The Jazz Book Club, 1956-67

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71 volumes, complete (1956-67), some wear and minor tears on some dust jackets, otherwise good condition
throughout.

Founded in 1956 Published by Sidgwick & Jackson
Edited by Herbert Jones (in brackets is date of original publication)

1956
1 Alan Lomax: Mister Jelly Roll (1950)
2 Wilder Hobson: American Jazz Music (1939)
3 Eddie Condon & Thomas Sugrue: We Called it Music (1947)
4 Humphrey Lyttelton: I Play as I Please (1954)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1967
63 Hugues Panassie: The Real Jazz (1942)
64 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)
* These two volumes unnumbered but decorated like the others above

And the following (date of publication)
Eddie Condons': Treasury of Jazz (1958)
Edited by Peter Gammal: Decca Book of Jazz (1960)
Edited by Eric Williamson: This is Jazz (1961)
Edited by Nat Hentoff and Albert l McCarthy: Jazz (1962)
Peter Leslie: the Book of Bilk (1963)

All published by Jazz Book Club.
Collection is 71 volumes.