JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Gershwin: His Life and Music</i>)

Tragically the great American composer, George Gershwin, succumbed to a brain tumor at the age of 38. While there are other books on Gerswhin, Schwartz’s biography includes material from the family archives and exclusive interviews. It also delves deeply into his personal life, and the prognosis is not exactly flattering. There is a special section with complete coverage of Gershwin’s compositions and a discography.

Charles Schwartz is the composer of the widely acclaimed “Jazz Symphony,” “Professor Jive” (released on Inner City records, featuring trumper Clark Terry), a professor of music, and an impresario.

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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards. Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.

Some of our books may be found at Amazon for two or three dollars!

The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are listed in this bookstore and may be considered the site bibliography.

The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked, please let us know the title and how it supports the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.

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