‎Jazz‎

‎[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

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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

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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 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

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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]. 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

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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 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 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

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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 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]‎

‎May Day: All the Blues You Can Use Original flyer for a performance at Farley's San Francisco circa early 1990s‎

‎San Francisco: Farley's 1990. Vintage flyer for a concert at Farley's Cafe of San Francisco featuring Big Bones and the Bone-a-fide Blues Band circa early 1990s.<br /> <br /> Located in Potrero Hill Farley's Cafe now Farley's Coffeehouse has been a popular cafe since 1989 frequently hosting live music.<br /> <br /> 8.5 x 11 inches with center star hand colored with marker. Two small pin holes right of center else Near Fine. Farley's unknown‎

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‎[JAZZ] - HOT-REVUE‎

‎Revue mensuelle de Jazz-Hot. N¡ 1 (décembre 1945) - 12 (1946).‎

‎12 fascicules relié en 1 volumes In-4, environ 440 pages au total. Les 12 premiers numéros de cette célèbre revue de Jazz. La revue en comptera 17 en tout et s'arretera en 1947. Contributions : Ch. Delaunay, H. Panassié, A. Hodeir, K. Mohr, A. Garsin, M. Gautier, B. Vian, L. Choquart, etc... Illustré de nombreuses photographies, dessins et documents divers. En excellente condition.‎

‎[Jazz]; Colored Night Hawks; Sevalen's Hall‎

‎Promotional Card April Fool's Comedy Dance‎

‎Lyons NY: Sevalen's Hall 1933. Very Good . Lyons NY: Sevalen's Hall 1933. Broadsheet palm card; printed promotional card 12.8x7.5cm for an "April Fool's Comedy Dance" in the New York Hamlet featuring the Colored Night Hawk's sic band; advertisements for Lyons Soda Spa to verso. Light rubbing and a couple smudges; Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> Drummer Boots Ward's band was variously called the Colored Night Hawks or simply the Night Hawks and sprang from its Worcester Massachusetts antecedent "Mamie Moffett and Her Five Jazz Hounds" which was headed by Worcester's "First Lady of Jazz." A lovely record of small town Depression-era good times when tickets went for 25 cents to the ladies and 35 to the men. . Sevalen's Hall unknown‎

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‎[L'AMATEURDE JAZZ] - KANO -‎

‎L'amateur de jazz.‎

‎Paris, Eds, 1984 ; in-4, 44 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Eo dédicacée et numéroté; page onduler.‎

‎Eo dédicacée et numéroté; page onduler.‎

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‎[Louis ARMSTRONG] - SIRO‎

‎Portrait caricature représentant : Louis ARMSTRONG - trompettiste de jazz-‎

‎Dessin original à l'encre de chine sur calque signé - format 13,5 x 10,5 -‎

‎SIRO est le pseudonyme de Pierre ROLLOT - journaliste et caricaturiste (L'Equipe, l'Aurore, le Figaro) - (1914-2005) -‎

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‎[Musique/Jazz] QUERAUD (Michel.B)‎

‎10e Jazz Band Ball‎

‎Impression en offset. 1973. Dim: 61,5 x 40 cm.‎

‎Réalisée pour la "Grande nuit du Jazz Nouvelle Orléans" à la Mutualité en novembre 1973.‎

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‎[MUSIQUE, JAZZ] - GERBER (Alain) -‎

‎Blues.‎

‎Paris, Fayard Roman, 2009 ; in-8, 649 pp., br. Très bon état - broché.‎

‎Très bon état - broché.‎

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‎[MUSIQUE, JAZZ] - MORGAN (ALU) -‎

‎COUNT BASIE.‎

‎Paris, Garancière Jazz, 1986 ; in-8, 127 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Bon état - traduit de l'anglais par Paul Couturiau.‎

‎Bon état - traduit de l'anglais par Paul Couturiau.‎

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‎[MUSIQUE] - FRANCIS (André)‎

