- Jazz, essential listening, Scott DeVeaux, University of Virginia, Gary Giddins
- Jazz, Ronald D. Lankford, Jr
- Blue, the murder of jazz, Eric Nisenson
- African American jazz and rap, social and philosophical examinations of Black expressive behavior, edited by James L. Conyers, Jr. ; introduction by James B. Stewart
- Jazz heritage, Martin Williams
- Jazz covers, Joaquim Paulo ; ed. Julius Wiedemann
- Blues people, Negro music in white America, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
- Down beat, 60 years of jazz, edited by Frank Alkyer ; with an introduction by John McDonough ; research and copy editors, John McDonough [and others]
- The imperfect art, reflections on jazz and modern culture, Ted Gioia
- The Oxford companion to jazz, edited by Bill Kirchner
- The jazz scene, an informal history from New Orleans to 1990, W. Royal Stokes
- Swing that music, by Louis Armstrong ; with an introduction by Rudy Vallee and a new foreword by Dan Morgenstern ; music section edited by Horace Gerlach ; with special examples of swing music contributed by Benny Goodman ... [et al.]
- Jazz, a regional exploration, Scott Yanow
- Masters of jazz saxophone, the story of the players and their music
- I, Wabenzi, a souvenir, Rafi Zabor
- The Duke Ellington reader, edited by Mark Tucker
- The history of jazz, Ted Gioia
- The history of jazz
- Jazz for dummies, by Dirk Sutro ; foreword by Barney Kessel
- Louis Armstrong, in his own words, selected writings, Louis Armstrong ; edited and with an introduction and appendix by Thomas Brothers ; annotated index by Charles Kinzer
- Jazz, the first century, edited by John Edward Hasse ; forewords by Quincy Jones and Tony Bennett ; with contributions by Larry Appelbaum ... [et.al.]
- Landing on the wrong note, jazz, dissonance, and critical practice, Ajay Heble
- Jazz people, photographs by Ole Brask ; text by Dan Morgenstern ; foreword by Dizzy Gillespie ; introduction by James Jones
- The jazz cataclysm, Barry McRae
- The world of swing, Stanley Dance
- Cats of any color, jazz black and white, Gene Lees
- The ancestry of jazz, a musical family history, Daniel Hardie
- Dreams are made for children, classic jazz lullabies, song selection by Misja Fitzgerald Michel ; illustrations, Ilya Green ; translation, David Lytle and Hel?ne Roulston (Services d'?dition Guy Connolly)
- New musical figurations, Anthony Braxton's cultural critique, Ronald M. Radano
- Jazz, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
- Jazz, the great American art, by Gene Seymour
- Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy, Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots, Rick Kennedy ; foreword by Ted Gioia
- The freedom principle, jazz after 1958, John Litweiler
- All in good time, Marian McPartland
- Jazz changes, Martin Williams
- The chitlin' circuit, and the road to rock 'n' roll, Preston Lauterbach
- El jazz en el agridulce blues de la vida, Wynton Marsalis y Carl Vigeland ; [traducción de Elisabet Cabeza]
- Marian McPartland's jazz world, All in good time, Marian McPartland ; foreword by James T. Maher
- From jazz to swing, African-American jazz musicians and their music, 1890-1935, Thomas J. Hennessey
- Beyond A love supreme, John Coltrane and the legacy of an album, Tony Whyton
- The chitlin' circuit, and the road to rock 'n' roll, Preston Lauterbach
- Madame Jazz, contemporary women instrumentalists, Leslie Gourse
- A pure solar world, Sun Ra and the birth of Afrofuturism, Paul Youngquist
- Innovators of American jazz, Stanley I. Mour
- Swingin' the dream, big band jazz and the rebirth of American culture, Lewis A. Erenberg
- Black music, essays by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
- The amazing Bud Powell, Black genius, jazz history, and the challenge of bebop, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr
- Piano jazz, Isabelle Leymarie
- Jazz masters of the twenties, by Richard Hadlock
- Listen to the stories, Nat Hentoff on jazz and country music, Nat Hentoff