On The Bookcase

Welcome to our Women In Jazz Media bookcase platforming female authors from across the world. All the books included on this page are also on our physical bookcase and we are very happy to share them here too. Do also listen to our On The Bookcase podcast series where we interview some of the authors on our bookcase. Guests have so far include Jordannah Elizabeth, Maria Golia, Dr Tammy Kernodle, Judith Tick and Monika Herzig. If you are a female author, we would love to hear from you!

  • Heaven’s Choir ~ Part 1 by Paulette C. Jackson
  • Women and the Piano A History in 50 Lives by Susan Tomes
  • From Blues to Beyoncé A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics by Alexis McGee
  • Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World by Leah Broad
  • Swingin' The Blues - Eddie Durham & The Ladies of Jazz: Swingin The Blues Eddie Durham and The Ladies of Jazz by Topsy Durham
  •  Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick
  • Tasty Jazz Jams for Our Times: Vol. 3 by Debbie Burke
  • I Wish You Love: A Memoir by Karen Chilton
  • Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music by Stephanie Stein Crease
  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom New and Selected Essays by Farah Jasmine Griffin
  • The Story of the Saxophone by Lesa Cline-Ransome
  • Queering Kansas City Jazz Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
  • Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams  by Linda Dahl
  • I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft by LaShonda Barnett
  • Rhythm Man Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America by Stephanie Stein Crease
  • The Whirl: Men, Music & Misadventures by Jane Cornwell
  • How To Build Relationships in the Music Industry: A Guide for Musicians by Arlette Hovinga
  • Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment  by Paula J. Bishop (Editor), Kendra Preston Leonard (Editor)
  • Dobro jutro, džezerke by Jasna Jovićević
  •  Going Back to T-Town The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band by  Carmen Fields
  • Marian McPartland's Jazz World by Marian McPartland by Marian McPartland
  • Sassy: the Life of Sarah Vaughan  by Leslie Gourse
  • The Rhythm of Unity: A Jazz Musician’s Lifelong Journey Beyond Black and White by Dorothy Longo
  • The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers
  • Leading behind the kit: Composer drummers in contemporary jazz by Cecilia Sanchietti
  • The Drum Is a Wild Woman by Patricia G. Lespinasse
  • Ain't But a Few of Us by Willard Jenkins
  • NEW STANDARDS: 101 LEAD SHEETS BY WOMEN COMPOSERS by Terri Lyne Carrington
  • Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis
  • Talking Swing: The British Big Bands by Sheila Tracy
  • Call him George: A Biography of George Lewis, The Man, His Faith and His Music by Ann Fairbairn
  • Jazz and Gender by Monika Herzig
  • Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985 by Carolyn Glenn Brewer
  • Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s by Sherrie Tucker
  • Improvising the Score Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz by Gretchen L. Carlson
  • HAZEL SCOTT The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC by Karen Chilton
  • The Music in Me by Paulette Jackson
  • The Music Through the Storm by Paulette Jackson
  • John Tchicai: A chaos with some kind of order by Margriet Naber
  • Queen of Blues by Jennifer Warner
  • Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II by Farah Jasmine Griffin
  • If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday by Farah Jasmine Griffin
  • Jazz People by Val Wilmer
  • Jazz Singing A Guide to Pedagogy and Performance by Tish Oney
  • Peggy Lee: A Century of Song by Tish Oney
  • Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender by Sheila Whiteley
  • At Last: A Novel Based on the Life of Harry Warren by Stacia Raymond
  • High Times, Hard Times by Anita O'Day
  • Constructing a Nervous System: A MEMOIR by Margo Jefferson
  • This Woman's Work: Essays On Music by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleason
  • Tonight At Noon: A Love Story by Sue Mingus
  • Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
  • Journey to a Destination Unknown by Barbara Thompson
  • The Queen Next Door Aretha Franklin, An Intimate Portrait by Linda Solomon
  • Women in Jazz Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization by Marie Buscatto
  • Komeda A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebałkowska
  • AMY WINEHOUSE by Kate Solomon
  • Women in Audio by Leslie Gaston-Bird
  • With Billie by Julia Blackburn
  • David Baker – Legacy in Music by Monika Herzig
  • Central Avenue Sounds Jazz in Los Angeles by Clora Bryant,Buddy Collette,William Green, Jack Kelson, Horace Tapscott, Gerald Wilson, and Marl Young.
  • Voices of Powerful Women: 40 Inspirational Interviews by Zoe Sallis
  • ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman by Laurie Pepper
  • Women Photographers by Val Wilmer
  • Will You Take Me As I Am Joni Mitchell's Blue Period by Michelle Mercer
  • Fictional Blues Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White by Kimberly Mack
  • Freedom Music Wales, Emancipation and Jazz 1850-1950 by Jen Wilson
  • Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown
  •  Women in Jazz: Music Publishing and Marketing by Dr. Joan Cartwright
  • Sassy: the Life of Sarah Vaughan by Leslie Gourse
  • Billie Holiday: The Graphic Novel by Ebony Gilbert
  • When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras by Claudrena N. Harold
  • Wellness, Wellplayed The Power of a Playlist! by  Jennifer Buchanan
  • Poderosas: Conversations With Extraordinary, Ordinary Women by Lisette Garcia
  • Double Helix by Ed & Diane Reed
  • Nina A STORY OF NINA SIMONE by Traci N. Todd
  • Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists by Leslie Gourse
  •  Amazing Musicwomen by Joan Cartwright
  • When and Where I Enter The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings
  • Last Chance Texaco by Rickie Lee Jones
  • Mama Said There'd be Days Like This. My Life in the Jazz World. by Val Wilmer
  • Harlem Of The West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era by Elizabeth Silva
  • As Serious as Your Life: Story of the New Jazz by Val Wilmer
  • Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • Stormy Weather: The Music And Lives Of A Century Of Jazzwomen by Linda Dahl
  • Some Liked It Hot Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959 by Kristin A. McGee
  • Musical Echoes South African Women Thinking in Jazz by Carol Ann Muller
  • Soundscapes of Liberation African American Music in Postwar France by Celeste Day Moore
  • Sax Appeal: Ivy Benson and Her All-Girl Band by Janet Tennant
  • Footprints The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter by Michelle Mercer
  • She’s at the Controls Sound Engineering, Production and Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century by Helen Reddington
  • MARY LOU WILLIAMS: MUSIC FOR THE SOUL by Deanna Witkowski
  • Sound Advice by RHIAN JONES and LUCY HEYMAN
  • Liner Notes for the Revolution The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A. Brooks
  • Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan by Ellen Johnson
  • The Lady Swings Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer by Dottie Dodgion
  • Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon
  • Experiencing  Chick Corea by Monika Herzig
  • Soul on Soul - The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams by Tammy L. Kernodle
  • She Raised Her Voice! 50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way Into Music History by Jordannah Elizabeth
  • Ornette Coleman - The Territory and the Adventure by Maria Golia

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