‎Jazz.‎

‎Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1977 ; in-12 (121 x 178 mm), 288 pp., broché. Collection «Solfèges», N° 9, dirigée par F.-R. Bastide. 7ème édition.‎

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‎[MUSIQUE, JAZZ] - GELLY (Dave) -‎

‎LESTER YOUNG.‎

‎Paris, Garancière Jazz, 1986 ; in-8, 123 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Bon état - traduit de l'anglais par Corine Derblum.‎

‎Bon état - traduit de l'anglais par Corine Derblum.‎

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‎[MUSIQUE] - BIRO (Adam)‎

‎Précis de musique charnelle.‎

‎Genève, Éditions Zoé, 1992 ; in-8, 142 pp., broché. Bon état.‎

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‎[Music – Early Jazz – Ragtime] Pinkard, Maceo‎

‎The Blue Melody. Society’s Latest Syncopated Walk. As First Played by Sophie Tucker’s Five Kings of Syncopation‎

‎Omaha Nebraska: Maceo Pinkard Music Publisher 1917. Folio sheet music 11 x 14 inches 3 pp. plus cover. Light edge wear and small creases; a couple tiny tears to margins very good with strong color and excellent internal condition. An early jazz-era composition by the important African American songwriter Maceo Pinkard 1897–1962 issued from his short-lived Omaha publishing venture during the first years of the national “jass band†craze. The cover advertises the piece as a “1917 ‘Jass Band’ Craze!†and features a photograph of Sophie Tucker’s Five Kings of Syncopation the ensemble associated with the immensely popular vaudeville star Sophie Tucker during the years immediately preceding American entry into the First World War.<br /> <br /> Pinkard born in Blue Springs Nebraska emerged as one of the most important Black popular songwriters of the early twentieth century. As a teenager he worked in Nebraska theaters and dance orchestras before forming a publishing firm in Omaha while still barely twenty years old. His early Midwestern publications—including pieces such as “The Blue Melodyâ€â€”show him operating within the ragtime and syncopated dance music tradition that was evolving into early jazz. Within a few years Pinkard relocated to Chicago and New York where he became a major Tin Pan Alley figure later composing standards such as “Sweet Georgia Brown†1925. The piece is respectfully dedicated to “Sophie Tucker’s 5 Kings of Syncopation†reflecting Tucker’s role as one of the most influential vaudeville singers of the 1910s. The interior advertisement reproduces a sample chorus of Pinkard’s hit “I’m a Real Kind Mama†another early jazz-age success associated with Tucker’s repertoire. Maceo Pinkard Music Publisher unknown‎

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‎[Music – Jazz – Sheet Music] Smith, Willie "The Lion"‎

‎Collection of Ten Pieces of Original Sheet Music by Stride Piano Great Willie “The Lion†Smith 1937-1949‎

