Encyclopedia of jazz and blues
Quintet Pub. Ltd, January 2001. Oversized Hardcover. More
Music - Jazz
Jazz: A History of America's Music
Knopf, November 2000. Oversized Hardcover. The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for The Civil War and Baseball. Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music--jazz..... More
Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide
Oxford University Press, USA, January 2011. Hardcover. What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions..... More
The Future of Jazz
Chicago Review Pr, May 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose
Coffee House Press, July 1992. Trade Paperback. The editors have collected the jazz-inspired works of close to sixty writers ranging from Julio Cortazar and Jessica Hagedorn to Langston Hughes and Ishmael Reed. Moment's Notice is the best anthology of jazz literature I've ever seen.--Bart Schneider, Hungry Mind Review ¶The jazz..... More
The World of Duke Ellington (Da Capo Paperback)
Da Capo Press, March 1981. Trade Paperback. More
Willie T. - The Untold Story of Willie 'Bill' Johnson and His Life Before, During, and After the Golden Gate Quartet
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, December 2012. Trade Paperback. Biography/Historical Fiction For the first time ever, a biography of Willie Thomas Johnson--founder, narrator, lyricist, and creative force behind the Golden Gate Quartet from 1931 to 1947-- is available for musicians, historians, Golden Gate Quartet fans, and anyone who wants to know..... More
Lena: A Personal and Professional Biography of Lena Horne
Stein & Day Pub, February 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream boards with embossed gold lettering. Blue cloth spine lettered in gold. Light shelf wear on the jacket with a few tiny edge cuts. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Light foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Jazz Masters of the Twenties
Collier Books, 1974. Trade Paperback. More
Jazz Masters Of New Orleans (A Da Capo paperback)
Da Capo Press, March 1979. Trade Paperback. More
Jazz Masters Of The 30s (Macmillan Jazz Masters Series)
Da Capo Press, March 1982. Trade Paperback. This is the only jazz history written by a musician that is not strictly autobiographical. Rex Stewart, who played trumpet and cornet with Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, knew personally all the giants of jazz in the 1930s and thus his judgments on..... More
Really the Blues
NYRB Classics, February 2016. Trade Paperback. Hailed as an "American counter-culture classic, " this "funny" and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal) Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued..... More
W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Knopf, March 2009. Hardcover. Before there was Elvis, there was W.C. Handy, "the man who made the blues." Here is the first major biography in decades of the man who gave us such iconic songs as "St. Louis Blues," "The Memphis Blues," and "Beale Street Blues," and who was responsible..... More
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism (Discovering America)
University of Texas Press, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the "Arkestra." Sun Ra took jazz from the inner..... More
Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan
Da Capo Press, August 1994. Trade Paperback. Sarah Vaughan, brought vividly to life in this definitive biography, possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy, Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughan's vital musical legacy and offers a detailed..... More
Dixonia: A Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon (Discographies)
Greenwood, July 1998. Hardcover. In this thorough research guide to the career and music of Bill Dixon the author has documented how Dixon refined a sonically unique pan-tonal language of trumpet playing. As a trumpeter, composer, educator, and theoretician, Bill Dixon has politically and musically influenced many phases of the..... More
To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs
Doubleday, July 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. This is not a beautiful copy: boards are rubbed, soiled, even a tad warped. Jacket is interiorly taped repaired, soiled and chipped. But it is INSCRIBED BY DIZZY GILLESPIE TWICE: 'To Brenda, Love Dizzy Gillespie' and 'To Pete, Ciao! Dizzy Gillespie' on the front..... More
A Century Of Jazz
Da Capo Press, August 1997. Oversize Softcover. A Century of Jazz is the first-ever chronicle of the major influence in western music this century. Organized by year, style, and place, it is supplemented with special features on subjects relevant to each period. Making deliberate reference to popular music in general..... More
Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, January 1976. Cloth. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. Some light fingerprints on the black cloth boards. More
Louis,The Louis Armstrong Story
Little Brown, January 1971. First American. Hardcover. More
The William Parker Sessionography
Centering Music, January 2014. Limited. Oversize Softcover. Very good condition all round. Some very minor edge wear on the cover. Only 500 printed. More
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Mariner Books, October 2010. Trade Paperback. Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut..... More
Jazz Memories: A Book of Days
Oxmoor House, June 1990. Hardcover. More
Blue : The Murder of Jazz
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
Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
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
