leonard: Jazz Memories
  Editions Filipacchi, France © 1995
  another great photographer in jazz - just beautiful
• Graham Marsh et al.: The Cover Art of Blue Note
  Collins & Brown © 1991
• Rüdiger Schestag: Jazz in Stuttgart
  edition jazz-network.com © 2000

Periodicals   TOP

• Down Beat [USA] (1984-)
• In And Out [Germany, w/ CD] (#1-#6)
• Jazz fm [UK] (some issues)
• Jazz Forum [Poland, English edition] (some issues)
• Jazz Podium [Germany] (1975-)
• Jazziz [USA] (tbd)
• Jazzthetik [Germany] (1987-)
• Jazzthing [Germany] (#0-)
• JazzTimes [USA] (tbd)