‎New York City: Edwards Music Co. and others 1949. Ten pieces of sheet music see full inventory below. Overall Near Fine. A representative group of sheet music publications by Willie “The Lion†Smith one of the defining architects of Harlem stride piano and a central transitional figure between ragtime-era keyboard traditions and modern jazz performance. Active in New York during the formative decades of twentieth-century jazz Smith developed a powerful pianistic approach combining rhythmic authority harmonic sophistication and improvisational independence becoming widely regarded as a “musician’s musician†and an influential mentor to figures including Duke Ellington.1<br /> <br /> Emerging from the uptown New York scene shaped by pianists such as James P. Johnson and Luckey Roberts Smith helped define the stride style that grew from ragtime into a more expansive jazz idiom frequently performing at Harlem rent parties and participating in competitive “cutting contests†that tested virtuosity and improvisational skill. Smith also published sheet music producing piano solos novelty songs and popular compositions. Offered here are ten pieces reflecting the breadth of his printed output including collaborative songs and published folios issued by firms such as Leo Feist Edwards Music Co. Mills Music and Joe Davis. In his 1964 memoir Smith recalled hearing in everyday life “another weird but musical sound… that I can still hear in my head.â€2<br /> <br /> Uncommon on the market we find only four first edition copies of Smith sheets available at the time of writing with most of these not available. <br /> <br /> Titles include:<br /> <br /> “Between Sharps and Flats An Unusual Piano Soloâ€. Willie Lion Smith. New York: Edwards Music Co New York 1949. 5 pp. Fine condition. <br /> <br /> “Curfew Time in Harlem Novelty Songâ€. Willie The Lion Smith and Neil Laurence. New York: Joe Davis Inc New York 1938. 3 pp. Near fine with minimal wear. <br /> <br /> “Echo of Springâ€. Willie The Lion Smith. New York: Leo Feist Inc New York 1946. 6 pp. Fine condition. <br /> <br /> “How Could You Put Me Down†Willie The Lion Smith with James P. Johnson and Mitchell Parish. New York: Mills Music Inc 1945. 5 pp. Fine condition. <br /> <br /> “Karnival on the Keys A Modern Piano Fantasyâ€. Willie Lion Smith. New York: Edwards Music Co New York 1945. 5 pp. Fine condition. <br /> <br /> “Let’s Go Joeâ€. Cab Calloway Willie Lion Smith and Jack Palmer. New York: Rytvoc Inc 1942. 3 pp. Fine condition. <br /> <br /> “Let’s Mop It Mop! Mop!â€. Jack Edwards Fred Norman and Willie Lion Smith. New York: Edwards Music Co 1942. 3 pp. Fine condition. <br /> <br /> “Modern Piano Solos†folio. Willie The Lion Smith. New York: Leo Feist Inc 1939. 26 pp. Very good plus with a small chip to front wrap. <br /> <br /> “Rippling Watersâ€. Willie The Lion Smith. New York: Leo Feist Inc New York 1939. 5 pp. Fine condition. <br /> <br /> “Sneak Away Piano Soloâ€. Willie The Lion Smith. New York: Mills Music Inc 1937. 5 pp. Fine condition.<br /> <br /> 1 “Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith: Stride Piano Master†NPR’s ‘Jazz Profiles’ June 11 2008 https://www.npr.org/2008/06/11/91365108/willie-the-lion-smith-stride-piano-master.<br /> 2 Willie Smith Music on My Mind: The Memoirs of an American Pianist Doubleday: 1964. Edwards Music Co. and others unknown‎

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‎[Music – Jazz Age] Akst, Harry; Lewis, Sam; Young, Joe; Barbelle, Alfred Willard [Baker, Josephine, et al] [illustrator]‎

‎Dinah. Featured Song Success in the New Plantation Revue Society’s Rendezvous of N.Y.‎

‎New York City: Henry Waterson Inc 1925. Folio illustrated wraps. 5 pp. Fine condition. A striking Jazz Age sheet music issue and likely first edition for “Dinah†the widely popular song composed by Harry Akst with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young here promoted as a “Featured Song Success†from The New Plantation Society’s Rendezvous of N.Y. a Harlem revue-style theatrical production. The revue was advertised as an all-Black production reopening the Plantation Cabaret at 50th Street and Broadway featuring prominent performers including blues singer Ethel Waters alongside Will Vodery’s Parisian Orchestra Josephine Baker Bessie Allison Leonard Harper Jimmy Ferguson and the Plantation beauty chorus.1 “Dinah†would go on to become one of the most enduring standards of the decade. Multiple versions were published in 1925 this one in June and though we are not able to establish definitive priority we guess that this is the first edition. Very scarce with three copies found institutionally at the Francis G. Spencer collection at Baylor University BYU and the British Library reference collection. <br /> <br /> 1 “Ethel Waters Is Featured In New Plantation Revue†The New York Age June 20 1925 6. Henry Waterson, Inc unknown‎

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