Univ of California Pr, August 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first with complete number string. Small quarto. {7' x 10'} In dustjacket with chips & tears along top & bottom edges. Grey marbled end pages with previous owner's name emblem blind stamped bottom corner front free end page. Blue cloth covered..... 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
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
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
