📚 Jazz

The American art form: New Orleans, swing, bebop and improvisation, told through the players and records that invented it as they went.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject jazz in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Henry Mancini	Henry Mancini	2011	41
	Jazz Styles	Mark C. Gridley	1978	37
	Blues people	Amiri Baraka	1963	28
	His Eye Is on the Sparrow	Ethel Waters	1951	22
	Lady sings the blues	Billie Holiday	1956	21
	A pictorial history of jazz	Orrin Keepnews	1955	17
	Really the blues	Mezz Mezzrow	1946	15
	The Jazz Discography	Tom Lord	1992	15
	Concise Guide to Jazz	Mark C. Gridley	1992	13
	The story of jazz	Marshall Winslow Stearns	1956	11
	Charlie Parker Played Be Bop	Christopher Raschka	1992	11
	Mister Jelly Roll	Alan Lomax	1950	10
	Giants of jazz ; sketches by Robert Galster	Studs Terkel	1957	10
	The jazz scene	Eric Hobsbawm	1959	10
	Sounds and scores	Henry Mancini	1962	10
	The big bands	George Thomas Simon	1967	10
	Jazz	Henry Martin	2001	10
	A handbook of jazz	Barry Ulanov	1957	9
	Jazz	Nat Hentoff	1959	9
	Jazz Is	Nat Hentoff	1976	9
	Stomping the blues	Albert Murray	1976	9
	As serious as your life	Valerie Wilmer	1977	9
	Kind of Blue	Ashley Kahn	2000	9
	Jazz Theory	Dariusz Terefenko	2014	9
	Jazz improvisation	John Mehegan	1959	8
	The world of Duke Ellington	Stanley Dance	1970	8
	The Penguin guide to jazz on CD, LP, and cassette	Richard Cook	1992	8
	The history of jazz	Ted Gioia	1997	8
	Jazz and Blues	Hal Leonard Corp.	1999	8
	Jazz	Gary Giddins	2009	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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