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[African-Americana – Jazz – San Francisco] Unknown Photographer
Street View of Dance Halls in San Francisco’s Barbary Coast Neighborhood c. 1910
San Francisco California 1910. Single photograph approximately 6 ½ x 9 inches manuscript verso reading “SF Barbary Coast 500 Block of Pacific â€THE SO DIFFERENT†now 550 Pacific Ave 1911â€. Appears to be trimmed from a larger photograph. Portion of image cut and pasted with editorial overpainting. Some damage to edges and corners with one tear at right middle some residue from pasting a now-missing object; overall very good. A photograph taken on Pacific Street in about 1910 showing a group of men standing by the curb in front of The Midway The Bear and The So Different nightclubs note that the sign for The Midway is pasted in. This block in Barbary Coast—â€Terrific Streetâ€â€”was home to a number of dance halls and early jazz clubs many of which like Purcell’s So Different Café were “black and tan†– catering to all races. Founded by former Pullman porters Lew Purcell and Sam King shortly after the neighborhood was rebuilt from the 1906 earthquake and fire Purcell’s was one of the better-known clubs. Influential ragtime and jazz pianist Sid LeProtti led the So Different Jazz band and King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton are among the alleged guest performers. Patrons could buy twenty-cent vouchers for a quick dance with one of the girls who worked and sometimes lived at the venue. Around 1913 though police began to crack down on drinking and dancing in the neighborhood and by the 1920s the venues were gone. unknown
Référence libraire : List2810
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[African-Americana – Jazz – Entertainment] Unknown
“LOOK! This is What You’ve Been Waitin’ For†Dance Night Featuring The Original Eleven Clouds of Joy
Sedalia Missouri 1929. 11 x 18 inches heavy cardstock. Manuscript note verso reads “Flor Alpino Vals / Vanderbeckâ€. Some staining and tears mainly marginal. Overall very good to excellent. An advertisement for a performance by the Original Eleven Clouds of Joy likely an iteration—of which there were many—of the popular Kansas City-based swing jazz band Clouds of Joy. The group was formed in 1921 by trumpeter Terrence Holder 1897–1983 and in 1929 was led by saxophonist Andy Kirk 1898–1992 and found success largely due to the arrangements and playing of Mary Lou Williams. They would tour the US through 1948 playing Kansas City-style jazz had the top song on the Billboard chart in 1938 and the first single to hit number one on Harlem Hit Parade in its inauguration in 1942 with the song “Take It and Git.†Contemporary newspaper accounts list the band as performing under the name “The Original Eleven Dark Clouds of Joy†during this period though the banner in the photograph here omits the word ‘dark.’ This poster represents an uncommon relic of the band’s early days touring regionally roughly a decade before they enjoyed national success. unknown
Référence libraire : List2808
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[ARCHITECTURE -- JAZZ AGE].
New ideas for bathrooms: suggesting floor plans color schemes treatments for walls and floors. New modes in fixtures and appointments.
Chicago IL: Crane Co. 836 S. Michigan Ave. 1926. 4to. 47 1 pp. With over 150 of colour illustrations & blueprint floor plans throughout Gray printed boards w/ black & blue lettering on front cover minor shelfwear very slight chipping at foot of spine faint rust to staples at gutter margin of text block still VG copy. First edition of this scarce catalogue emphasizing the importance of colour and the latest modern crane fixtures valves and fittings mixing their compact and graceful gleaming white enamel on iron units with fine marbles and flawless crystal. Each of the individual designs includes elevation drawings along with each wall illustrated as it would appear on the blueprints on the facing page for the floor plans. Some feature Greco-Roman or Pompeian design elements while others show vivid Art Deco influences. Worldcat locates 6 copies The Strong DLC Hagley MO Hist. Mus. Cincinnati Carnegie. Crane Co., 836 S. Michigan Ave., hardcover
Référence libraire : 59638
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[ARMSTRONG (Louis)] PANASSIE (Hugues).
Louis Armstrong.
Éditions du Belvédère, 1947. In-8 br. Coll. " Les Maîtres du Jazz ". Rare jaquette illustrée restaurée conservée. Biographie de L. Armstrong suivie d'une discographie complète établie par Charles Delaunay. 9 planches hors texte. E.O. Dédicaces autographes de Louis Armstrong et Hugues Panassié.
Référence libraire : L10276
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[ARMSTRONG (Louis)].
[Photographie originale figurant Louis Armstrong accoudé au comptoir d'un estaminet].
Dimensions : 248 x 172 mm.
Référence libraire : 17518
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[ARMSTRONG Louis] PANASSIE Hughes:
Louis Armstrong.
Paris, Nouvelles Editions Latines, coll. Jazz-panorama, 1969. In-12 broché de 220-[4] pages, couverture ornée d'une photographie.
Référence libraire : 8984
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[AUTOMOBILES -- JAZZ AGE]. POOLE, Ernest
The car of Croesus.
New York: Macmillan Company 1930. 8vo. 8 230 pp. Navy-blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering minor rubbing to spine very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. printed on metallic silver coated paper Art Deco cover art of 1920s limousine and the well-dressed set in orange & black minor chipping to head & foot of spine very minor edgewear & creasing upper fore-edge couple very small closed tears w/ minor very small tape repair still a VG/VG- copy. First edition of this fast-paced novel set against the backdrop of a penniless Russian Prince exiled by the Revolution who makes a deal with a clever Chicago fashion buyer to act as chauffeur and purchase the sumptuous “Car of Croesus†rented at exorbitant rates to patrons wishing to appear as millionaires. Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize for The Family in 1918. Very scarce in the original dustjacket. Macmillan Company, hardcover
Référence libraire : 53742
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[Bechet] Zammarchi
Sidney Bechet
Filipacchi 1989 In-4 reliure éditeur sous jaquette, 147 pp. Illustrations en noir
Référence libraire : 4188
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[Collectif]
Les Genies Du Jazz - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
Atlas 1990 6 volumes. In-4 relié 29 cm sur 23. Environ 190 pages par volume. Bon état d’occasion.
Référence libraire : 142980
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[Collectif] SEGHERS, Pierre
Jazz 47 America
Association Française de Gramophilie 1947 In-folio, broché, première couverture illustrée, 72 pp., nombreuses illustrations en noir et publicités à pleine page en couleurs. Couverture ternie avec accrox en tête et pied de dos, sinon exemplaire en bon état.
Référence libraire : 50412
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[DANCE SCHOOL PHOTOS -- JAZZ AGE/WOMEN]. [KNOWLES, Annabelle Gertrude (Director); BAKER, Almeron Joseph, BEEM, Ira Kintner & CEN
A captivating group of commercial studio photographs of the performers performances and costumes at the Hollywood College of Music Dancing and Fine Arts in Portland Oregon as the Jazz Age descended into the Great Depression. The performers of the “Baby Vanities†and “Kiddie Revue†range in age from 6 & 7 to teenage years including both girls and boys.
