Some Good Resources for Jazz Books

All Music Guide to Jazz - 4th Edition by Vladimir Bogdanov

The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Cd (Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD) by Richard Cook and Brian Morton

Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins

Friends Along the Way: A Journey Through Jazz by Gene Lees

Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years
by Scott Yanow

Downbeat: The First Sixty Years of Jazz by Frank Alkyer and John McDonough

Jazz on Film: The Complete Story of the Musicians and Music Onscreen by Scott Yanow

The Jazz Discography by Tom Lord

The Oxford Companion to Jazz by Bill Kirchner

Blue Note: Album Cover Art
by Graham Marsh, Glyn Callingham

All That Jazz : The Illustrated Story of Jazz Music
by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns