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Bebop: The Music and Its PlayersOwens, Thomas

Bebop: The Music and Its Players


Owens, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Upper spine cocked. Slight blemish and foxing to upper and side of text block. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230939


Price: $19.00 

Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington Hasse, John Edward

Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington


Hasse, John Edward

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1st, September 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages, b&w photographs. Light pen marking to three pages. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454839


Price: $12.00 

 

Bibliography of Jazz, A


Merriam, Alan P./Robert J. Benford

Hardcover. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 145 pages. Part of the publications of The American Folklore Society - Bibliographical Series - Volume IV. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606726


Price: $25.00 

 

Billie Holiday: The Musician & the Myth


Szwed, John

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famous Jazz singer. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951484


Price: $19.00 

Birth of Bebop, The: A Social and Musical HistoryDeVeaux, Scott

Birth of Bebop, The: A Social and Musical History


DeVeaux, Scott

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 572 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Upper spine cocked, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230938


Price: $19.00 

 

Black Cat Bone


Lewis, J. Patrick, Illust. by: Gary Kelley

hardcover. North Mankato, Minn., Creative Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color screen printed illustrations throughout by Gary Kelley. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469111


Price: $44.00 

 

Blows Like a Horn


Whaley, Preston

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, June 2004, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. B&w photographs. Slight smokey odor. Small damp stains on cover. Light wear to dust jacket.

Record # 454950


Price: $18.00 

 

Blues Album Cover Art, The


Marsh (Editor), Graham/Barrie Lewis

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd printing, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Softcover. Full color examples of great blues album covers from the 1950's to 1970's. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614194


Price: $25.00 

 

Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz


Dupuis, Robert

Hardcover. US, Louisiana State University Press, 2nd printing, 1993-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages, b&w photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on dedication page to the son of Eddie Jenkins. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 465716


Price: $50.00 

Carmen McRae: Miss JazzGourse, Leslie

Carmen McRae: Miss Jazz


Gourse, Leslie

Hardcover. New York, 1st edition, July 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451793


Price: $15.00 

Castles Made of Sound: The Story of Gil EvansHicock, Larry

Castles Made of Sound: The Story of Gil Evans


Hicock, Larry

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very slight normal wear to edges of jacket. Remainder mark to bottom of text block. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230885


Price: $15.00 

Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65Mathieson, Kenny

Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65


Mathieson, Kenny

Softcover. Edinburgh, UK, Canongate, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages. Softcover. Very light scuffing to covers, dented point to top of text block near spine. Old price stick on back cover. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230888


Price: $15.00 

 

Dangerous Curves - The Art of the Guitar


Kuronen, Darcy

Hardcover. Boston, MFA Publications, 1st Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Softcover published to accompany the exhibition Dangerous Curves - Art of the Guitar, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from November 5, 2000 to February 25, 2000. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750362


Price: $25.00 

Duke Ellington Reader, TheTucker, Mark (ed.)

Duke Ellington Reader, The


Tucker, Mark (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 536 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Mild fading to top and edges of jacket, slight normal wear.

Record # 2230887


Price: $23.00 

Duke Ellington's AmericaCohen, Harvey G.

Duke Ellington's America


Cohen, Harvey G.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 688 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459100


Price: $19.00 

 

Ella Fitzgerald 1917-1996


Nicholson, Stuart

Paperback. London, Indigo, Rep. wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos

Record # 56556


Price: $12.00 

Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical IconVeal, Michael E.

Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon


Veal, Michael E.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 313 pages. Softcover. Light wear to cover, small crease to lower front cover corner. Small stain to top of text block, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230890


Price: $25.00 

Freedom is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties Saul, Scott

Freedom is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties


Saul, Scott

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages. Softcover. Normal light wear to cover, otherwise clean and tight copy apart from previous owners name in title page.

Record # 2230941


Price: $19.00 

Freedom of Expression: Interviews with Women in JazzBecker, Chris

Freedom of Expression: Interviews with Women in Jazz


Becker, Chris

Softcover. Houston, TX, Beckeresque Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Softcover. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230884


Price: $19.00 

 

From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes From a Jazz Life (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Crow, Bill

Softcover. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Softcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Wrapper has tanning from age, otherwise very good. Pages and edges also have some tanning, but doesn't affect text. Small ink stain on pages 236 and 237. Binding tight. In very good shape.

Record # 32043


Price: $25.00 

 

Guide to Jazz


Panassie, Hugues, and Madeleine Gautier

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages, hardcover. Pictures in b&w. Light foxing on back flyleaf. Dust jacket lightly soiled, chipped, small tears.

Record # 602769


Price: $35.00 

 

Handbook of Jazz, A


Ulanov, Barry

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 55336


Price: $20.00 

 

Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture


Gabbard, Krin

Hardcover. New York, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 251 pages, with illustrations. Very clean, tight and bright copy.

Record # 457302


Price: $10.00 

Jazz Book, The: From Ragtime to the 21st CenturyBerendt, Joachim-Ernst

Jazz Book, The: From Ragtime to the 21st Century


Berendt, Joachim-Ernst

Softcover. Chicago, IL, Lawrence Hill Books, Reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 754 pages. Softcover. Minor edge wear, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230856


Price: $18.00 

Jazz Guitar: Its Evolution and Its PlayersSummerfield, Maurice J.

Jazz Guitar: Its Evolution and Its Players


Summerfield, Maurice J.

Softcover. England, Ashley Mark Publishing Co, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover with minor edgewear. Clean, unmarked copy. Minor corner folds on front wrapper. Some shelf wear to back wrapper. Black & white images throughout.