Portland OR: Hollywood College of Music Dancing & Fine Arts Baker Studio Granada Studio La Vere Photo Shoppe Photo Craft Studios ca. 1930-1933. Oblong 4to. 24 original photographs all preserved in archival mylar sleeves sized 6.25 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative others w/ manuscript captions added a few w/ annotations and/or photographer’s instructions on versos all with bright strong contrast a few w/ offsetting from previous mounting on versos and one w/ very small pinholes at corners from prior mounting. Recent cloth binder stamping front cover excellent grouping. These photographs vividly document the dance and music studio operated by Annabelle Knowles reflecting the fast evolving costumes and aesthetics of the twilight of the Roaring 20’s as the U.S. descended into the Great Depression. These photos also clearly reflect the influence of Gus Edwards 1879-1945 vaudeville’s premier producer of kiddie acts and who had produced and released the shorts “Kiddie Revue†in 1930 and 1931. His influence was not only driven by his songs “By the Light of the Silvery Moon & “School Days†but also discovering such stars as Groucho Marx Eddie Cantor Mae Murray Sally Rand and many others. The images depict girls in two-piece outfits in front of Art Deco staging for “Body and Soulâ€; bare-backed girls in Flapper Era inspired costumes for chorus line “Kiddie Revueâ€; song and dance routines featuring Ronald Chetwood in top hat with Marcile Shillito Virginia Collins and chorus line in Jazz Age era costumes and canes; and several show Barbara Jane Wicks Shirley Jay Mulkey and Sunny Dentler in Spanish inspired costumes for “Baby Vanities.†Another shows adolescent boy and girl dance team in an “Apache†dance inspired costume number. The Hollywood College of Music Dance & Fine Arts offered classes and instruction in all ages with the last few photos showing teenage girls in chorus line with short hair coquettish expressions and teamwork or chorus line numbers. Annabelle Knowles 1900-1989 was a musician and dancer who founded the Hollywood College of Music Dancing & FIne Arts at 4112 NE Sandy Blvd. some time in the late 1920’s. Most of the street directory references focus on 1929-1932 and her British-America theatre-director husband at the time Vincent Knowles 1883-1944 worked at the studio as well. Baker 1882-1972 was a longtime commercial studio photographer in Portland OR who had initially begun as a photographer with noted tourist travel guide Howard Eaton photographing tours through National Pakrs. Beem 1892-1984 was founder and photographer at Granada Studio located in the 1930’s at 515 Swetland Building in Portland. Centlivere 1878-1964 owned and operated La Vere Photo Shoppe and Photo Craft Studios on Sandy Blvd. in Portland for nearly all of his career. We could find no similar collections or photographs or even references to Annabelle Knowles and very few examples of any of these three photography studios in institutional holdings. Hollywood College of Music, Dancing & Fine Arts, Baker Studio, Granada Studio, La Vere Photo Shoppe, Photo Craft Studios, hardcover
Référence libraire : 58055
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[DANCING -- JAZZ AGE]. MURRAY, Arthur [TEICHMAN, Murray].
The modern dances: an introductory course.
New York: Arthur Murray 801 Madison Ave. 1923. 4to. 32 pp. Blue-tinted photo illustrations text diagram illustrations. Textured brown softcovers gilt lettering & decorative border on front cover yapp fore-edges minor soiling & fading front cover to lettering minor bumping to couple corners still a VG copy. First edition of one of the renowned dance studios’ instruction books after they opened their dance studio in New York in 1923 in conjunction with their struggling mail-order business. Murray pioneered dance instruction and dance schools to encourage exercise and build self-confidence and poise and was the first to broadcast live dance music on the radio in March 1920. Murray originated the idea of the “footprints†style of teaching dance now an Arthur Murray trademark and this book includes instructions for The Chasse Waltz the Tango foxtrot and The Cortez. Worldcat locates 4 copies w/ similar titles and different collations NYPL - 2 copies 51 & 24 pp. British Lib. 51 pp. BYU 63 pp. Arthur Murray, 801 Madison Ave., paperback
Référence libraire : 58318
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[ELLINGTON (Duke)]
" The Duke ". Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra.
Plaquette in-8 carré agrafée de 12 p. Programme de la tournée de Duke Elington organisée par Norman Granz en janvier-février 1967. Texte de Godo Remszhardt en anglais et en allemand. Nombreuses photos de Norman Granz. E.O.
Référence libraire : 29592
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[ELLINGTON Duke]TRAZEGNIES Jean de:
Duke Ellington (Harlem aristocrat of jazz).
Bruxelles, Les Editions du Hot Club, 1946. In-8 broché de 63 pages, couverture imprimée en deux tons ornée d'une photographie en noir, dos muet.
Référence libraire : 8972
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[FASHION -- JAZZ AGE]. [COMER, Charles E]
Comer all weather coats. Volume 113. 1924 styles. . . direct from factory to customer. Salesman sample catalogue with tipped-in wool canvas leather cotton and blend fabric swatches.
Dayton OH: The Comer Manufacturing Co. 1924. Tall 8vo. 5.5 x 10.5 in. 36 pp. Numerous illustrations 4 colour plates 4 sepia-tinted plates 64 wool wool blend canvas linen leather cotton and patterned fabrics some treated w/ coating tipped-in occasional offsetting from samples either surrounding the sample or on facing leaves. Dark red printed softcovers decoration & lettering in orange & blue minor soiling some creasing still a VG- copy. First edition of this scarce salesman sample catalogue for men and women’s Jazz Age raincoats and overcoats in the mid-1920s. The company was founded before World War I by Charles E. Comer b. 1887 who quickly established the company as one of the largest manufacturers in Ohio of raincoats. The colour fashion plates are quite striking for the period and offer invaluable historical reference for the styles and weight of raincoats sold during the Flapper Era. Comer produced rubber-lined coats offered deals if you ordered two coats at once and also offered Mackinaws General Purpose coats Rubber rain slickers reversible coats and even waterproof aprons for housewives. This catalogue notes that they had just completed their new 40000 square foot and even offered waterproof luggage and garment bags. They were well known for advertising in labor magazines trade magazines and professional magazines constantly promoting their product and recruiting new salesmen. Worldcat locates only 1 copy Vol. 166. The Comer Manufacturing Co., paperback
Référence libraire : 47496
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[FASHION -- JAZZ AGE TEXTILES].
Pure wool fabrics. Spring and Summer 1926. Let Taylor do your tailoring; Stock Report and Bargain List. Salesman sample catalogue with original price list and stock on hand.
