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]
| 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 | ||
| 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 |