Chicago Review Press, April 2012. Trade Paperback. Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times's reader poll John Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and risky. Nevertheless, he persisted, and..... More
Viking, March 2015. Hardcover. Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection forBiography Published in celebration of Holiday s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer s extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the..... More
Bloomsbury Academic, April 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the "Shearing sound"--the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique "locked hands" approach to playing the..... More
Quintet Pub. Ltd, January 2001. Oversized Hardcover. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, January 1976. Cloth. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. Some light fingerprints on the black cloth boards. More
Little Brown, January 1971. First American. Hardcover. More
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
Oxmoor House, June 1990. 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
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
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
