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You can find biographies of individual jazz musicians by browsing in the ML410-ML420 call numbers in the Music Collection.
Examples of each are below-- there are many more on the shelves!
You can browse books in the MT145-MT146 section, arranged alphabetically by the composer, for analyses of their music. For example: