The mediaeval modes their melody and harmony for the use of the modern composer
H.W. Gray Co, January 1933. Soft Cover. Sunned spine; mild shelf wear. Good+ copy without markings. Sound binding. More
H.W. Gray Co, January 1933. Soft Cover. Sunned spine; mild shelf wear. Good+ copy without markings. Sound binding. More
Edwin F. Kalmus, January 1932. Stapled Soft Cover. Some marginal notes. More
Musical opinion, January 1938. Hardcover. Third printing. Marble paper covered boards. Slight bow. Marginal wear. 'Little Acorn Bookshop' sticker affixed bottom of front free end page. Catalog number neatly inked bottom edge of front pastedown. 42 pages. Clean. Sound binding. Original UK price is stated 'Price One Shilling and Sixpece..... More
Tangent Books, October 2014. Paper Back. A collection of rare archive images by phographer John Spink document the Bristol Music scene from the days of Prog Rock, through Punk to Art Rock. Gill Loats, the first female DJ at the legendary Dug Out Club provides the words. Oblong octavo. Gently..... More
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, June 1971. Hardcover. More
St Martins Pr, November 1997. Hardcover. Once a thriving body of innovative and fluid music, jazz is now the victim of destructive professional and artistic forces, says Eric Nisenson. Corruption by marketers, appropriation by the mainstream, superficial media portrayal, and sheer lack of skill have all contributed to the demise..... More
University of Chicago Press, May 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. The club is run-down and dimly lit. Onstage, a black singer croons and weeps of heartbreak, fighting back the tears. Wisps of smoke curl through the beam of a single spotlight illuminating the performer. For any music lover, that image captures..... More
Let's Dance Corp, January 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Folio in jacket. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. There is a short note from Let's Dance publishing regarding the index on pink paper laid in. Clean, solid & without notes or markings or stains. More
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, January 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Some edge chipping and a couple of closed tears (both less than one inch) on the jacket. Foxing on the jacket, edges of the print block and the endpapers. Price sticker on the front jacket flap. Name in pen on the..... More
Bloomsbury Academic, October 2017. Paper Back. Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. In 1996, they collaborated..... More
Da Capo Pr, April 1993. Oversize Softcover. From the earliest riverboat jazz to Dizzy Gillespie's Hep-Sations of 1945, Swing Out is the story of the great black dance bands who dazzled America for over 40 years. Included are stories of the greats: how Fletcher Henderson would become so hypnotised by..... More
Dust to Digital/Lindeman, February 2015. Hardcover. In The Birth of Rock and Roll, Americana collector Jim Linderman has arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit of rock and roll in its early days--when a juke-joint with fifty patrons was a big show, as Linderman writes in his introduction..... More
Grossman Publishers, January 1972. First American. Hardcover. First US in mildly edgeworn jacket with crease in front flap. NOT price clipped. Original price of $15 on flap. Red cloth. More
Firefly Publishing, September 2002. Hardcover. The Pretty Things were the bad boys of the British blues boom. Fully illustrated and heavily researched, this is the biography of a band that were as important as The Stones in the development of British rock music. More
Cooper Square Press, October 2001. Paper Back. More
Univ of Washington Pr, October 1994. Oversize Softcover. A companion to the touring exhibition includes photos from all stages of Armstrong's career, collages, and paintings from the jazz era. More
Taschen, March 2015. Hardcover. Part of an edition of 1980 copies; shrinkwrapped in clamshell box. More
Taschen, 2014. Numbered. Hardcover. The definitive, authorized illustrated history of the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band The kind of fame and success The Rolling Stones have achieved in their 50-years and counting career is without parallel; their most famous riffs and catchiest lyrics are indelibly engraved in our collective..... More
Hal Leonard, November 1987. Paper Back. (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Matching folio to these albums recently released on compact disc. 30 songs featuring: All You Need Is Love * Back in the USSR * Birthday * Blackbird * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Revolution * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * Yellow Submarine..... More
Ayer Co Pub, June 1971. Hardcover. More
The University of Chicago Press, January 1939. Oversized Hardcover. Folio. No jacket. Clean interior. More
Headpress, May 2009. Trade Paperback. A collection of the writing, reviews and interviews of John Sinclair, spanning forty years and personally selected by the author. The music, people and topics include: Detroit in the 1960s, and the author as manager of the MC5; John Lennon; Sun Ra; Jack Kerouac; Dr..... More
Century Music, January 1938. Stapled Soft Cover. 16mo. More
Mandala Publishing, January 2009. Hardcover. "My Music, My Life" chronicles the extraordinary career of India s best-known musician. Through his relationships with George Harrison and Philip Glass in the 1960s, Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical musical to the world stage and became one of the most influential musicians of the..... More