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Jazz Book Club

10-13 Bedford Street, London WC2 (1963)
Founded in 1956. Published by Sidgwick & Jackson
Edited by Herbert Jones
[In brackets is date of original publication]
1956
Alan Lomax : Mister Jelly Roll
(1950)
Wilder Hobson : American Jazz Music
(1939)
Eddie Condon & Thomas Sugrue : We Called it Music
(1947)
Humphrey Lyttelton : I Play as I Please
(1954)

1957
Dorothy Baker : Young Man with a Horn
(1935)
Brian Rust & Walter C Allen : King Joe Oliver
(1955)
Louis Armstrong : Satchmo
(1953)
Iain Lang : Jazz in Perspective
(1947)
William Broonzy & Yannick Bruynoghe : Big Bill Blues
(1955)

1958
(Ed) Sinclair Traill & Gerald Lascelles : Play That Music (1957)
Ethel Waters : His Eye on the Sparrow
(1951)
Andre Hodeir : Jazz - Its Evolution and Essence
(1954)
(Ed) Frederic Ramsey & Charles Edward Smith : Jazzmen (1939)
Raymond Horricks : Count Basie
(1957)

1959
(Ed) Sinclair Traill & Gerald Lascelles : Concerning Jazz (1957)
Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe : Really the Blues
(1946)
Winthrop Sargeant : Jazz Hot and Hybrid
(1946)
Hugues Panassie & Madeleine Gautier : Dictionary of Jazz
(1956)
David Boulton : Jazz in Britain
(1958)
(Ed) Peter Gammond : Duke Ellington - His Life & Music (1958)

1960
Humphrey Lyttelton : Second Chorus
(1959)
Charles H Wareing & George Garlick : Bugles for Beiderbecke
(1958)
Barry Ulanov : A Handbook of Jazz
(1957)
Roland Gant : A World in a Jug
Harriet Janis & Rudi Blesh : They All Played Ragtime
(1950)
Francis Newton : The Jazz Scene
(1959)
(Ed) Raymond Horricks : These Jazzmen of Our Time (1959)

1961
W C Handy : Father of the Blues
(1941)
John Clellon Holmes : The Horn
(1958)
(Ed) Ralph Gleason : Jam Session (1958)
Leonard Feather : The Book of Jazz
(1957)
Rex Harris : Enjoying Jazz
(1960)
Samuel Charters : The Country Blues
(1959)
Bailiet : The Sound of Surprise
(1959)

1962
(Ed) Martin Williams : The Art of Jazz (1959)
Sidney Bechet : Treat it Gentle
(1960)
Jay D Smith & Len Guttridge : Jack Teagarden
(1960)
(Ed) Stanley Dance : the Jazz Era - The Forties (1961)

1963
Henry Pleasants : Death of a Music
(1961)
Paul Oliver : Blues Fell this Morning
(1960)
Burnett James : Essays on Jazz
(1961)
Jay Allison Stuart : Call Him George
(1961)
(Ed) Dom Cerulli : The Jazz Word (1960)
Harry Otis Brunn : Original Dixieland Jazz Band
(1960)
Charles Delauney : Django Reinhardt
(1954)

1964
John Williams : Night Song
(1961)
Benny Green : The Reluctant Art
(1962)
Sidney Finkelstein : Jazz - A people's Music
(1948)
Neil Leonard : Jazz and the White Americans
(1962)
Herbert A Simmons : Man Walking on Eggshells
(1962)
Wingy Manone & Paul Vandervoort II : Trumpet on the Wing
(1948)

1965
(Ed) Martin Williams : Jazz Panorama (1962)
Robert George Reisner : Bird - The Legend of Charlie Parker
(1962)
Andre Hodeir : Toward Jazz
(1962)
JOachim Berendt : The New Jazz Book
(1959)
Whitney Balliett : Dinosaurs in the Morning
(1962)
Max Kaminsky : My Life in Jazz
(1963)

1966
(Ed) Ralph de Toledano : Frontiers of Jazz (1947)
Le Roi Jones : Blues People
(1963)
Willie "The Lion' Smith & George Hoefer : Music on My Mind
(1964)
Studs Terkel : Giants of Jazz
(1957)
Harold Courlander : Negro Folk Music
(1963)

1967
Hugues Panassie : The Real Jazz
(1942)
Paul Oliver : Conversation with the Blues
(1965)
Peter Gammond & Peter Clayton : 14 Miles on a Clear Night
(1966)
W T Ed Kirkeby : Ain't Misbehavin' - The Story of Fats Waller
(1966)

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