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
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
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, January 1976. Cloth. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. Some light fingerprints on the black cloth boards. 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
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