New York & Chicago: J.L. Taylor & Co. 1926. Thick elephant folio 17 x 23.25 x 2.5 ins. 75 3 pp. printed on thick card stock each mounted on linen hinge. With 17 colour fashion plates illustrating Taylor styles of the period verso of almost all pages with 364 of 375 mounted textile samples in wool wool-rayon blends some felt backed silk moleskin corduroy cashmere waistband sample and more -- all samples clearly marked with prices and availability some of the 12 missing samples are indicated in pencil as being “Out†as well as a few present 1 additional pinned-in numerous illustrations throughout in blue-green colour tinting including Chicago & New York factories some diagrams charts and graphs. Original half-green cloth over gray green cloth corners gilt lettering on front cover colour plate w/ J.L. Taylor tailor mounted front cover some wear & minor bumping to fore-edges corners some minor soiling & occasional foxing to interior leaves -- some of it dust from the wool samples 10-15 samples with minor deterioration and evidence of old predation still a very good unsophisticated and remarkably complete example w/ original 9 x 21 in. double-sided stock list in red & black laid-in. First edition of this scarce and unusually complete salesman sample catalogue for Jazz era men’s suits in 1928-1929. J.L. Taylor maintained a huge tailoring operation in both Chicago and New York until after World War II employing hundreds of tailors and seamstresses to fill orders. The catalogues were very expensive to produce and so were most often found in department stores mercantiles and men’s stores which would have these catalogues on the sales floor for two years or more. The catalogue offers invaluable illustrated historical reference for the colours styles and fabrics during the era of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Flappers. Most of the colour fashion plates illustrating the available styles have elegantly dressed women and settings in the background including with an emphasis on sporting in summer so golf tennis croquet canoeing boating and swimming all make an appearance. Of particular interest is the wonderful dress chart indicating styles needed clothes accessories and shoes which one would need for Day Wedding Matinee Reception Evening Dress and many others offering an excellent marketing opportunity for the store to sell the customer items to compliment his suits overcoats and other fashion wear ordered from J.L. Taylor. The final plate focuses on the lightweight “Palm Beach†& “Mohair†suits at the height of the 1920’s boom in Florida featuring snappily dressed models in Panama straw hats and a lightweight fedora. Worldcat locates 1 partial copy Preserved at the Library of Congress stripped of samples and used as scrapbook for Wilbur’s Drug Store prescriptions of Portland ME -- not an unusual occurrence. J.L. Taylor & Co., hardcover
Référence libraire : 58100
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[Free Jazz] [ESP Disk]
ESP Disk Catalog
NY: ESP Disk 1971. Tabloid format 8 pp. printed on newsprint illustrated with a Gilbert Shelton character on the front. Paper tanned as would be expected with some loss to the folds and edges small light stain to middle front else a very good example. While we've had a few copies of the 1967 catalog and the more uncommon 'Special Complete Catalog" this one is new to us and were not aware of its existence until it threw itself over our transom. Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music starting with the release of Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity ESP became the most important exponent of the burgeoning free jazz music scene of the time releasing records by such future greats as Sun Ra Frank Wright and Sunny Murray among others. Along with free jazz the label also produced music by Ed Sanders' band the Fugs the Lower East Side folk of the Holy Modal Rounders and the primitive proto-noise of the Godz. While never much of a commercial success for the musicians the label's philosophy of "The artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-Disk" led to the creation of a musical output that to this day wields a heavy influence. <br/><br/> ESP Disk unknown
Référence libraire : 38867
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[Gary BURTON] - SIRO
Portrait caricature représentant : Gary BURTON - musicien -
Dessin original à l'encre de chine sur calque signé - format 13,5 x 10,5 -
Référence libraire : GF14965
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[Gershwin] Lipmann
L’Amérique de George Gershwin
Messine 1981 In-8 broché. Illustrations en noir. 223 pages. Bon état d’occasion.
Référence libraire : 5108
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[GOFFIN] - COLLECTIF.
Robert Goffin.
in-8 etroit, XL-112 pages, illustrations, broche, couv. Tres bel exemplaire. [MI-9] Textes de Alain Bosquet, Caillois, Cocteau, René Crevel, Pierre Mac Orlan, Jules Romains, Jean Rousselot, etc.
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[GRAPHICS] [JAZZ] MARTIN, David Stone
Music at Christmas and Christmas in music." Portfolio
Roosevelt NJ: by the Author c.1956. Quarto 37cm. Printed card portfolio holding twelve lithographic plates loose as issued. All lithographs are signed in plate; Martin has inscribed the portfolio "Jean and Sol Libsohn / David" undated. Very mild external toning and soil; Near Fine. Inside of portfolio is printed with a holiday sentiment and also a brief blurb from Alan Lomax commenting on the illustrations.<br /> <br /> Scarce portfolio of lithographic prints reproducing Martin's illustrations for Alan Lomax's Mr. Jelly Roll a biography of jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton published in 1956. Issued without imprint presumably printed as a Christmas gift to friends of the artist. This copy is inscribed to the photographer Sol Libsohn and his wife Jean who were Martin's neighbors in Roosevelt New Jersey a WPA town founded in 1939 which by the Fifties had become a destination for artists writers and musicians seeking refuge from but proximity to the New York art scene. Martin 1913-1992 was a noted mid-century illustrator known best for his many jazz album covers for Folkways and Blue Note in the Fifties and Sixties. Of the present portfolio we locate only a single copy in OCLC Pitt with no other example traced in commerce. unknown
Référence libraire : 84869
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[Gypsy Jazz] Dregni, Michael
Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend.
New York:: Oxford University Press 2004. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket . In Django Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome charismatic childlike and unpredictable Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium he was almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw. But with this maimed left hand flying over the frets and his right hand plucking at dizzying speed Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship. Oxford University Press, unknown
Référence libraire : 27319 ISBN : 019516752x 9780195167528
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[Gypsy Jazz Music] Dregni, Michael
Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing.
New York:: Oxford University Press 2008. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This volume is a mixture of travelogue detective story and personal narrative tracing the history of Gypsy Jazz from its beginnings with Django Reinhardt in Paris in the 1930s up to the present practitioners capturing the history and culture of this elusive music that has grown in popularity in recent years. Illustrated with historic photographs. Oxford University Press, unknown
Référence libraire : 29212
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[Harlem Renaissance] [Jazz Age]
Signed Photograph of Florence Mills 1927
New York 1927. 4.5x3.5" photograph slightly trimmed down affecting the studio stamp on the bottom edge. Signed by Florence Mills in 1927. Mounted on an autograph album page with a signature card from Betty Blythe to verso. Few spots to photo some soiling to edges. Signature bright and clear. Very good. <br /> <br /> Rare signed photograph from one of the most celebrated Black performers of the 1920s Florence Mills 1896-1927 who died at the age of 31 from complications from tuberculosis and an appendectomy. <br /> <br /> Mills was a child performer in travelling Black stage productions with her sisters as well as "The Tennessee Ten." One of her early major roles was in the Broadway musical Shuffle Along in 1921 one of the defining productions marking the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance. She was a regular performer at the Plantation Club and later headlined the Palace Theatre before becoming internationally known starring in Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1926. While performing some 300 shows in London of that year she became ill with tuberculosis her death the following year shocking the entertainment world.<br /> <br /> A naturally scarce signed photo from the year of her death depicting one of the defining performers of the Harlem Renaissance. unknown
Référence libraire : 9883
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[JAZZ & BLUES] HADLOCK, Richard; Rex Stewart; Ira Gitler; Joe Goldberg; Martin Williams
The Jazz Masters Series complete: Jazz Masters of the 20's - 30's - 40's - 50's -1957-1969; Jazz Masters of New Orleans
New York: Macmillan 1969-70. Second and fifth volumes are first printings; remainder are second or later printings. Six octavo volumes. Uniform cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; 255223290246288287pp; illustrated with photographic plates halftones. All in Very Good or better condition in the original dustwrappers; jacket to 4th volume slightly ragged along upper edge else all Very Good or better. An indispensable set compiling reviews interviews profiles and critical articles with reading lists and selected discographies. Macmillan unknown
Référence libraire : 81807
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[Jazz - Japan]
The Newest Pocket Jazz
Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company 1938. Very Good. Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company 1938. Presumed First Edition. 12mo 15.5 cm; publisher's pictorial yellow and orange card wrappers lettered in black; 1923pp.; brief illus. sheet music throughout. Moderate wear and dust-soiled to wrappers small loss mid-spine briefly affecting text textblock a bit browned and foxed else Very Good bright and sound. <br /> <br /> Evidently unrecorded Japanese guide to popular jazz music the first half almost entirely in Japanese the latter half bilingual primarily in Japanese and English. Includes the music for classics by Jerome Kern like "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"; Romberg and Hammerstein's "Lover Come Back To Me"; Moises Simons' Cuban rumba foxtrot "The Peanut Vendor"; instantly recognizable classics like "Blue Moon" and "La Cucaracha"; and songs by Mabel Wayne and Irving Berlin. The compilation also includes songs in Spanish French and German accompanied by its Japanese translation. <br /> <br /> A fascinating and beautiful little guide documenting the rise in popularity of Jazz music in Japan and Tokyo in particular issued between the devastating earthquake of 1923 and the beginning of World War II. The import of Jazz to Japan was first heralded with the rise in trans-Pacific luxury liners. A Japanese version of "My Blue Heaven" reproduced here became available as early as the 1920s and the popular 1929 Japanese film "Tokyo March" employed Jazz in its soundtrack. The genre was popular enough that Columbia and Victor records formed subsidiary companies in Japan.<br /> <br /> The popularity of jazz in Japan continues to this day touted by one of the country's most prominent public and literary figures Haruki Murakami who first opened his Jazz club right out of college after falling in love with the genre at an Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers show in Kobe in 1964. <br /> <br /> No copies of this work located in OCLC as of June 2025. <br /> <br /> References: <br /> <br /> "How Japan Came To Love Jazz" online interview with historian E. Taylor Atkins author of "Blue Nippon"<br /> <br /> "Jazz Messenger" by Haruki Murakami available online. Symphony Publishing Company unknown
Référence libraire : 33168
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[JAZZ AGE -- FLAPPER WOMEN]. GATES, H[enry] L[eyford].
Joanna: of the skirts too short and the lips too red and the tongue too pert.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1926. 8vo. 350 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Dark-blue publisher’s cloth red lettering & ruling embossed News Service ownership stamp at lower right corner title w/ d.j. vivid cover art of flapper “Joanna†in red by Charles Wrenn minor chip & closed tear to lower fore-edge minor chipping head of spine VG/VG- copy. First Grosset edition this novel was released along with the First National flapper silent film now lost and directed by Edwin Carewe co-wrote screenplay with Lois Zellner and starred Dorothy Mackaill Jack Muluall and Paul Nicholson. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
Référence libraire : 61473
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[Jazz Age Paris] Blake, Jody
Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris 1900-1930.
<p>Jazz Age Paris Blake Jody. Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris 1900-1930. University Park: Penn State Press 1999. First Printing of the First Edition. ISBN: 0271017538. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus dust jacket with light sunning to the spine that is common wtih this title. In Le Tumulte noir Jody Blake focuses on the impacts of African sculpture and African-American music and dance on Parisian popular entertainment and modernist art literature and performance. Blake discusses the reception of ragtime-era and jazz-age entertainment as well as other African visual and performing art forms to provide new ways of understanding the development of modernist primitivism from Matisse and Picasso to Futurism Dada Surrealism and Purism. But the influence of art nÈgre went well beyond the avant-garde art world. Starting with the cakewalk of the 1900s and culminating with the Charleston of the 1920s the book studies the African-American idioms that were involved in larger cultural social and political developments. As an illustration Blake argues that performers such as Josephine Baker and Sidney Bechet of Revue nÈgre fame were thought to affect the political balance between Africa and Europe during the colonial period. Le Tumulte noir is divided into six chronological chapters each a well-researched well-conceived and well-written synthesis of the histories of art literature music and dance.</p> Penn State Press, hardcover
Référence libraire : 26915 ISBN : 0271017538 9780271017532
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[JAZZ AGE CATALOGUE -- STOVES].
Monarch Malleable electric cooking devices. . . Dealer’s photographic and printed salesman sample catalogues including five colour-tinted linen-backed photographs of Monarch Stoves.
Beaver Dam WI: Malleable Iron Range Co. 1922-23. Three works in one. Oblong 4to. 38; 3-24; 34 pp. 35-39A leaves 39-66 i.e. 68 pp. 1st -- Colour-illustrated title in gray black orange & light blue printed and illustrated throughout with each black & white illustration of stove w/ orange & gray border; 2nd -- numerous plates in black & white black printed borders text illustrations diagrams; 3rd -- illustrated title numerous plates 5 linen-backed colour-tinted photographs w/ linen hinges text illustrations. Tan softcovers bound w/ two brass screw-posts at upper margin w/ Monarch Malleable range instructions cooking times and thermometer instructions preserved in original printed envelope laid-in minor shelfwear very minor thumbing rubbing still VG copy w/ ownership stamp of J.ohn Y. Hicks b. 1881 Malleable Iron Range sales rep who worked as railroad messenger and then machinist and salesman following World War I. First edition thus of these nicely illustrated salesman sample catalogues of Jazz Age electric stove appliances with electric cook tops insulating blocks an electric appliance plug-in on the side as well as automatic timer and temperature controls. These beautiful stoves could be purchased with enamel finish and as one oven cabinet ranges two oven cabinet ranges one oven square ranges one oven H type cabinet range with built-in kitchen heaters and more. The nicely executed colour-tinted linen-backed photographs showing Malleable stoves provide excellent contemporary visual documentation of the actual colours of the popular stoves folloowing World War I. Malleable Iron Range Company existed from 1896-1985 and at its height after World War I employed over 1200 employees producing a variety of stove and oven appliances which were coal & wood burning electric and gas. No copies located in Worldcat. Malleable Iron Range Co., paperback
Référence libraire : 53307
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[JAZZ AGE RUGS -- CATALOGUE]. [OLSON, Walter E]
Olson velvety rugs. Reversible seamless. Catalog No. 67. Spring. . . .
Chicago: Olson Rug Company 1922. 8vo. 32 pp. Colour-illustrated throughout numerous black & white text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated and scarce Jazz Age flooring catalogue for the famed Chicago rug manufactuer. Found in 1874 by Walter E. Olson this beautiful catalogue includes a number of interior designs showing the rugs fitted into Arts & Crafts homes and Flapper Era homes with decor window treatments and furnishings. The Olson Rug Company was a pioneering recycling firm detailing how they used old carpets rugs and old clothing to produce velvety rugs which would rival in appearance and wearing high grade Wiltons and Axminsters. The Olson Company is perhaps best remembered for the Olson Park and Waterfall which was a popular local tourist attraction located outside the factory until sold to Marshall Field in 1965 which subsequently plowed the gardens under and created a parking lot. Olson Rug Company, paperback
Référence libraire : 51291
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[JAZZ AGE TEXTILES -- WEAVING BOOKS]. SCHUMANN, Otto F[ranz].
Philadelphia Textile School manuscript textile sample books filled with weave formation plates textile samples drawings.
