Allen Lowe: That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History, 1900-1950 (paperback, 1999, Music and Arts Program of America)

A saxophonist of some note, Lowe now has two books of American music history tied to extensive CD sets, or vice versa. His first effort was American Pop: From Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893-1956 (1997, Cadence Jazz Books), which turned into a slightly more limited (cutoff date 1946) 9-CD box set, which interleaves jazz, country, folk, blues, and pop in no special order, the juxtapositions the raw stuff of history. In a gross case of Second System Complex he soon followed that up with a 36-CD history of jazz, again somewhat broadly considered. The book itself came out in 1999, but the CDs (4 boxes of 9 each, each box with a quarter of the book text reset in tiny type) didn't appear until 2007.

Not an easy book to find. I got my copy from Cadence/NMDS. Had to make my own scan of the cover.