Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba.
Smithsonian Books, 2003. First edition, first printing.
Modern
Jazz Modernism : from Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First edition, first printing.
Callas: The Art and Life: The Great Years.
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974. 1st Edition.
Bix : The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend, Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1903-1931)
Continuum, 2005. First English edition, first printing.
Fire and Rain : The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970.
Da Capo, 2011. Later printing.
Never a Pal Like Mother : Vintage Songs & Photographs of the One Who's Always True.
Dust-to-Digital, 2011. First edition, first printing. CD included.
Bourbon Street Black: The New Orleans Black Jazzman.
Oxford, 1973. First edition, first printing.
Broken Horses: A Memoir.
Crown, 2021. First edition, first printing.
Stranger than Kindness.
Canongate, 2020. First edition, first printing. Baby blue paper-covered boards, onlaid photo, no dust jacket.
Going Into the City Portrait of a Critic As a Young Man.
William Morrow, 2015. First edition, first printing.
Wishing on the Moon : The Life and Times of Billie Holiday.
Viking, 1994. First edition, first printing.
No Walls and the Recurring Dream : A Memoir.
Viking, 2019. First edition, first printing.
Black Beauty, White Heat : A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950.
William Morrow, 1982. First edition, first printing.
Liverpool: Wondrous Place Music From Cavern to Cream
Virgin Books Ltd, 2002. First edition, first printing.
Lyrics 1962-1985
Knopf, 2000. Second edition.
Chronicles: Volume One.
Simon & Schuster, 2004. Later printing.
The Lyrics: 1961-2012.
Simon & Schuster, 2016. Second printing.
Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin.
Henry Holt, 1999.
Ain't No Grave : The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely.
Dust-to-Digital, 2010. First edition, first printing. CD included.
Visions of Jazz : The First Century.
Oxford, 1998. Second printing.
Weather Bird : Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century.
Oxford, 2004. First edition, first printing.
Groovin' High : The Life of Dizzy Gillespie.
Oxford, 1999. Later printing.
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'N' Roll.
Little, Brown & Co., 2015. First edition, first printing.
Woody Guthrie : American Radical.
U. of Illinois, 2011. Second printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Faina and Richard Farina.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. First edition, first printing.