Backbeat Books, November 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. This richly illustrated study honors the profound influence of saxophone virtuosos who have helped redefine jazz since the 1920s and those who continue to advance the music today. Edited by jazz critic and saxophonist Gelly, the 15 contributions provide historical essays and artist... 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
BookBaby, July 2017. Hardcover. An oral history of blues legend Benny Turner, from his birth and early childhood in Gilmer, TX to the family's move to Chicago, IL and the ultimate birth of his career in the gospel, R&B and blues genres. Surviving extreme poverty in East Texas followed by..... More
Columbia University Press, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing... More
Universe Publishing, 1988. Paper Back. Clean, solid, without markings. More
The Scarecrow Press, Inc., November 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Benny Goodman: Wrappin' It Up presents swing fans, jazz scholars, and collectors with newly discovered recordings, broadcasts, and engagements of the famed clarinetist unearthed since Connor's Benny Goodman: Listen to His Legacy (Scarecrow, 1988). The listings of hundreds of previously unknown... 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
Oxford University Press, USA, June 1988. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Since the 1950s, when Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro published Heah Me Talkin' to Ya, an oral history of jazz which drew heavily on Danny Barker's reminiscences, jazz buffs have waited impatiently for Barker's full account of his life in... 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
Chicago Review Press, August 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert... 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
St Martins Pr, March 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Sonny Rollins is one of jazz's great innovators, arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist, along with John Coltrane, in the history of modern jazz. He began his musical career at the age of eleven, and within five short years he was playing... More
Franklin Watts, September 1994. Trade Paperback. People whose power, influence, or perseverance have changed the world are the subjects of these candid biographies, which stress the impact of these individuals on the course of 20th-century events. Each book includes a bibliography and an index.Ellington's happy childhood, his music apprenticeship, the... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1993. Trade Paperback. Since its original publication in 1977, this well-balanced and beautifully illustrated book has been accepted as the standard one-volume history of jazz. Now in recognition of the many new developments in jazz over the last two decades, author Frank Tirro has... More
Da Capo Press, August 1998. Trade Paperback. Jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and bassoonist Garvin Bushell (1902-1991) performed with many of the twentieth century's greatest jazz musicians--from Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, and Cab Calloway to Eric Dolphy, Gil Evans, and John Coltrane--during his remarkable career that spanned from 1916 to the 1980s... More
Schirmer Books, January 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. 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
Alfred A. Knopf, January 2005. Oversize Softcover. More
Oxford Univ Pr, October 1991. Trade Paperback. Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music... More
Fotofolio, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Classic portraits of jazz greats spanning the late 1940's to the early 60's, as they performed in the clubs of New York and Paris. personal inscription on first page. More
Booksales, February 1991. Hardcover. Shelf wear and a half inch closed tear ohe jacket. More
Chelsea House Pub (L), September 2003. First Edition. Library Binding. Traces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound. Corners lightly bumped. More
William Morrow & Co. / Quill, January 1984. Paper Back. Clean & solid withou binding. More
Franklin Watts, September 1999. Hardcover. This series meets National Curriculum Standards for: Social Studies: Culture. More
University of California Press, March 2001. Trade Paperback. Mary Lou Williams--pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz--receives the attention she has long deserved in this definitive biography. More
