Jazz Room

The Jazz Room is located in the Pensacola Library and houses a curated selection of approximately 1,500 books, CDs, and movies about the history, performance, and culture of jazz in its many forms. Other special features of the room include music books with play-along CDs and jazz-related artwork donated by library users. Also available at the Adult Services Desk is a set of Charles B. Anderson’s Master fake books (18 volumes) which includes 8,271 melodies with chord symbols on 5,729 pages.

The completion of the Jazz Room was the final step in the 2011-2013 renovation and expansion of Pensacola Library and is the culmination of a long-standing partnership between the Jazz Pensacola and West Florida Public Libraries. You can read the current and past Pensacola Jazz newsletters (beginning July 2024) at Jazz Pensacola News.

The installation of the Jazz Room was made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Ralph Knowles in memory of his wife, Janet. Special thanks to Dr. Knowles, Dr. Rovena Hillsman and Ms. Cay Simpson for their donations of original art.