Jazz Book Club

The Jazz Book Club (JBC) was a publishing project of Sidgwick & Jackson, a London-based publisher. Herbert Jones, the editor, and a distinguished panel, selected the works. Sixty-six issues, and various extras were published from 1956 to 1967.[1]

Publications

Issue Author Title Year OCLC
1 Alan Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 1956
2 Wilder Hobson American Jazz Music 1956
3 Eddie Condon We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz 1956
4 Humphrey Lyttelton I Play as I Please 1956
5 Dorothy Baker Young Man with a Horn 1957
6 Walter C. Allen, Brian Rust King Joe Oliver 1957
7 Louis Armstrong Satchmo 1957
8 Iain Lang Jazz in Perspective 1957
9 William Broonzy Big Bill Blues 1957
10 Sinclair Traill Play that Music 1958
11 Ethel Waters, Charles Samuels His Eye is on the Sparrow 1958
12 André Hodeir Hommes et problèmes du jazz 1958
13 Frederic Ramsey, Charles Edward Smith Jazzmen 1958
14 Raymond Horricks Count Basie and his Orchestra 1958
15 Sinclair Traill Concerning Jazz 1959
16 Milton Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe Really the blues 1959
17 Winthrop Sargeant Jazz, Hot and Hybrid 1959
18 Hugues Panassié Monsieur Jazz 1959
19 David Boulton Jazz in Britain 1959
20 Peter Gammond (ed) Duke Ellington: His Life and Music 1959
21 Humphrey Lyttelton Second Chorus 1960
22 Charles Wareing, George Barlick Bugles for Beiderbecke 1960
23 Barry Ulanov A Handbook of Jazz 1960
24 Roland Gant A World in a Jug 1960
25 Rudi Blesh, Harriet Janis They All Played Ragtime 1960
26 Francis Newton The Jazz Scene 1960
27 Raymond Horricks These Jazzmen of Our Time 1960
28 William C. Handy Father of the Blues 1961
29 John Clellon Holmes The Horn 1961
30 Ralph Gleason Jam Session: An Anthology of Jazz 1961
31 Leonard Feather The Book of Jazz: A Guide to the Entire Field 1961
32 Rex Harris Enjoying Jazz 1961
33 Samuel Charters The Country Blues 1961
34 Whitney Balliett The Sound of Surprise: 46 Pieces on Jazz 1961
35 Martin Williams The Art of Jazz: Essays on the Nature and Development of Jazz 1962
36 Sidney Bechet Treat it Gentle 1962
37 Jay Smith, Lenn Guttridge Jack Teagarden. The story of a jazz maverick 1962
38 Stanley Dance Jazz Era: The Forties 1962 221975291
39 Henry Pleasants Death of a Music? The Decline of the European Tradition and the Rise of Jazz 1963
40 Paul Oliver Blues Fell This Morning 1963
41 Burnett James Essays on Jazz 1963
42 Jay Allison Stuart Call Him George 1963
43 Dom Cerulli, Burt J. Korall, Nasatir Mort The Jazz Word 1963
44 Harry Otis Brunn The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1963
45 Charles Delaunay Django Reinhardt 1963
46 John Alfred Williams Night Song 1964
47 Benny Green The Reluctant Art: Five Studies in the Growth of Jazz 1964
48 Sidney Finkelstein Jazz: A People’s Music 1964
49 Neil Leonard Jazz and the White Americans; The Acceptance of a New Art Form 1964
50 Herbert A. Simmons Man Walking on Eggshells 1964
51 Wingy Manone Trumpet on the wing 1964
52 Martin Williams Jazz Panorama 1965
53 Robert George Reisner Bird. The Legend of Charlie Parker 1965
54 André Hodeir Toward Jazz 1965
55 Joachim-Ernst Berendt Das neue Jazzbuch 1965
56 Whitney Balliett Dinosaurs in the Morning: 41 Pieces on Jazz 1965
57 Max Kaminsky My Life in Jazz 1965
58 Ralph de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz 1966
59 LeRoi Jones Blues People: Negro Music in White America 1966
60 Willie the Lion Smith Music on my Mind 1966
61 Studs Terkel Giants of Jazz 1966
62 Harold Courlander Negro Folk Music USA 1966
63 Hugues Panassié The Real Jazz 1967
64 Paul Oliver Conversation with the Blues 1967
65 Peter Clayton, Peter Gammond 14 Miles on a Clear Night 1967
66 W.T. Ed. Kirkeby The Story of Fats Waller 1967

Extra volumes

Author Title Year OCLC
Albert McCarthy, Nat Hentoff Jazz
Ken Williamson This is Jazz
Ross Russell The Sound
Peter Leslie The Book of Bilk
Sigmund Spaeth A History of Popular Music in America
Peter Gammond (ed) The Decca Book of Jazz
Esquire’s World of Jazz
Dennis Stock, Nat Hentoff Jazz Street
Gerald Lascelles, Sinclair Traill (ed) Just Jazz vol IV
Leonard Feather The Encyclopedia of Jazz
Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues 1960 156745483

References

  1. ↑ Peter Clayton & Peter Gammond, Jazz: A–Z, Guinness Superlatives (1986) OCLC 15353474; ISBN 0851122817