Music
E. Taylor Atkins. Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. Duke University Press. 2001. 366pp.
Lars Bjorn; with Jim Gallert. Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60. University of Michigan Press. 2001. 239pp.
Michael J. Budds (editor). Jazz & the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms on the 20th-Century German Music. Pendragon Press. 2002. 213pp.
Frank Driggs; Chuck Haddix. Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop: A History. Oxford University Press. 2006. 320pp.
Raul A. Fernandez. Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination: La Combinación Perfecta. Chronicle Books. 2002. 144pp.
John Gennari. Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. University of Chicago Press. 2006. 480pp.
Ira Gitler. Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s. Oxford University Press. 1985. 331pp.
Jeffrey H. Jackson. Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris. Duke University Press. 2003. 266pp.
William Howland Kenney. Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930. Oxford University Press. 1994. 233pp.
Ross Laird. Tantalizing Tingles: A Discography of Early Ragtime, Jazz, and Novelty Syncopated Piano Recordings, 1889-1934. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1995. 258pp.
Gene Lees. Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White. Oxford University Press. 1994. 246pp.
Robert G. O'Meally (editor). The Jazz Cadence of American Culture. Columbia University Press. 1998. 665pp.
Ben Sidran. Talking Jazz: An Oral History. Da Capo Press. 1995. 508pp. 43 jazz conversations.
Frederick J. Spencer. Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats. University Press of Mississippi. 2002. 311pp.
W. Royal Stokes. The Jazz Scene: An Informal History from New Orleans to 1990. Oxford University Press. 1993. 288pp.
Peter Townsend. Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s. University Press of Mississippi. 2007. 256pp.
Barry Ulanov. History of Jazz in America. Viking Press. 1952. 382pp.
Warren W. Vaché. Jazz Gentry: Aristocrats of the Music World. Scarecrow Press. 1999. 379pp.
Martin T. Williams (editor). The Art of Jazz: Ragtime to Bebop. Da Capo Press. 1981. 253pp.
Scott Yanow. The Trumpet Kings: The Players Who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet. Backbeat Books. 2001. 423pp.
Scott Yanow. Jazz: A Regional Exploration. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2005. 287pp.
Scott Yanow. Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years. Backbeat Books. 2003. 858pp.
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