I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at Podcast.

Today we're going to give you seven jazz books that we love.

I guess I better learn how to read then.

That's right.

Let's jump right into this.

And I want to start with a book by leroy jones uh who's actually changed his name late later on but i believe his name was still le roy jones le roy l-e-r-o i

cool um called blues people uh this book was recommended to me like in the mid-80s by stanley

crouch when i met him one of my first days in new New York City which was a really cool thing I met him at the village vanguard and he's like oh I heard you play piano come over to my apartment I went around the corner and he played me some records showed me some books you know tried to educate a young dumb pianist from St. Louis that's awesome but he's like yeah you got blues people. So I went and bought it the next day, which this being the mid-80s did not involve ordering it on Amazon and waiting.

It involved going to a bookstore. Yeah, but there were more bookstores around, though. That's right. I went over to Strand books, actually. but it's just a very interesting book about I mean this is not like the kind of book where it's giving you,

it's like the opposite of giving you the diminished scale and how that applies and stuff.

It's kind of esoteric, but it's very, you know, like in terms of the blues influence

on the music of jazz and it's not like a historical thing where it takes you through that.

It's more conceptual, but it really, you know, gives a great framework for the music. I got to go back and read it because I'm actually kind of forgetting it now, but specifics of it, but a lot of it, I remember, I thought about it so much as I was learning music as I was getting older and kind of getting, getting more educated about the music beyond just the technical parts of it, the more conceptual and, you know, sociological aspects of the music. So it just kind of puts that in context for you. Exactly. Nice. I got to check out. I've never read that, but I've heard of it before. That's great. Yeah. So my first pick is Miles. This was Miles' autobiography that was released shortly before he died, I think.

Yeah.

It was written with Quincy Troop. Trope. Troop.

Troop.

It is one of the most fascinating, not just jazz books, but just autobiographies you can read.

Because Miles was such a character.

Yep.

And great storyteller.

Great storyteller.

It's an unbelievable little glimpse into the life of not just Miles, but a lot of the

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