Record # 470839


Price: $31.00 

 

Jazz


Claxton, William

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages, paperback with French flaps. Bright b&w photos of Jazz legends. Light rubbing to wraps. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951328


Price: $31.00 

JazzGiddins, Gary

Jazz


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., Reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 704 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight scuff marks to front of jacket. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230889


Price: $50.00 

 

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz


Kennedy, Rick

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, Reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape. Gives the first detailed account of the people and events behind this unique record company.

Record # 31772


Price: $19.00 

 

Listen: Gerry Mulligan - An Aural Narrative in Jazz


Klinkowitz, Jerome

Hardcover. NY, Schirmer, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 57618


Price: $35.00 

 

Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story 1900-1971


Jones, Max, John Chilton

Hardcover. Boston. MA, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine, covers excellent. Dust jacket price-clipped, very good. Label residue to front flyleaf. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. In excellent shape. Jones and Chilton bring "Satchmo" to life in this authorized biography. It's the story of how it really was for Louis Armstrong who grew up with less than nothing, and yet went further and lasted longer than most of his contemporaries.

Record # 32211


Price: $25.00 

Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles DavisChambers, Jack

Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis


Chambers, Jack

Softcover. New York, Da Capo, Reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Softcover. Very slight normal wear to cover edges, small sticker residue to back cover. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230886


Price: $15.00 

 

Music in the Air - The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason


Gleason, Toby

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, First Edition, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover with black & grey printed design & black titles to cover. Grey & white titles to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750453


Price: $31.00 

 

Music Lover's Handbook, The


Siegmeister, Elie

Hardcover. New York, NY, William Morrow and Company, Reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 817 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Toning to edges, black & white musical scores throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751417


Price: $13.00 

 

Over Time: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton


Hinton, Milt, David Berger, Holly Maxson

Softcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages featuring b&w photos of jazz performers by Hinton. This is a softcover edition, like new in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 404439


Price: $25.00 

 

Pictorial History of Jazz, A - People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz


Keepnews, Orrin, and Bill Grauer, Jr.

New York, Crown Publishers, Revised, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 297 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w. Very good condition. Light wrinkling to dust jacket laminate.

Record # 602774


Price: $25.00 

 

Pops Foster: The Autobiography of a New Orleans Jazzman


Foster, Pops/Tom Stoddard

Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, b&w photos, dust jacket covered with Mylar, dust jacket spine faded, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801216


Price: $30.00 

 

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaugan


Hayes, Elaine M.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards pristine, black binding tape and purple gilt title stamped on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Remainder mark on bottom edge, other edges clean. Pages bright and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Like new. Hayes brings to life the story of one of America's most musically gifted, creative, intelligent, and productive women.

Record # 31713


Price: $19.00 

 

Sacramento Jazz Scene - A Yearbook of Traditional Dixieland Jazz - Premier Edition


Sacramento Traditonal Jazz Society

Hardcover. Sacramento, Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613611


Price: $50.00 

 

Scatman


Haskins, Jim with Helen Crothers

hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 201842


Price: $18.00 

 

Shakspere (Literature Primers)


Dowden, Edward/John Richard Green (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, NY, D. Appleton and Company, Reprint, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Brick limp cloth boards with black titles to cover & spine. Lightly cracked to pp. 21. Light toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751418


Price: $25.00 

Stretching Out: Beginning to Intermediate Instruction Material for Jazz ImprovisationSpera, Dominic

Stretching Out: Beginning to Intermediate Instruction Material for Jazz Improvisation


Spera, Dominic

Softcover. Hialeah, FL, Columbia Pictures Publications, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Softcover. Some wear and fading to covers and spine. Small crease to front upper corner. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2230864


Price: $25.00 

 

Suits Me - The Double Life of Billy Tipton


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Remainder dot top edge

Record # 53922


Price: $18.00 

 

Suits Me - The Double Life of Billy Tipton


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 52701


Price: $20.00 

Swing Era, The: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945Schuller, Gunther

Swing Era, The: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945


Schuller, Gunther

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 919 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight normal wear to jacket, old price sticker to back of jacket. Very light foxing to top of text block, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230940


Price: $25.00 

The Best of Weather Report (Transcribed Scores)HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

The Best of Weather Report (Transcribed Scores)


HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

Softcover. Milwaukee, WI, Hal Leonard Corporation, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. Some curling to cover corners, spine slightly cocked. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230847


Price: $31.00 

Thelonious Monk Reader, Thevan der Bliek, Rob (ed.)

Thelonious Monk Reader, The


van der Bliek, Rob (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight fading to spine, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230934


Price: $19.00 

 

Tonight at Noon - A Love Story


Mingus, Sue Graham

NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 266 pages, b&w photos.

Record # 602804


Price: $15.00 

 

Visions of Jazz - The First Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 690 pages

Record # 175141


Price: $28.00 

 

Visions of Jazz - The First Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 690 pages

Record # 124194


Price: $28.00 

Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyGiddins, Gary

Visions of Jazz: The First Century


Giddins, Gary

Softcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 690 pages. Softcover. Very light wear to covers, some bending to front, overall clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230878


Price: $15.00 

 

Waiting for Dizzy


Lees, Gene

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801214


Price: $6.00 

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second CenturyGiddins, Gary

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 632 pages. Minor shelf-rubbing to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 450320


Price: $28.00 

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second CenturyGiddins, Gary

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century


Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 532 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light wear to jacket, two small scratches to upper jacket spine. Otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230937


Price: $19.00 

Why Jazz HappenedMyers, Marc

Why Jazz Happened


Myers, Marc

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear to jacket, scuffing to back. Name of previous owner in pen in front end paper. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230935


Price: $19.00 

 

You Can't Steal a Gift - Dizzy, Clark, Milt and Nat


Lees, Gene

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 185860


Price: $25.00 

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