Here's a list of books that I own or can whole-heartedly recommend to anyone wanting to learn more about hot-dance and vintage music. It's far from exhaustive; I'll be adding to it as I find new titles.

I do not own a copy of Rust and Laird's Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934, Rust and Brooks' The Columbia Master Book Discography series, Rust and Forbes' British Dance Bands On Record or Evans' Bix: The Leon Bix Beiderbecke Story - I wish I did! If you have a copy of any of these that you'd like to see go to a good, loving home, please contact me!


The Brian Rust Books

Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897-1942 6th Edition
Brian Rust
ISBN: 0967181925
Mainspring Press

The American Dance Band Discography 1917-1942
Rust, Brian A. L.
ISBN: 870002481
Arlington House

The American Record Label Book
Brian A. L Rust
ISBN: 087000414X
Arlington House

British Dance Bands on Record 1911 to 1945 (And Supplement)
Brian Rust, Sandy Forbes
General Gramophone Publications Ltd.

The Victor Master Book, Volume 2 (1925-1936)
Rust, Brian, A. L.
W. C. Allen

Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934
Ross Laird; Brian Rust
ISBN: 313311420
Praeger Publishers

The Complete Entertainment Discography
Brian Rust with Allen G. Debus
ISBN: 870001507
Arlington House

The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume I: U.S. Matrix Series 1 through 4999, 1901-1910 with a History of the Columbia Phonograph Company to 1934
Tim Brooks
ISBN: 313308217
Greenwood Press

The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume II: Principal U.S. Matrix Series, 1910-1924
Brian Rust
ISBN: 313308225
Greenwood Press

The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume III: Principal U.S. Matrix Series, 1924-1934
Brian Rust
ISBN: 313308233
Greenwood Press

The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume IV: U.S. Twelve-Inch Matrix Series, 1906-1931
Brian Rust; Tim Brooks
ISBN: 0313308241
Greenwood Press


Everything Else


The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiographies of Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael; John E. Hasse; Stephen Longstreet
ISBN: 306808994
Da Capo Press

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz
Rick Kennedy
ISBN: 253331366
Indiana University Press

Goin' to Kansas City
Nathan W. Pearson
ISBN: 252013360
University of Illinois Press

Hendersonia: The Music of Fletcher Henderson and His Musicians
Walter C. Allen

Black Beauty, White Heat : A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950
Frank Driggs; Harris Lewine
ISBN: 030680672X
Da Capo Press

We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz
Eddie Condon; Thomas Sugrue; Gary Giddins
ISBN: 306804662
Da Capo Press

Lost Chords: White Musicians And Their Contribution To Jazz, 1915-1945
Richard M. Sudhalter
ISBN: 195055853
Oxford University Press, USA

Remembering Bix: A Memoir of the Jazz Age
Ralph Berton
Harper & Row

Selections From The Gutter: Jazz Portraits From "The Jazz Record"
Hodes, Art
ISBN: 520029992
University of California Press

The Fabulous Phonograph, 1877-1977
Roland Gelatt
ISBN: 20326807
Macmillan Publishing Company

American Premium Record Guide 1900-1965
L. R. Docks
ISBN: 087349282X
Krause Publications

Jazz : A History Of The New York Scene
Charters, Samuel Barclay.
ISBN: 030676055X
Da Capo Press

Swing Out! Great Negro Dance Bands
Gene Ferrett
ISBN: B000JD5X14
Da Capo Press

Tram : The Frank Trumbauer Story
Evans, Philip R.
ISBN: 810828510
Scarecrow Press

Eddie Condon's Scrapbook of Jazz
Eddie Condon and Hank O'Neal
St. Martin's

Bix: The Leon Bix Beiderbecke Story
Philip R. Evans; Linda K. Evans
ISBN: 0966544803
Jazz Productions