Suggested Bibliography for the Jazz Journalists Association
a partial list of our members' and colleagues' works, and other important books on jazzA work in progress. If you're a member and we've missed your book, please send an e-mail to hman@jazzhouse.org and include author, title, publisher, date and ISBN.
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| Frank Alkyer | |
 | Editor Downbeat: 60 Years of Jazz  Hal Leonard Corporation, 1994 ISBN: 0793534917 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted February 14, 2012 |
| Whitney Balliett | |
 | New York Voices: Fourteen Portraits University of Mississippi, 2006 ISBN: 1578068363 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 |
Dinosaurs in the Morning: 41 Pieces on Jazz Textbook Publishers, 2003 ISBN: 0758198566 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted November 25, 2012 | |
 | Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz: 1954-2001 St. Martin's Press, 2002 ISBN: 0312270089 -> Please share your reader review -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz University Press of Mississippi, 1996 ISBN: 1578068347 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
Ecstacy at the Onion: 30 Pieces on Jazz Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995 ISBN: 031322577X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 | |
Goodbyes and Other Messages: A Journal of Jazz 1981-1990 Oxford University Press, 1991 ISBN: 019503757X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 | |
Barney, Bradley and Max: Sixteen Portraits in Jazz Oxford University Press, 1989 ISBN: 0195061241 -> Please share your reader review | |
New York Notes: A Journal of Jazz in the Seventies Da Capo Press, 1988 ISBN: 0306800373 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 31, 2013 | |
 | Revised edition American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song  University Press of Mississippi, 1988 ISBN: 1578068355 -> Please share your reader review |
Jelly Roll, Jabbo and Fats: 19 Portraits in Jazz Oxford University Press, 1984 ISBN: 0195034252 -> Please share your reader review | |
Alec Wilder and His Friends Da Capo Press, 1983 ISBN: 030676153X -> Please share your reader review | |
Night Creature: A Journal of Jazz, 1975-1980 Oxford University Press, 1981 ISBN: 0195029089 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 | |
Duke Ellington Remembered Gold Stein Press, 1981 ISBN: 0938237004 -> Please share your reader review | |
Sound of Surprise Da Capo Press, 1978 ISBN: 0306775433 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 | |
Improvising: 16 Jazz Musicians and Their Art Oxford University Press, 1977 ISBN: 0195021495 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 | |
| Joshua Berrett | |
 | Louis Armstring and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz Yale University Press, 2004 ISBN: 0300103840 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted June 24, 2012 |
| Marshall Bowden | |
 | Mike Rooth, illustrator Quotable Jazz  Sound And Vision, September 2002 ISBN: 0920151558 -> Please share your reader review |
| Bob Blumenthal | |
 | Jazz: An Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's
Music Collins, 2007 ISBN: 0061241792 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 |
| Stuart Broomer | |
 | Time and Anthony Braxton Mercury Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1551281445 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Thomas Brothers | |
 | Editor Louis Armstrong in His Own Words  Oxford University Press, 1999 ISBN: 0195119584 -> Please share your reader review |
| Nick Catalano | |
 | Clifford Brown: The Life And Art Of The Legendary Jazz Trumpeter Oxford University Press, 2000 ISBN: 0195144007 -> Please share your reader review |
| Nate Chinen | |
 | And George Wein Myself Among Others: A Life In Music  Da Capo Press, May 2003 ISBN: 0306811146 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Donald Clarke | |
 | Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon Da Capo Press, June 2002 ISBN: 0306811367 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald | |
 | Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce Berkeley Hills Books, 2001 ISBN: 1893163253 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Richard Cooke | |
 | Blue Note Records: The Biography Justin, Charles & Co., May 2003 ISBN: 1932112103 -> Please share your reader review -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Stephanie Stein Crease | |
 | Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music A Cappella Books, October 2001 ISBN: 1556524250 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Bill Crow | |
 | Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN: 0195187954 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life Oxford University Press, 1993 ISBN: 0195085507 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Jazz Anecdotes Oxford University Press, 1991 ISBN: 0195071336 -> Please share your reader review |
| Francis Davis | |
 | Paperback edition Jazz and Its Discontents  Perseus, 2004 ISBN: 0306810557 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted February 1, 2013 |
 | Second paperback edition The History of the Blues  Da Capo Press, 2004 ISBN: 0306812967 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Paperback reprint Like Young  Da Capo Press, 2002 ISBN: 0306811863 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted February 1, 2013 |
 | Paperback edition Bebop And Nothingness: Jazz And Pop At The End Of The Century  Schirmer Books, 2000 ISBN: 0825671620 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | In The Moment: Jazz In The 1980s Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 1996 ISBN: 0306807084 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Outcats: Jazz Composers, Instrumentalists, and Singers Oxford University Press, 1990 ISBN: 019505587X -> Please share your reader review |
| Paul de Barros | |
 | And Eduardo Calderon Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle  Sasquatch Books, 1993 ISBN: 0912365927 -> Please share your reader review |
| Chip Deffaa | |
 | Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues University of Illinois Press, 1996 ISBN: 0252022033 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 |
 | With photographers Nancy M. Elliott, John Johnsen, Andreas Johnsen Jazz Veterans: A Portrait Gallery  Cypress House, 1996 ISBN: 1879384280 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted December 13, 2012 |
 | Traditionalists and Revivalists in Jazz Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1993 ISBN: 0810827042 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Paperback reprint Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen  University of Illinois Press, 1992 ISBN: 0250652582 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Studies in Jazz Series In the Mainstream: 18 Portraits in Jazz  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1992 ISBN: 0810825589 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Debra DeSalvo | |
 | The Language of the Blues Watson-Guptill Publications, 2006 ISBN: 0823083896 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Scott DeVeaux | |
 | The Birth of BeBop: A Social and Musical History University of California Press, 1999 ISBN: 0520216652 -> Please share your reader review -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix | |
 | Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN: 0195047672 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 |
| Rob DuBoff | |
 | The Best Songs from Jazz of the '60s and Beyond: For Piano, Guitar, Electronic Keyboard and All C Instruments (Jazz Bible Fake Book Series) Hal Leonard Corporation, 2004 ISBN: 0793558093 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Transcribed score, co-edited with Mark Davis, Mark Vinci, Josh Davis Miles Davis: Kind of Blue  Hal Leonard Corporation, 2000 ISBN: 0634011693 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Compiler The Swing Era - Jazz Bible Fake Books Series  Hal Leonard Corporation, 1996 ISBN: 0793556589 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Michael Erlewine, Chris Woodstra, Vladimir Bogdanov, Scott Yanow | |
 | Editors All Music Guide To Jazz  Miller Freeman Books, 1998 ISBN: 087930717X -> Please share your reader review |
| David Evanier | |
 | All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett John Wiley and Sons, 2011 ISBN: 978-0470520659 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted June 25, 2012 |
| Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler | |
 | Editors The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz  Oxford University Press, 1999 ISBN: 0195074181 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Encyclopedia of Jazz in the '70s Da Capo Press, 1987 ISBN: 0306802902 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Sascha Feinstein | |
 | And David Rife, Editors The Jazz Fiction Anthology  Indiana University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0253221377 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature Indiana University Press, 2007 ISBN: 0253218764 -> Please share your reader review |
| Will Friedwald | |
 | A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers Pantheon Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0375421495 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Krin Gabbard | |
 | Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture Faber and Faber, 2008 ISBN: 978-0571211999 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture Rutgers University Press, 2004 ISBN: 978-0813533834 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema University of Chicago Press, 1996 ISBN: 978-0226277899 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Jazz Among the Discourses Duke University Press, 1995 ISBN: 978-0822315810 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Paul Garon | |
 | Blues and the Poetic Spirit City Lights Books, 1996 ISBN: 0872863158 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Gary Giddins | |
 | And Scott DeVeaux Jazz  W.W. Norton, 2009 ISBN: 9780393068610 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Foreword for Pannonica de Koenigswarter Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats  Harry N. Abrams, 2008 ISBN: 9780810972353 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN: 0195156072 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Visions of Jazz Oxford University Press, 2000 ISBN: 0195132416 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903-1940 Little, Brown & Company, 2002 (Paperback edition ISBN: 0316886459 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 |
 | Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong Da Capo Press, 2000 (Paperback edition) ISBN: 0306810131 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation Da Capo Press, 2000 (Paperback edition) ISBN: 0306809877 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Riding on a Blue Note Da Capo Press, 1999 (Paperback edition) ISBN: 0306809249 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker Da Capo Press, 1999 (Paperback edition) ISBN: 0306808927 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Faces in the Crowd: Musicians, Writers, Actors and Filmmakers Perseus Publishing, 1996 ISBN: 030680705X -> Please share your reader review |
| With Carol Friedman, Photographer Moment's Notice: Photographs of American Jazz Musicians  Macmillan Library Reference, 1983 ISBN: 0028720407 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 26, 2012 | |
| Ira Gitler | |
 | The Masters of Bebop: A Listener's Guide Da Capo Press, UPDATED & EXPANDED, January 2001 ISBN: 0306810093 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Celebrating the Duke: and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy and Other Heroes Da Capo Press, 1995 ISBN: 0206806452 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
Jazz Masters of the Forties Da Capo Press, 1990 ISBN: 0306802244 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 | |
 | Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s Oxford University Press, May 1987 ISBN: 0195050703 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Ted Gioia | |
 | The Birth (and Death) of the Cool Speck Press, 2009 ISBN: 9781933108315 -> Please share your reader review |
 | The History of Jazz Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN: 019512653X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Paperback reprint West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California: 1945-1960  University of California Press, 1998 ISBN: 0520217292 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Paperback reprint The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture  Oxford University Press, 1990 ISBN: 0195063287 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Robert Gottlieb | |
 | Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now Vintage, 1999 ISBN: 0679781110 -> Please share your reader review -> JazzHouse.org review |
| William P. Gottlieb | |
 | The Golden Age of Jazz Pomegranate, 1995 ISBN: 0876543557 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 26, 2012 |
| Leslie Gourse | |
 | Fancy Fretwork: The Great Jazz Guitarists Scholastic Library Publishing, March 2000 ISBN: 0531164047 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | The Golden Age of Jazz in Paris and Other Stories about Jazz Xlibris, 2000 ISBN: 0738825921 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Unforgettable: The Life and Mystique of Nat King Cole Cooper Square Press, 2000 ISBN: 0815410824 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted June 26, 2012 |
 | Louis' Children: American Jazz Singers Cooper Square Press, 2001 ISBN: 0815411146 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted December 13, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists Oxford University Press, 1996 ISBN: 0195106474 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk Music Sales Corporation, 1998 ISBN: 0028650328 -> Please share your reader review -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Time Keepers: The Great Jazz Drummers Franklin Watts/Grolier Publishing, March 2000 ISBN: 0531164055 -> Please share your reader review -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Wynton Marsalis, Trumpet Genius Franklin Watts, 1999 ISBN: 0531164071 -> Please share your reader review -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Martin Gray | |
 | Blues for Bird Santa Monica Press, October 2001 ISBN: 1891661205 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Sharony Andrews Green | |
 | Grant Green: The Forgotten Genius Of The Jazz Guitar Miller Freeman, 1998 ISBN: 087930698X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Mark Gridley | |
 | 5th edition Concise Guide to Jazz  Prentice Hall, 2006 ISBN: 0131733311 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | 9th edition Jazz Styles: History and Analysis  Prentice Hall, 2005 ISBN: 0131931156 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | 4th edition Concise Guide to Jazz  Pearson Education, 2004 ISBN: 0131425196 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 24, 2012 |
 | Jazz Styles: History and Analysis Prentice Hall, 1999 ISBN: 013021227X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted December 28, 2000 -> JazzHouse.org review |
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