Jazz Book Club

British publishing project

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

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Issue | Author | Title | Year | OCLC

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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

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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

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