Analysis of Jazz by 
Jazz scores & analysis by 
Form and Process in Music, 1300-2014 by 
Something borrowed, something blue: principles of jazz composition by
A broad survey of the wider principles of harmony, form, adaptation, and developmental technique underlying jazz composition in its various instrumental formats.
History and Tradition of Jazz by
History and Tradition of Jazz is not just a story of jazz music and musicians, but the struggle to achieve, create, and invent for the sake of this musical art form.
Why Jazz? by
Organized chronologically in a convenient question and answer format, this terrific resource makes jazz accessible to a broad audience, and especially to readers who've found the music bewildering or best left to the experts.
Analyzing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach by
This book demonstrates that the theories of Heinrich Schenker can illuminate not only the technical aspects of jazz (such as melody, rhythm, and harmony), but also its artistic content. In considering objections that have been raised to the application of Schenker s approach to improvised jazz, the book touches upon the content and origin of Schenker s theories, the role of analysis and the intentional fallacy, the origin and function of dissonance in common-practice harmony and in jazz, the nature of improvisation vs. composition, and the role of simplicity and complexity in popular and art music.
World's Largest Jazz Archives at Rutgers
How do you analyze jazz music?
Many scholars investigate the meaning of jazz by analyzing the music itself: instrumentation, melody, harmony, rhythm, and structure in jazz reveal vital cultural information related to the creative process.They also might examine jazz in relation to race and society, and considering political climate.
Applying Schenkerian Theory to Mainstream Jazz: A Justification for an Orthodox Approach
by David J. Heyer
This paper examines several recent modified Schenkerian analyses in order to compare the strengths and weaknesses of a modified approach with those of an orthodox approach to analyzing jazz. Applying an orthodox Schenkerian approach reveals transformations on structural levels that may go otherwise unnoticed, and these transformations often illuminate important relationships between jazz and common-practice music.