Philadelphia PA: Otto F. Schumann Philadelphia Textile School ca. 1925. Small 4to. 8.25 x 9.2 in. 75 leaves unnumbered including 32 leaves with detailed colour charts on weave formations producing various kinds of cloth 3 tipped-in textile samples together w/ weaving instructions in manuscript. Original limp leather 3-ring binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover ink lettering & association of Otto F. Schumann on front cover some soiling dustsoiling edgewear still VG exemplar. This Jazz Age weaving manuscript notebook complete with weave formation design plates fabric samples and instructions offer a remarkable and invaluable artifact of how a young American textile designer and weaver received training at the famed Philadelphia Textile School now Philadelphia University during the 1920s. These course books were judged on completeness and the aspiring weaver’s skill in presenting the details about the instruction as well as their abilities in running the machinery required to produce the cloth. This manuscript notebook includes Schumann’s detailed plates and notes on producing color effect on the plain weave creating Broken Twills Crowfoot Satins Checked & Figured Broken Twills Entwining Twills Basket Weaves and Broken Satins. The extensive manuscript notes detail the loom instructions how many lines are required composition and more in producing the assorted effects. Because of the poor quality of United States textiles exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 the Philadelphia Textile Manufacturers pushed for a formalized vocational school to train weavers designers and textile workers. In 1884 it became part of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art with 81 students enrolled by 1885 and by 1894 the School of Textiles added a Department of Wool Carding & Spinning and a Department of Cloth Finishing and Design. By the 1920s the Philadelphia Textile School was offering extensive three-year textile courses chemistry and dyeing courses as well as design courses in cottons woolens worsteds silks Jacquard design and more. Schumann 1906-1967 was the son of Hugo Schumann founder and owner of the Maid Hosiery Mills in Reading PA through the opening decades of the 20th century for whom he worked with until after World War II as designer and sales executive. Otto F. Schumann, Philadelphia Textile School, hardcover
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[JAZZ AGE CATALOGUE].
Rothschild. America’s most beautiful toiletware for 1925.
Chicago: Rothschild Brothers 1925. Tall 8vo. 100 pp. Over 100 colour illustrations 100s of black & white text illustrations & photos. Blue & silver printed softcovers elegant design on front cover w/ blue border and simulated silver mirror very minor soiling some shelfwear still VG copy w/ original order form & price change notice tipped-in. First edition of this beautifully illustrated catalogue of Flapper Era toiletry ware including dresser sets in beautiful Bakelite and celluloid cases men’s military sets with varieties of brushes perfume bottles manicure instruments shoe horns jewelry boxes clocks and much more. Rothschild Brothers, paperback
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[JAZZ AGE RUGS -- CATALOGUE]. [OLSON, Walter E]
Seamless domestic rugs: with all the delicate shades of the Oriental. Catalog No. “BBâ€.
Chicago: Olson Rug Company 1925. Oblong 4to. 9.75 x 7.8 in. 2 48 2 pp. Colour-illustrated throughout numerous black & white decorative border illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers vivid wraparound Orientalist cover art of scene depicting bedouin camels & tents in the desert seated upon Oriental rugs minor shelfwear slight bumping to couple corners still VG bright copy including order blank in red & black w/ pictorial map on verso of Olson Rug railroad time deliveries. First edition of this lavishly illustrated and scarce Jazz Age flooring catalogue for the famed Chicago rug manufacturer filled with striking Orientalist inspired Persian carpets Middle Eastern Central Asian and East Asian patterns intended to brighten any Craftsman home. Found in 1874 by Walter E. Olson this beautiful catalogue includes a number of interior designs showing the rugs fitted into Arts & Crafts homes and Flapper Era homes with decor window treatments and furnishings. The Olson Rug Company was a pioneering recycling firm detailing how they used old carpets rugs and old clothing to produce velvety rugs which would rival in appearance and wearing high grade Wiltons and Axminsters. The Olson Company is perhaps best remembered for the Olson Park and Waterfall which was a popular local tourist attraction located outside the factory until sold to Marshall Field in 1965 which subsequently plowed the gardens under and created a parking lot. Worldcat locates 1 copy Winterthur. Olson Rug Company, paperback
Référence libraire : 59963
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[JAZZ AGE ROMANCE]. PATRICK, Diana [pseud of WILSON, Desemea Newman].
See my shining palace.
New York: Jacobsen Publishing Co. Inc. 1930. 8vo. 335 5 pp. Tan cloth black Art Deco lettering black ruling uniform interior toning as usual w/ d.j. Art Deco fadeaway cover art of woman in print dress on red background artist initial “H†minor edgewear creasing still VG/VG copy. First American edition of this Flapper Era romance novel set against the backdrop of contrived marriages land swindles and more in the new British suburbs. Wilson 1878-1965 wrote over 30 romance novels following World War I through World War II most under the name “Diana Patrick†and is perhaps best remembered as mother of Romilly Cavan Isabel Wilson who published her debut novel Heron at 21 years old. Jacobsen Publishing Co., Inc., hardcover
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[JAZZ AGE CATALOGUES -- FASHION].
Spring and summer 1925. Catalog No. 47. Your Bargain book New York styles and general merchandise; Fall and winter 1925. The new handy catalog yet just as “Big†as ever. . . .
New York: The Charles William Stores Inc. 1924-1925. Two vols. 4to. 548 8; 518 8 pp. With numerous colour plates colour-tinted text illustrations over 1000 black & white text illustrations diagrams. Colour-illustrated softcovers minor soiling wear slight sunning front cover of vol. 1 creasing to spine; minor creasing shelfwear vol. 2 light uniform interior toning as usual still VG- set. First edition of the complete year of Jazz Age catalogues from the Charles William Stores which offered a treasure trove of everyday fashions work clothes and household and consumer goods during the Roaring 20s offering the glamour and style of New York to the rest of the country. Their fashions were intended for the average American with emphasis on the more “endowed†woman and “stout†man during the Jazz Age emphasizing chic styles and well-woven fabrics. These catalogues detail the high grade work pants riding breeches denim jeans corduroy work pants along with triple-sewed work denim overalls and coats which could be purchased as well as those made out of Wabash Stripe Stifel denim cloth noted for its durability. No copies located in Worldcat of Spring & Summer 1925; 3 copies located of Fall & Winter 1925 Henry Ford Harvard American Textile History Museum. The Charles William Stores, Inc., paperback
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[Jazz Age Photographs - Men's Suits]
Two large fashion window display photographs of men's suits in downtown Bridgeport Connecticut
1925. Two black & white photo images 8" x 10" on glossy stock mounted in Crown Studio mats 11 1/4" x 13 1/4". Images are night shots of windows depicting surroundings full of architectural details. Very minimal soiling to lower fore-edge. 1 image with a bit longer exposure time still a very good pair of photos. These two commercial photos of 1920s window displays provide an invaluable historical glimpse into the marketing of men's fashions at the height of the Jazz Age. The photos include unique period elements with breathtaking flower arrangements positioned amongst the displayed clothing. The men's suits range in tints and style primarily including double-breasted and single-breasted suits with trousers carefully draped over surrounding decorative tables and stands cravats at the neck and each with a dapper cane displayed above it. Rich draperies of men's suit fabrics have been arranged below and around the displays. Frank Jacoby's store was a thriving business in Bridgeport CT. at 1083 Broad Street until the throes of the Great Depression when they were forced to close in 1933. unknown
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[JAZZ AGE]. KELLY, Fred C
But on the other hand -- !
New York: Rae D. Henkle 1928. 8vo. viii 182 pp. Yellow boards orange lettrng w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this scarce and riotous anthology of essays and humor on the Jazz era including Flappers are safeguards Men are the vainer sex Parents are snobs Stupid men marry early and much more. Rae D. Henkle, hardcover
Référence libraire : 39300
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[JAZZ AGE]. O'HARA, John
Butterfield 8. . . .
New York: Grosset & Dunlap c. 1935 1941. 8vo. 310 pp. Beige publisher’s cloth blue lettering on spine minor shelwear soiling w/ d.j. moody Art Deco cover art by Arthur Hawkins representing Manhattan’s Upper Eastside minor chipping head of spine couple closed tears creasing edgewear still VG/G copy w/ original Newport OR drugstore stamp on front pastedown. First Grosset Edition reprinting the 1935 Harcourt Brace original of this novel set against the backdrop of the waning years of the Jazz Age and the promiscuous experiences of Gloria Wondrous including her affair with Weston Liggett and assorted friends. In 1960 25 years after its first publication the novel was adapted into the film starring Elizabeth Taylor for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
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[Jazz Age] Riley II, Charles A
Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism.
<p>Jazz Age Riley II Charles A. Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism. Lebanon: ForeEdge 2017. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Among many art music and literature lovers particularly devotees of modernism the expatriate community in France during the Jazz Age represents a remarkable convergence of genius in one place and period-one of the most glorious in history. The outpouring of boundary-pushing novels paintings ballets music and design was so profuse that it belies the brevity of the era 1918–1929. Drawing on unpublished albums drawings paintings and manuscripts Charles A. Riley offers a fresh examination of both canonic and overlooked writers and artists and their works by revealing them in conversation with one another. </p> ForeEdge, hardcover
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[JAZZ AGE]. ROCHE, Arthur Somers
The age of youth.
New York: Sears Publishing Co. Inc. 1930. 8vo. 6 299 1 pp. Beige cloth purple lettrng mnr dustsoilng w/ d.j. mnr chppng hd & ft of spine tape repairs to tears chppng VG-/Fair w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition of this amusing Jazz era story of a beautiful girl who persuades a millionaire to torn over $ 25000 to her without asking for a quid pro quo so she can break into society. Sears Publishing Co., Inc., hardcover
Référence libraire : 39980
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[Jazz Archives] Nathaniel Jack (Nat) "Monk" McFay
Archive of nearly 150 photographs of jazz blues and popular music performers including 50 INSCRIBED photographs as well as a handful of personal photographs belonging to jazz drummer and bandleader "Monk" McFay circa 1930s through 1950s
N.p.: N.p. 1930. Large personal archive of nearly 150 photographs of various jazz blues and popular music performers nearly 50 of which are inscribed as well as a handful of personal and family photographs all belonging to jazz drummer and bandleader Nathaniel Jack Nat "Monk" McFay with the majority of photographs dating from the 1930s to the 1950s in jazz clubs in Texas Oklahoma Los Angeles San Francisco St. Louis and Hawaii.<br /> <br /> An impressive archive that is a literal survey of African-American jazz blues and popular music in the first half of the twentieth century all associated with and many inscribed to a notably loved and respected musician and bandleader<br /> <br /> Included among the nearly 150 photographs in the archive are press photographs of African-American jazz blues and popular music performers including: Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong with Roy Eldridge and Art Tatum at Stuff's Back Stage Club Warren Bracken Buddy Banks Earl Bostic Kirtland Kirk Bradford "Stuffy" Bryant "Sister" Wynona Carr performing with McFay and Art Foxall Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett "Little" Harry Caesar The Eddie Christian Band Marie Dickerson Coker Gene Coy Tina Tixon Dorothy Donegan The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra Lorenzo Flennoy aka Flournox Troy Flloyd Viviane Greene George Jenkins Betty Hall Jones Luke Jones Lorenzo "The Hat" Manley Oscar McLollie wrestler Jim "Black Panther" Mitchell James Moody Esvan Mosby Gladys Palmer Cleo Pierce William "Frosty" Pyles Nina Russell Leslie Sheffield Fred Skinner Effie Smith Fletcher Smith C.B. Stroud Rabon Tarrant and Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker among many others.<br /> <br /> As well as the aforementioned musicians and performers the archive also includes various photographs of McFay performing and socializing with various musicians bands and orchestras throughout his career. Also present are: a circa 1915 group schoolhouse photograph presumably including McFay or family members a 1931 photograph of the Salem Baptist Church congregation a 1949 Certificate of Award to McFay from the Bay Area Negro Business Men a "Clef Club" by-laws booklet dated 1957 and a 1986 pencil portrait of McFay artist unknown.<br /> <br /> Nathaniel Jack Nat "Monk" McFay born in Wichita Falls Texas in 1908 began his storied musical career in the early 1930s playing drums for Roderick Thomas' territory band Red Williams and Joe Brantley's Spotlight Entertainer Orchestra in Texas and Oklahoma before moving to Los Angeles in 1935. It was in Los Angeles that McFay joined Bernard Banks' ensembles Bernard Banks and His 5 Clouds of Rhythm and the Bernard Banks Sextet and with whom he made his first of many tours of Hawaii playing the Casino Ballroom in Honolulu. In 1936 McFay lead his own band at the Casa Loma Ballroom in St. Louis with which he toured Honolulu again in 1937. From 1938 to 1944 McFay played along side with among many others Leslie Sheffield Henry Coker and Harlan Leonard before rejoining Buddy Banks again in 1945. It was in 1945 that McFay made his first recordings with the Buddy Banks Sextet Marion "The Blues Woman" Abernathy and Howard McGhee and His Combo which included Charles Mingus. McFay's career continued through the 1950s and into the 1960s playing in and leading various ensembles largely in Los Angeles and Honolulu.<br /> <br /> Photographs: 11 x 14 inches 1 8 x 10 inches 97 5 x 7 to 10 x 7 inches 20 1.5 x 2 inches to 4 x 5 inches 31. Very Good to Very Good plus overall many with creasing and chipping. Eight of the above photographs mounted onto cardboard as maintained by McFay.<br /> <br /> Other materials: Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown
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[JAZZ BAND ARCHIVE -- BIG BAND LEADER PORTLAND, OR, CALIFORNIA & WASHINGTON]. [LEWIS, Lyle Erwin].
An outstanding archive of souvenir photographs ephemera scrapbooks and daily diaries chronicling the fortunes of a popular Jazz Band musician and Big Band Leader in the Pacific Northwest and California during the Roaring 20’s. Lewis directed and played for the house bands of the Congress Hotel Multnomah Hotel McElroy’s Spanish Ballroom orchestra leader at the Coronado Beach Hotel in California Portland Night Club Garden Dancing Palace in Spokane WA and the famed Bungalow Club in Seaside OR.
