Biographies

•  Rabbit's Blues - The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges (Con Chapman)
•  Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
•  Duke Ellington - An American Composer and Icon (Ellington & Brewer)
•  Lush Life - A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (David Hajdu)
•  Sidney Bechet, The Wizard of Jazz (John Chilton)

History and Culture

•  Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (Lawrence Levine)
•  Africa and The Blues (Gerhard Kubik)
•  Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra (Steven Feld)