Jazz, Blues and World

The best books related to jazz, blues and world music

Biographies, label histories, essays and illustrated books on jazz, blues and world music.

Jazz may be the best-documented music of the twentieth century: meticulous discographies, interviews, analysis, musicians' memoirs. Blues and world music have a more scattered literature, often harder to find — and all the more worth having.

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  • Circuit - Musiques Contemporaines - Écologies Sonores Vol. 36 No 2 (2026)

  • Hergé musicien?

  • Envoutante Lhasa

  • Atmospherics

  • Avec Piazzolla

  • Ambient Media Japanese Atmospheres of Self

  • Really the Blues

  • Extended Play Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein

  • Strobus / Banksiana

  • Soul. R&B. Funk. Photographs 1972–1982

  • World Jazz Un Voyage en 100 Disques

  • Les Fantômes du Forum

  • Une Prière pour John Coltrane

  • Music Sets you Free

  • Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

  • Musique Concrète

  • The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

  • Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part I

  • WAIL: The Visual Language of Prestige Records

  • Bird The Legend of Charlie Parker

  • Coltrane Chasin' the Trane

  • The View from Within Jazz Writings 1948-1987

  • Miles Davis A Musical Biography

  • The Freedom Principle Jazz After 1958