Portland OR Spokane WA San Francisco CA & Seaside OR: Lyle E. Lewis Dance Orchestra ca. 1920-1944. Eight vols. 1st - 4to. 48 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper w/ 100’s of pieces of ephemera mounted and laid-in including 7 silver gelatin photographs sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. many different TLS and ALS most on stationery letterhead for assorted hotels KGW Radio and others many newspaper clippings tickets promotional brochures advertising cards dance tickets along with a spoof printed “Wanted†notice for Ted Mullen alias Sourdough Sullen with $ 500 million reward offered and large double-page advertising broadside on yellow-gold tinged thick paper stock at rear for gig in Astoria OR under the auspices of the Co. L 186th Infantry Oregon National Guard. Contemporary pebbled black boards punch-sewn at gutter margin chipping edgewear still VG- exemplar; 2nd - 4to. 92 pp unpaginated w/ majority of leaves on ruled paper including 18 leaves of mylar sleeves featuring the majority of the 23 silver gelatin photographs most sized 8 x 10 in. photographer’s imprints on versos remainder w/ clippings promotional announcements tickets broadsides ALS & TLS documents throughout along with a long radio program script. Contemporary 2-ring blue cloth binder rounded corners some edgewear rubbing still VG; 3rd-7th - 16mo. Five daily diaries Approx. 700 pp unpaginated. w/ approx. 4000 words manuscript annotations in ink & pencil throughout featuring some laid-in miniature photos receipts business cards including 1 photographic souvenir business card for Cole McElroy’s Dance Band and Cole McElroy’s Spanish Ballroom 1 tiny postage stamp photo of Lewis at his bungalow in Seaside all bound in cloth some wear still VG grouping; 8th - 12mo. Approx. 150 pp unpaginated. of ruled paper mostly typescript ink & pencil manuscript some ruling throughout annotations & checkmarks last 4th or so blank. Flexible black cloth 6-ring binder business card for Lewis as Commercial Agent for ACME Fast Freight taped in on front pastedown 3 blank routing order forms in red & black some scuffing edgewear still VG all from the library of Genevieve Martha Lewis Levin 1911-1994. This unusually well-preserved archive of a Roaring 20’s Jazz Orchestra musician and Band Leader in the Pacific Northwest reveals the exuberance and business success of this largely forgotten artist through his successful years before foundering during the Great Depression. Both scrapbooks open with clippings thank you and recommendation letters as well as dance broadsides and photographs during 1926 at the height of Lyle Lewis’s orchestra appreciation. Testimonials include B.J. Saad who owned the Garden Dancing Palace and stated “I have taken the Garden which is second to no other ballroom west of Chicago. That is why I have secured Lyle Lewis recognized as one of the best orchestra leaders on the Coast.†C.W. Craig of Lipman Wolfe & Co. department store extolls that Jazz music dance held at the Multnomah Hotel March 16 1926 that “I don’t think we have ever enjoyed better or more up to date dance music than that furnished by your splendid aggregation.†Broadsides and notices advertise the Lewis Jazz Orchestra playing the Grand Ball Room at the Masonic Temple Congress Hotel leading McElroy’s Oregonians at the McElroy’s Spanish Ballroom the Dessert Hotel Oasis near Spokane parties for Studebaker and more. One of the mounted letters includes a rather sad severance letter signed by Cole McElroy explaining the circumstances of Lyle Lewis’s leaving stating “I realise that you were a victim of circumstances. On account of the fact that you had a fine band organized. . . certain music masters of the theatre jobs saw fit to take your men away from you thereby breaking up your fine band and forcing me to make a deal for another organization.†McElroy 1888-1947 was known as “Pop†McElroy was a popular band leader who during the years before World War I and after played the Palm Gardens often and had great success in his McElroy Spanish Ballroom which opened in 1926 and then opened another Seattle McElroy Ballroom in 1928. Several TLS on letterheads include those for KXL Radio station KGW Radio Station and the KOIN Studio Director for The Portland News which played three nights a week on air for over six months. The many photographs capture the Lyle Lewis band joking around with their instruments on the road fully arrayed on stage in the Radio Station posing at various venues stages and even one as late as 1939 conducting the Lyle E. Lewis Dance Orchestra. The band included Cluet Mansfield formerly with Henry Halsted band William Webber on drums Eddie Scroggins & Frank Champion as sax players G. Berardinelli on Bass and also played dances at the Irvington Club Multnomah Athletic Club and for a while with the historic Congress Hotel in Portland which had been the City’s first reinforced concrete building erected during the Progressive Era and by 1924 expanded to 119 rooms with vibrant Jazz ballroom. The daily diaries for 1929 and 1930 show that Lewis regularly played at the Cotillion Hall now the Crystal Ballroom initially at $ 7.00 per night in 1929 and then steadily dropping to less than half by 1933. He writes about traveling for a gig in San Francisco with Mansfield in 1929 leaving Tuesday and arriving Wednesday Sept. 18 1929 driving 40 mph and getting 19 miles to the gallon with a drive made in 19 hours and 15 minutes. He played extensively at the Bungalow Club in Seaside OR which had opened originally June 19 1920 and for more than 25 years was the destination for the biggest names in the Big Band Jazz era including Lyle E. Lewis Cole McElroy Duke Ellington Bob Crosby Glenn Miller and tragically became connected with the death of Jimmie Lunceford who died from a heart attack just before playing his last set at the Bungalow after playing McElroy’s Ballroom in Portland 2 nights before. Lewis 1890-1948 was a popular Portland Oregon based jazz band & orchestra leader who managed to lie about his age and enlist at 15 in the Oregon National Guard Co. G 3rd Battalion served for three years and in May 1910 married Genevieve Franklin while working as salesman and musician before World War I Following the War he quickly became a successful band leader including successful stints with the Cole McElroy Spanish Ballroom Congress Hotel Multnomah Hotel Bungalow Garden Ballroom as well as the Coronado Hotel in California. As indicated by the daily diaries he maintained a fairly close relationship with his daughter Genevieve “Martha†but became largely estranged from his wife Genevieve living in separate rooming houses or hotels. Still in her position as a sales manager she managed to convince Meier & Frank to hire him as their house band for store functions and the restaurant while during the Great Depression he mostly worked for the US Forest Service mapping division while his show business largely disappeared. By 1943 he became the commercial agent for ACME Fast Freight where he worked as commercial agent until his death. This cataloguer could find no surviving recorded discography record for Lyle E. Lewis and his assorted incarnations although there are a few recordings for the Cole McElroy Band from 1926-1928 which most likely would have included him as band leader and musician. Lyle E. Lewis, Dance Orchestra, hardcover
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[Jazz Biography] Gillespie, Dizzy with Al Fraser
To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs--Dizzy Gillespie.
<p>New York:: Doubleday 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy in a Very good plus unclipped unfaded dust jacket with some tiny nicks to the edges of the spine and two short closed edge tears. This autobiography blends Dizzy's own story along with the thoughts and remembrances of those who knew and with him over the years including such notables as Miles Davis Billy Eckstine Cab Calloway Kenny Clarke to name but a few.</p> Doubleday, hardcover
Référence libraire : 22006 ISBN : 0385120524 9780385120524
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[Jazz Clubs]
Original Hickory House Dinner Menu circa 1940s
New York: The Hickory House 1940. Vintage three-color dinner menu from the renowned 52nd Street jazz club circa 1940s with a "Chef's Special" card stapled to the top outer corner of the second leaf.<br /> <br /> One of the longest running and premiere jazz clubs of "Swing Street" as 52nd Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues was known in the 1930s through the 1950s Hickory House was opened shortly after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 by impresario John Popkin. Featuring a huge oval music bar depicted on the cover of the menu on offer here Hickory House was both a swing venue and the spot to grab dinner and cocktails before a show. A musician's club Hickory House presented and served jazz luminaries for three decades. Among those known to perform or frequent the venue included Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Benny Goodman Artie Shaw and Thelonious Monk among countless others many of whom were known to be found sitting in with the house band The Hickory House Trio Marian McPartland Bill Crow and Joe Morello on Sunday afternoons in the 1950s. In 1956 jazz pianist and composer Jutta Hipp released two acclaimed Blue Note albums recorded at the club "At the Hickory House Volume 1" and "At the Hickory House Volume 2." By the mid 1960s the venue was one of the last of the jazz clubs left on 52nd street and by the end of the decade closed. As noted on the back of the menu "Life! Life! From ten thirty until scrambled eggs there is always a popular swingy rhythm band to beat out tuneful and catchy syncopations in their own inimitable style."<br /> <br /> <br /> 10.75 x 14.25 inches bi-fold. Very Good plus with light soiling rubbing and edgewear overall and a faint horizontal crease. The Hickory House unknown
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[JAZZ ERA PHOTO & POSTCARD TRAVEL ALBUM ARCHIVE/WOMEN]. DANA, Samuel Trask & DANA (CARROLL), Harriet Merrill
Six photograph and postcard scrapbook albums recording the voyages and travels of Samuel Trask Dana with his family to attend the General Assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture and the World’s Forestry Congress.
Amherst MA: Samuel T. Dana & Harriet Dana 1926. Six volumes. 4to. 32; 38; 38; 27; 37; 34 leaves; an additional 16 leaves in manuscript in 3 of the albums written by Harriet Dana at age 10. Approx. 300 real photos of Harriet & George Ruth Dana Samuel Dana many street scenes numerous large studio photos tipped-in of sights in Rome Florence Dresden and other areas. Over 450 black & white tipped-in photo postcards many of them real photo postcards a few gold-tone photo postcards; approx. 75 tipped-in colour postcards; two letters of introduction from Yale University Secretary Robert Maynard Hutchins letter of introduction from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture William Marion Jardine who served under Presidents Coolidge and Hoover; printed invitations to the Congress World Forestry Congress credentials numerous programs to operas and theaters in European cities; menus to the S.S. President Harding; Menus for the S/Y Meteor; menus for the conferences; Children’s Tea Menu for the S.S. President Harding; Passenger lists for the United States Lines President Harding; tourist maps pictorial maps manuscript annotations and more. Uniformly bound in pebbled black cloth two-ring binders 1 of them with SS President Harding ribbon stretched around the binding wear & rubbing to the corners bumping to the spines a couple of the binders with hinges starting many of the leaves with wear and some loose at the gutter margin still a remarkable archive. An incredible Jazz Age archive of travel photos ephemera and documents assembled by Samuel T. Dana and his daughter Harriet during the family’s five month trip through Europe for the First World Forestry Congress held in Rome Italy. The albums are filled with documentation and souvenirs from their grand tour through Europe. Included are photos of the participants in the World Forestry conference two of them are of Dana’s subcommittee at the meeting many of the registration credentials letters of introduction as well as invitations to meetings and parties associated with the conference. The Dana family had an audience with the Pope in Rome saw Benito Mussolini visited the major sights of Venice with pictures of young George Dana feeding the pigeons in the Plaza in front of St. Mark’s Cathedral. They attended Verdi’s opera La Traviata featuring the soprano Violetta Valery. From there they traveled through France Switzerland Austria Czechoslovakia Germany Denmark Norway Sweden and Finland. They have included their brochures for visiting assorted museums folk festivals operas in Munich historical sights in Prague the beautiful city of Dresden tramped through all parts of Paris voyaged on the S/Y Meteor of the Norwegian Steamship Lines through Sweden Finland and Norway with the special treat of including their menus for breakfasts lunches dinners and children’s teas great photo of the children for the Captain’s tea on the SS President Harding. The photographs feature street scenes in assorted places views from the top of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower many of the people they met in their travels and more. Dana met with foresters and visited timber stands throughout northern Europe and Scandinavia.Of particular interest are the many leaves hand-written by the 10-year old Harriet Dana 1916-2011 describing the places they visited her impressions of the sights the many experiences she had as well as very charming notes from family friends tipped-in which were to be opened during their travels. She has annotated many of the postcards and photos. These albums and her impressions offer an invaluable cultural insight into travel during the Jazz Age for the well-to-do. In addition there are several leaves in manuscript written in both pencil and pen of the prices and types of souvenirs purchased throughout Europe including dolls pennants mosaics many lead soldiers a toy loom toy boat decks of cards clothing china and many different types of jewelry. Harriet Merrill Dana Carroll would later attend Swarthmore college graduate from Yale Nursing School in 1941 and eventually retire in Bethesda Maryland in 1986. Samuel Trask Dana 1883-1978 was a world renowned forestry expert who graduated from Yale in 1907 entered the U.S. Forest Service where he began groundbreaking studies in the culture of renewable white pine and paper birch forests. He established several forest experimental stations intended to further research and promote the economic value of forests. He served in World War I and from 1923 to 1927 was the director of the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station in Amherst Massachusetts where his most significant achievement was helping to organize the First World Forestry Conference. This Congress was significant because he succeeded in helping to establish an international body to compile and track forestry resources all over the world. Subsequently he became the first dean of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources which pioneered many trends in modern forestry. He served as chairman of the U.S. Timber Conservation Board President of the Society of American Foresters was appointed in 1958 by President Eisenhower to serve on the National Outdoor Recreation Review Commission and also studied proposals to preserve California’s redwood forests. Samuel T. Dana & Harriet Dana, hardcover
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[JAZZ HISTORY - PENNSYLVANIA] TASSIA, Sam (et al)
Valencia - York Pa. - 10th Anniversary 1929-1939
York Pennsylvania: The Valencia Ballroom 1939. Quarto. Spiral-bound leatherette boards hardcover; 94pp; illus. Trivial soil to covers with front board very slightly bowed at fore edge; internally fresh clean and unmarked; Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Promotional album for the storied Valencia Ballroom a popular musical venue during the Swing Band era. Strategically located on a route that connected New York Philadelphia and Baltimore the Valencia caught traveling orchestras on their way north or south thus bringing an impressive assortment of acts to the unlikely industrial city of York PA. Richly illustrated with photographs of the venue of the Tassia family owners and managers of the Valencia architectural views and dozens of portraits of the popular performers who played there including Eddie Duchin Kay Kyser Benny Goodman Sammy Kaye Guy Lombardo Bunny Berrigan the Dorseys and a host of others. Though the Valencia clearly favored white orchestras a few noteworthy African-American performers appeared there regularly and are pictured including Jimmy Lunceford Cab Calloway Duke Ellington and Claude Hopkins. A lavishly-produced souvenir and highly uncommon; OCLC notes four locations and we trace no other copies in the trade. The Valencia Ballroom unknown
Référence libraire : 61627
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[JAZZ MAYNARD] - RAULE, ROGER -
JAZZ MAYNARD: t1 home sweet homa.
S.l., Dargaud, 2007 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Troisième édition : bas du dos légèrement abimer.
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[JAZZ NOVELS] WILLIS, George
Little Boy Blues
New York: E.P. Dutton 1947. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Black cloth boards stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 223pp. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Endpapers mildly darkened else a tight Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket is unclipped lightly worn at spine ends with a small closed tear at upper margin of front panel; Very Good. Third volume of Willis's loosely-connected postwar trilogy about jazz musicians in the Midwest. Preceded by Tangleweed 1943 and The Wild Faun 1945. HANNA 3829. E.P. Dutton unknown
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[JAZZ POETRY]. Feinstein, Sascha
A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry.
Westport & London: Greenwood Press 1998. First edition. 230 pp w/indexes. Some light spotting along top edge else near fine in full green cloth with gold stamping to spine and cover. No dust jacket as issued. Anthologies works by individual authors and a cross reference guide matching jazz musician/composer to poet. Westport & London: Greenwood Press hardcover
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[JAZZ à JUAN 1974].-
La Maison du Tourisme d'Antibes - Juan-les-Pins, maecenas Perrier et Pschitt présentent le FESTIVAL MONDIAL du JAZZ, 23 au 29 juillet 1974, Pinède de Juan les Pins, Palais des Congrès.
Juan-les-Pins, 1974, in 4° broché, 68 pages non chiffrées ; nombreuses illustrations ; publicités.
Référence libraire : 61935
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