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Jazz Audiobooks

If you like Jazz Audiobooks, then you'll love these top picks.
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    Satchmo Blows Up the World

    Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War

    Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Over the Top and Back

    The remarkable autobiography from a national treasure

    by Sir Tom Jones ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Pryce ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Over the Top and Back by Tom Jones, read by Jonathan Pryce.In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom Jones has performed with almost every major recording artist, from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Sinatra, to Robbie Williams, Van Morrison and Jessie J, across every imaginable genre, from rock and pop to country, blues and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Easily Slip into Another World

    A Life in Music

    Unabridged

    12 hours 9 min

    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR*, The New Yorker***Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

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    Playboy Swings

    How Hugh Hefner and Playboy Changed the Face of Music

    by Patty Farmer ...
    Narrated by Denise Shearer ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 5 min

    Playboy—the magazine, the empire, the lifestyle—is one of the world's best-known brands. Since the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953, two elements have been remarkably consistent: the first, obviously, is the celebration of nubile, female flesh. The second, readers may be surprised to learn, is Playboy's involvement in the music scene. The Playboy experience was never just about sex but about ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    No Beethoven

    An Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report

    by Peter Erskine ...
    Narrated by Peter Erskine ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    NO BEETHOVEN chronicles the life and times of drummer Peter Erskine, with the legendary band Weather Report being the nexus to this first-hand account. Erskine was in the midst of the modern American jazz music scene as it underwent its most dynamic change. Peter Erskine is a musician of his times with incredibly rich stories to tell in this autobiography. NO BEETHOVEN includes chapters dedicated ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Rhythm Man

    Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America

    Narrated by James Fouhey ...
    Series series Cultural Biographies

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-39) was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the "Savoy King," who reigned at Harlem's world-famous Savoy Ballroom. Along with the likes of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Cab Calloway, Webb helped create the popular dance and music culture, known as Swing, that swept the United States during and after the Great ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    Brotherhood in Rhythm

    The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 20th Anniversary Edition

    Narrated by Greg Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. Their exuberant style of American theatrical dance-a melding of jazz, tap, acrobatics, black vernacular dance, and witty repartee-was dazzling. Though ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances

    A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz

    by Eddie Piller ...
    Narrated by Eddie Piller ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 1 min

    ***'Eddie was there very early doors. His story is of the many.' Paul Weller'A total riot! Takes me right back to the 70s. A Superb book' Mani, The Stone Roses'What a wonderful book. Mod isn't about what decade you lived in, it's about your attitude, and this book has tons of it' Kenney Jones**, The Small Faces****'**A charismatic storyteller, witty and unpretentious... ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    They Dream In Gold

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    Two dreamers, united by a soundBonnie and Mansour are meant to be: two children abandoned by their mothers from opposite sides of the Black Atlantic, who find each other in New York in 1968 and set about making music that will change the world.Mansour’s sound is unique: a fusion of Senegalese prayer songs, and the wild beats of East Coast American jazz. His voice soars and lifts, carrying away the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Jelly Roll Blues

    Censored Songs and Hidden Histories

    by Elijah Wald ...
    Narrated by Mela Lee ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz.In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz, guided by the legendary New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Morton became nationally famous as a ... Read more

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    On Jazz

    A Personal Journey

    by Alyn Shipton ...
    Narrated by Alyn Shipton ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 16 min

    Few musical genres inspire the passionate devotion of jazz. Its mystique goes far beyond the melodies and rhythms, with its key players and singers discussed by aficionados with a respect that borders on reverence. Some books on jazz offer little more than theory or dry facts, thereby relinquishing the ‘essence’ of the music. This book is different. One of the most influential and internationally ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

    Narrated by Herbie Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 33 min

    The warmly welcomed memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our timeIn Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on an extraordinary life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator who has spent a lifetime exploring a range of musical genres, and enriching each of them, Hancock has had an enormous influence ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music

    by Barry Mazor ...
    Narrated by Barry Mazor, Dom Flemons, Ketch Secor ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 4 min

    This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous—even revolutionary—A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it, changing the breadth and flavor of popular music around the world. It is the story of the life and fifty-year career, from the age of cylinder recordings to the stereo era, of the man who pioneered the recording, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Sportin' Life

    John W. Bubbles, An American Classic

    by Brian Harker ...
    Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    John W. Bubbles was the ultimate song-and-dance man. A groundbreaking tap dancer, he provided inspiration to Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and the Nicholas Brothers. His vaudeville team Buck and Bubbles captivated theater audiences for more than thirty years. Most memorably, in the role of Sportin' Life he stole the show in the original production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, in the process ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD