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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| A-G · H-O · P-Z | |
| H-O | |
| David Hajdu | |
 | Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture Da Capo Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780306818332 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997 ISBN: 0865475121 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Devra Hall | |
 | And John Levy Men, Women and Girl Singers: My Life as a Musician Turned Talent Manager  Beckham Publications Group, 2000 ISBN: 0931761743 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Karla Harby | |
 | And Jimi Durso, Editors Jazz Improvisation: Advice from the Masters  Outcat Records, 2004 (available at www.outcatrecords.com) ISBN: 0975963201 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Hasse, John Edwin | |
 | and Tad Lathrop Discover Jazz  Prentice Hall, 2011 ISBN: 9780205003518 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted June 25, 2012 |
| Max Harrison, Charles Fox and Eric Thacker | |
 | The Essential Jazz Records, vol. 1, Ragtime to Swing Continuum, 2000 ISBN: 0720117089 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Harrison, Thacker and Stuart Nicholson | |
 | The Essential Jazz Records, Vol. 2: Modernism To Postmodernism Continuum, 2000 ISBN: 0720117224 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| John Hasse | |
 | Editor Jazz: The First Century essays by Bob Blumenthal, Neil Tesser, John Litweiler, Kevin Whitehead, Krin Gabbard, Larry Appelbaum  William Morrow, 2000 ISBN: 0688170749 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 |
 | Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington Da Capo Press, 1995 ISBN: 0306806142 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Mike Heffley | |
 | Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz Yale University Press, 2005 ISBN: 0300106939 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 7, 2012 |
| Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro | |
 | Editors Hear Me Talkin' To Ya  Dover, 1990 ISBN: 0486217264 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 |
 | Jazz Makers: Essays on the Greats of Jazz Da Capo Press, 1979 ISBN: 0306801051 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Nat Hentoff | |
 | At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene University of California Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0520261136 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted November 15, 2012 |
 | American Music Is Da Capo Press, 2004 ISBN: 0306813513 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | 2nd edition Boston Boy: Growing Up With Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions  Dry, Paul Books, 2001 ISBN: 096796752X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted November 16, 2012 |
 | And Ahmet Ertegun and Greil Marcus What'd I Say: The Atlantic Story: 50 Years of Music  Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001 ISBN: 1566490480 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 |
| With Bob Parent, Photographer Jazz Is  DIANE Publishing, 1992 (Third Edition) ISBN: 0756750458 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 | |
 | Listen To The Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music Harper Collins, 2000 ISBN: 0306809826 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Jazz: New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by Twelve of the World's Foremost Jazz Critics and Scholars Da Capo Press, 1983 ISBN: 0306800020 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Paperback edition Jazz Life  Da Capo Press, 1978 ISBN: 0306800888 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Tad Hershorn | |
 | Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice University of California Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0520267824 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted November 25, 2012 |
| Monika Herzig | |
 | David Baker: A Legacy in Music University of Indiana Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0253356574 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted April 1, 2012 |
| Randi Hultin | |
 | Born Under the Sign Of Jazz Sanctuary Music Library, 1998 ISBN: 1860742521 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Cicily Janus | |
 | The New Face of Jazz: An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow Billboard Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0823000654 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 2, 2013 |
| Todd Jenkins | |
 | I Know What I Know: The Music of Charles Mingus Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 ISBN: 0275981029 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 10, 2013 |
 | Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004 ISBN: 0313298815 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted May 31, 2013 |
| Sanford Josephson | |
 | Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the Generations Praeger Publishers, 2009 ISBN: 978-0313357008 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Ashley Kahn | |
 | The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records W.W. Norton, 2006 ISBN: 0393058794 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 |
 | Paperback edition Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album  Penguin Group, 2003 ISBN: 0142003522 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece Da Capo, 2000 ISBN: 0306809869 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Fred Kaplan | |
 | 1959: The Year Everything Changed Wiley, 2009 ISBN: 978-0470387818 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Robin D.G. Kelley | |
 | Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original The Free Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0684831909 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Bill Kirchner | |
 | Editor The Oxford Companion to Jazz  Oxford University Press, featuring some two dozen JJA members among its 60 essayists, 2000 ISBN: 019512510X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted April 1, 2012 |
| Bruce H. Klauber | |
 | Introduction by Mel Tormé World of Gene Krupa: That Legendary Drummin' Man  Pathfinder Publishing, 1991 ISBN: 093479328X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted March 19, 2013 |
| Walter Kolosky | |
 | Girls Don't Like Real Jazz: A Jazz Patriot Speaks Out Abstract Logix Books, 2004 (available at www.abstractlogix.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17933) ISBN: 0976101602 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| John Kruth | |
 | Bright Moments: The Life & Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk Welcome Rain Publishers, 2000 ISBN: 1566492181 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 26, 2012 |
| Art Lange | |
 | Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose Coffee House Press, 1993 ISBN: 1566890012 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Skoot Larson | |
 | The No News Is Bad News Blues Authorhouse, 2007 ISBN: 1425988024 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Floyd Levin | |
 | Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and Musicians University of California Press, 2000 ISBN: 0520213602 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Peter Levinson | |
 | Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way - A Biography Da Capo Press, 2005 ISBN: 0306811111 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001 ISBN: 0823076725 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James Oxford University Press, 1999 ISBN: 019514239X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted June 25, 2012 |
| Jean Pierre Lion | |
 | Translated by Gabriella Page-Fort Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005 ISBN: 0826416993 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| John Litweiler | |
 | Mojo Snake Minuet Goodbait Books, 2009 ISBN: 978-1598589757 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life Da Capo Press, September 1994 ISBN: 0306805804 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 Da Capo, 1990 ISBN: 0306803771 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Graham Lock | |
 | Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington and Anthony Braxton Duke University Press, 1999 ISBN: 0822324407 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 |
| Jacques Lowe with Bob Blumenthal and Cliff Preiss | |
 | Jazz: Photographs of the Masters Artisan, 1995 ISBN: 1885183259 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 |
| Gerald Majer | |
 | The Velvet Lounge: Essays on Late Chicago Jazz Columbia University Press, 2005 ISBN: 023113682X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Howard Mandel | |
 | Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz Routledge, 2007 ISBN: 0415967147 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Editor. Contributors include James Hale, Todd Jenkins, John McDonough, Bill Milkowski, and Bob Porter. The Illustrated Enclyclopedia of Jazz and Blues  Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005 ISBN: 0823082660 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Future Jazz Oxford University Press, 2000 ISBN: 0195141210 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Kenny Mathieson | |
 | Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz, 1954-65 Canongate Books, 2002 ISBN: 1841952397 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 Payback Press, 2000 ISBN: 0862418593 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted February 22, 2001 -> Excerpt |
| Wilfrid Mellers | |
| Music In A New Found Land Oxford University Press, 1965 | |
| Michelle Mercer | |
 | Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne
Shorter Tarcher/Penguin, 2004 ISBN: 1-58542-353-X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Bill Milkowski | |
 | Legends of Jazz Preface by Joe Lovano  White Star Publishers, 2011 ISBN: 978-8854406049 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | 2nd edition, includes CD Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius  Backbeat Books, 2005 ISBN: 0-87930-859-1 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Swing It! An Annotated History of Jive Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001 ISBN: 0823076717 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 |
 | Rockers, Jazzbos & Visionaries Billboard, 1998 ISBN: 0823078337 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius Backbeat Books, 1996 ISBN: 0-87930-426-X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted March 19, 2013 |
| Mark Miller | |
 | Way Down That Lonesome Road: Lonnie Johnson in Toronto, 1965-1970 The Mercury Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-1551281483 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist's Life The Mercury Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1551281469 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 |
 | High Hat, Trumpet, and Rhythm: The Life and Music of Valaida Snow The Mercury Press, 2007 ISBN: 1551281279 -> Please share your reader review |
 | A Certain Respect for Tradition: Mark Miller on Jazz The Mercury Press, 2006 ISBN: 1551281252 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Some Hustling This! - Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929 The Mercury Press, 2005 ISBN: 1551281198 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada and Canadians in Jazz The Mercury Press, 2001 ISBN: 1551280930 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada,
1914-1949 The Mercury Press, 1998 ISBN: 1551280469 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Cool Blues: Charlie Parker in Canada 1953 Harbour Pub Co, 1990 ISBN: 0889711194 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 |
 | Jazz in Canada: Fourteen Lives Nightwood Editions, 1988 ISBN: 088971116X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Boogie, Pete and the Senator: Canadian Musicians in Jazz: The Eighties Nightwood Editions, 1987 ISBN: 0889711127 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted June 23, 2012 |
| William Minor | |
 | Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within University of Michigan Press, 2004 ISBN: 0472113453 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 |
 | With Bill Wishner, Photographer Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years  Angel City Press, 1997 ISBN: 1883318408 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 7, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Unzipped Souls: A Jazz Journey through the Soviet Union Temple University Press, 1995 ISBN: 1566393248 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Bill Moody | |
 | Shades of Blue Poisoned Pen Press, 2008 ISBN: 1590584856 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Reprint edition The Sound of the Trumpet  OffByOne Press, 2005 ISBN: 0976876809 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Paperback edition Solo Hand  OffByOne Press, 2003 ISBN: 0964413833 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 7, 2012 |
 | Looking for Chet Baker: An Evan Horne Mystery Walker and Company, 2002 ISBN: 0802733689 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Bird Lives! Worldwide Library, 2000 ISBN: 0373263503 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | The Sound of the Trumpet Walker & Company, 1996 ISBN: 0802732917 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Death of a Tenor Man Walker & Company, 1995 ISBN: 0802732690 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Designed by Richard Hendel, Foreword by Stanley Dance Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad  University of Nevada Press, 1993 ISBN: 087417244 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 8, 2012 | |
| Thomas L. Morgan | |
 | Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz Turner Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-1596525450 -> Please share your reader review |
| Dan Morgenstern | |
 | And Herb Snitzer Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir  University Press of Mississippi, 2011 ISBN: 978-1604738445 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 24, 2012 |
 | Foreword for Barney Josephson & Terri-Trilling Josephson Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People  University of Illinois Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780252034138 -> Please share your reader review |
 | And George Bassett, Henry Martin, Evan Spring Annual Review of Jazz Studies: 2003, Vol. 13  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007 ISBN: 0810859459 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Edited by Sheldon Meyer Living With Jazz: A Reader  Pantheon, 2004 ISBN: 037542072X -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| And Edward Brooks Young Louis Armstrong on Records  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002 ISBN: 081040731 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 | |
 | With Charles Graham and Photographers Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Hinton, and
Art Kane A Great Jazz Day  Woodford Publishing, 1999 ISBN: 0942627350 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted October 7, 2012 |
 | And Ole Brask Jazz People  Da Capo Press, 1993 (Paperback edition) ISBN: 0306805278 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | And Gene Fernett Swing Out: Great Negro Dance Bands  Da Capo Press, 1993 (Paperback edition) ISBN: 0306805014 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted January 25, 2012 |
 | And Edward Berger, Henry Martin, David Cayer, Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies 11: 2000-2001, Vol. 11  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002 ISBN: 081845350 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| And Edward Berger, Henry Martin, David Cayer, Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies 10: 1999, Vol. 10  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002 ISBN: 081840561 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 | |
 | And Edward Berger, David Cayer, Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies 2  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 ISBN: 0810822962 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | And Edward Berger, Henry Martin, Lewis Porter, David Cayer,
Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies 8: 1996  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997 ISBN: 0810831996 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | And Edward Berger, Henry Martin, Lewis Porter, David Cayer, Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies 7: 1994-1997  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996 ISBN: 0010831228 -> Please share your reader review |
 | And Edward Berger, Henry Martin, Lewis Porter, David Cayer, Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies 6: 1993  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1993 ISBN: 0810827271 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | And Edward Berger, Lewis Porter, David Cayer, Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies, 1991, Vol. 5  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1991 ISBN: 0810824787 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | And Edward Berger, Lewis Porter, David Cayer, Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies, 1988, Vol. 4  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1988 ISBN: 0810822989 -> Please share your reader review |
 | Editor Annual Review of Jazz Studies 3  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1986 ISBN: 0810822970 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted December 13, 2012 |
 | And Charles Nanry and David Cayer, Editors Annual Review of Jazz Studies 1  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1982 ISBN: 0878558969 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Stuart Nicholson | |
 | Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address) Taylor & Francis, 2005 ISBN: 0415975832 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
 | Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biography Taylor & Francis, 2004 ISBN: 0415971195 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
 | Paperback reprint Billie Holiday  Northeastern University Press, 1997 ISBN: 1555533035 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Eric Nisenson | |
 | Open Sky: Sonny Rollins And His World Of Improvisation St. Martin's Press, 2001 ISBN: 0306809885 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted June 25, 2012 |
 | The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece St. Martin's Press, 2000 ISBN: 0312266170 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review |
 | Blue: The Murder of Jazz Da Capo Press, 2000 ISBN: 0306809257 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 -> JazzHouse.org review -> JazzHouse.org review |
| Tom Nolan | |
 | Three Chords for Beauty’s Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw W. W. Norton, 2010 ISBN: 978-0393062014 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 5, 2012 |
| Robert O'Meally | |
 | Editor The Jazz Cadence of American Culture  Columbia University Press, 1998 ISBN: 0231104499 -> Reader reviews - 1, posted September 6, 2012 |
| Dan Ouellette | |
 | Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes ArtistShare, 2009 ISBN: 978-0615265261 -> Please share your reader review |
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