Book Excerpts and Reviews
Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson
by W. Royal Stokes 		 by Nancy Ann Lee
 
Jazz Styles: History & Analysis (Sixth Edition)
by Mark C. Gridley
with 2 reader comments, latest October 8, 1998 		 by Spencer Bennett
 
Blues for Bird
by Martin Gray 		 by Paul W. Blair
 
Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949
by Mark Miller
with 3 reader comments, latest January 21, 2006 		 by Stuart Broomer
 
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music
by Stephanie Stein Crease 		 by Donald Clarke
 
Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
edited by Robert Gottlieb
with 1 reader comment, posted December 2, 1997 		 by Stanley Dance
 
Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles
by Steven Isoardi et al.
New Dutch Swing
by Kevin Whitehead
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
by Angela Davis
with 1 reader comment, posted June 16, 2001 		 by Paul de Barros
 
Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary
edited by Leslie Gourse
with 2 reader comments, latest May 27, 2011 		 by Wilma Dobie
 
A Miles Davis Reader
edited by Bill Kirchner
The Miles Davis Companion: Four Decades of Commentary
edited by Gary Carner
with 1 reader comment, posted October 31, 2012 		 by Jerry D'Souza
 
Gramophone Jazz Good CD Guide
Keith Shadwick, editor
with 2 reader comments, latest December 12, 2008 		 by David Franklin
 
All or Nothing At All: A Life of Frank Sinatra
by Donald Clarke 		 by Leslie Gourse
 
Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar
by Sharony Andrews Green
with 2 reader comments, latest September 17, 2000 		 by James Hale
 
Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and Musicians
by Floyd Levin
with 1 reader comment, posted May 28, 2001 		 by Dan Kassell
 
Dan Bied's Jazz Reader
by Dan Bied
with 2 reader comments, latest May 17, 1999 		 by Jerry Kline
 
Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists
by Leslie Gourse
with 2 reader comments, latest November 6, 1998 		 by Nancy Ann Lee
 
Classic Jazz, A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians
with 1 reader comment, posted February 19, 2001 		 by Floyd Levin
 
Suggested Bibliography
with 4 reader comments, latest December 22, 2010 		 by Howard Mandel
 
Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
by Ashley Kahn
The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece
by Eric Nisenson
with 2 reader comments, latest February 12, 2001 		 by Greg Masters
 
Blue Note Records: The Biography
by Richard Cooke 		 by Greg Masters
 
Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron: Their Greatest Studio Performances
from Giant Steps - Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz 		 by Kenny Mathieson
 
"Drum Solo" from Confessions of a Hearing Impaired Jazz Critic  by William Minor
 
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
by John F. Szwed
with 1 reader comment, posted February 11, 1998 		 by John Murph
 
Paradoxes at the Birth -- Two Books  by Ted Panken
 
Give the Drummers Some! The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul
by Jim Payne
with 1 reader comment, posted June 25, 2007 		 by Roberta Penn
 
The Jazz Discography
by Tom Lord 		 by Bob Porter
 
Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years
by William Minor 		 by Doug Ramsey
 
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
by Peter J. Levinson 		 by Terence Ripmaster
 
Myself Among Others: A Life In Music
by George Wein with Nate Chinen 		 by Terence Ripmaster
 
Excerpts from Perry Robinson: The Traveler
with 3 reader comments, latest December 12, 2003 		 by Perry Robinson
 
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
by Gary Giddins
The Playboy Guide to Jazz
by Neil Tesser
The Chronicle of Jazz
by Mervyn Cooke 		 by Don Rose
 
Blue Bossa
by Bart Schneider 		 by Don Rose
 
Blue: The Murder of Jazz
by Eric Nisenson
with 1 reader comment, posted March 5, 1999 		 by Don Rose
 
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
by Peter Pettinger
with 2 reader comments, latest January 18, 1999 		 by Don Rose
 
Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell
by Francis Paudras
with 1 reader comment, posted August 12, 2001 		 by Don Rose
 
Future Jazz
by Howard Mandel
Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie
by Alyn Shipton
with 3 reader comments, latest December 28, 2000 		 by Don Rose
 
Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz
by W. Royal Stokes 		 by Don Rose
 
Our Man in Jazz: George Wien  by Gene Santoro
 
Lester Leaps In: No Eyes: Lester Young
by David Meltzer 		 by Bart Schneider
 
John Coltrane: His Life and Music
by Lewis Porter
with 3 reader comments, latest August 18, 1998 		 by Matthew Snyder
 
The Wildest One: The Life of Wild Bill Davidson
by Hal Willard
with 7 reader comments, latest June 3, 1998 		 by Jack Sohmer
 
Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk
by Leslie Gourse
with 1 reader comment, posted July 24, 1998 		 by Jack Sohmer
 
The History of Jazz
by Ted Gioia
with 1 reader comment, posted March 8, 1999 		 by Jack Sohmer
 
Stir It Up: Musical Mixes from Roots to Jazz
by Gene Santoro
with 1 reader comment, posted March 4, 2003 		 by Sunsh Stein
 
The Future of Jazz
ed. by Yuval Taylor
with 1 reader comment, posted August 30, 2007 		 by Sunsh Stein
 
Living the Jazz Life  by W. Royal Stokes
 
A New History of Jazz
by Alyn Shipton
with 3 reader comments, latest July 30, 2005 		 by W. Royal Stokes
 
The Golden Age of Jazz in Paris and Other Stories about Jazz
Louis' Children: American Jazz Singers
Time Keepers: The Great Jazz Drummers
Fancy Fretwork: The Great Jazz Guitarists
by Leslie Gourse 		 by W. Royal Stokes
 
Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz: 1954-2001
by Whitney Balliett 		 by W. Royal Stokes
 
The Essential Jazz Records, vol. 1, Ragtime to Swing
by Max Harrison, Charles Fox, and Eric Thacker
with 1 reader comment, posted December 20, 2002 		 by W. Royal Stokes
 
Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s
by Sherrie Tucker
with 3 reader comments, latest February 1, 2011 		 by W. Royal Stokes
 
DIS Here: A Bio-Discography of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
by Chris Sheridan 		 by W. Royal Stokes
 
Traditionalists & Revivalists in Jazz
by Chip Deffaa
with 1 reader comment, posted June 30, 1998 		 by W. Royal Stokes
 
The Mainstream Gets Worldly from The Playboy Guide to Jazz  by Neil Tesser
 
Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer
by Philip Furia
with 1 reader comment, posted August 6, 2007 		 by F. Norman Vickers
 
Fats Waller: Cheerful Little Earful
by Alyn Shipton
with 1 reader comment, posted November 3, 2002 		 by Kevin Whitehead
 
Blues and the Poetic Spirit
by Paul Garon
with 1 reader comment, posted February 9, 2008 		 by David Whiteis
 
Blue: The Murder of Jazz
by Eric Nisenson
with 2 reader comments, latest October 7, 1998 		 by Scott Yanow
 
Wynton Marsalis: Skain's Domain
by Leslie Gourse 		 by Scott Yanow