Michael Molasky, who teaches at University of Minnesota and has published on Okinawa literature (this and this), has recently released a book in Japanese on the history of jazz in postwar Japan. (I could not find an English version at Amazon so perhaps it is not appearing in English.)
The book title is 戦後日本のジャズ文化―映画・文学・アングラ, which translates as Jazz Culture in Postwar Japan: Film, Literature, and the Underground. The last phrase, angura, refers to the underground art scene that flourished in the 1960s.
According to the bio on Amazon taken from the book, the author is also a jazz pianist and plays regularly in Tokyo.
(via 作品メモランダム)
Hello, thank you for referencing my weblog (作品メモランダム). Molasky wrote the book in Japanese, so maybe, there is not a English version.