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2000ref. 001809Lanham Maryland and London: The Scarecrow Press Inc. 2000. As New condition. Bright clean square tight and unmarked. Pages are fresh and crisp apparently never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. Alphabetically arranged biographies of the people who wrote the popular tunes of the 20th century. Includes the obscure as well as those well-known e.g. Artie Shaw Bix Beiderbecke Sammy Cahn Neil Moret Duke Ellington Benny Goodman Al Jolson Peggy Lee Carmen Lombardo Henri Mancini etc. Illustrated with photographs. Appendices. Index. Glossy laminated boards. From the rear cover: "THE UNSUNG SONGWRITERS is dedicated to a period in the history of American music that author Warren Vache calls the 'Golden Age of Songwriting' and to the men and women who made it great. Contrary to the widely held opinion that most of our hit and standard songs were composed by a handful of top writers - Berlin Gershwin Kern Porter and Rodgers - the fact is that the vast majority of them were written by relatively unknown composers. Additionally while the writers who contributed material to the Broadway stage - and to some extent Hollywood musicals - were able to establish distinguished reputations the many freelance writers who were responsible for some of our best songs remained unrecognized by the general public. In this volume you will find Al Neiberg the author of IT'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN Frank Perkins who wrote EMALINE and STARS FELL ON ALABAMA Maceo Pinkard the mind behind SWEET GEORGIA BROWN and SUGAR Ralph Rainger who is responsible for WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN Harry Woods for TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS J. Fred Coots for YOU GO TO MY HEAD and many more. THE UNSUNG SONGWRITERS brings long overdue recognition to these influential writers and at the same time highlights a neglected but important segment of our American musical heritage.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. As New condition/No jacket as issued. 8vo. xxxi 737pp. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Hardcover
ref. GB000VWGKP6I3N00Earl Davis and the Jazz Foundation of America/Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Earl Davis and the Jazz Foundation of America/Metropolitan Museum of Art paperback
1938ref. 33168Tokyo: 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. 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. 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. 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. No copies of this work located in OCLC as of June 2025. References: "How Japan Came To Love Jazz" online interview with historian E. Taylor Atkins author of "Blue Nippon" "Jazz Messenger" by Haruki Murakami available online. Symphony Publishing Company unknown
1933ref. 45554Lyons 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. 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
2000ref. 260502047Ghb Records 2000-08-25. audioCD. Used: Very Good. 4x5x0. Very good condition. From a private collection. Comes from non smoking home. Ghb Records unknown
2008ref. TK231990Tasneem Gallery Barcelona 2008. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Extra Large 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers 55pp on thick art paper colour plates etc. Dual text in Spanish and English __CONDITION : NEW unread and unmarked copy very slight bump to bottom edge of spine. . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Tasneem Gallery Barcelona paperback
1956ref. H32985New York: Birdland Jazz Club 1956. First Printing. Wraps. Very good. 12 x 9 inches pictorial wraps very good light wear and toning. 24 pp. with photos biographies of the main acts reprints of articles some ads. Very rare OCLC locates NO copies of this in any institution. The jazz club is still extant but in a different location: at the time this was at 1678 Broadway owned by Morris and Irving Levy and Oscar Goodstein. In 1965 the club moved because of rent increases. Although the club was named in honor of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker he rarely played there. It was considered the premier NYC jazz club of its time. This booklet gives information on the performers they had lined up for 1956: Sarah Vaughan Count Basie Al Hibbler Lester Young Johnny Smith Bud Powell Joe Williams plus the East/West Jazz Septet. Birdland Jazz Club unknown
1974ref. 18115NY: Arlington House 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Volume 1 Music Year by Year 1900-1950. Volumes 2 & 3: Biographies. Volume 4. Indexes & Appendices. Books are fine in blue cloth boards. Fine dust jackets all have the price for the set $75 on the front flaps. A 1/2" tear at top of jacket spine of volume 1. Very heavy set: no priority or international shipping. Arlington House hardcover
1925ref. List3672New 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. 1 “Ethel Waters Is Featured In New Plantation Revue” The New York Age June 20 1925 6. Henry Waterson, Inc unknown
ref. 1499099207.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1964ref. 19336N Y: Scepter Records. Very Good Plus Vinyl Record/Very Good Record Sleeve. 1964. 33 1/3 RPM LP VINYL RECORD. VERY RARE VINTAGE VINYL JAZZ RECORD from our Audio Archives. NEW YORK JAZZ SEXTET: GROUP THERAPY also known as RECORDED TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME. Released by Scepter Records 254 West 54th Street New York City in 1964. Original monaraul LP 526 Red label with Silver lettering also includes original Scepter Inner sleeve. Players include: ART FARMER - Flugelhorn / JAMES MOODY - Tenor Sax and Flute / TOM McINTOSH - Trombone / TOMMY FLANAGAN - Piano / RICHARD DAVIS - Bass / ALBERT Tudie HEATH - Drums. Side One includes: BOTTOM ON TOP / SUPPLICATION / ANOTHER LOOK. Side Two: GIANT STEPS / DIM AFTER DAY / INDIAN SUMMER / JOY SHOUT. A Very Good Plus Vinyl Record looks good and sounds great in a Very Good Record Sleeve featuring a colorful modern art "Jazz" cover collage clean and bright on front; rear of sleeve shows some aging/discoloring but no marks Features notes by Stan Green plus notes on the Personnel. Rare / Audio Archives. . Scepter Records unknown
1917ref. List3667Omaha 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. 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 Melody”—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
1924ref. List3678New York City: Clarence Williams 1924. Folio measuring 12 x 9 inches 5 pp. With an attractive period style illustration by Sydney Leff with his printed signature in the lower right corner. Fine condition. A very scarce surviving example of the sheet music for "Cakewalking Babies from Home" a cornerstone early jazz-blues composition issued through Clarence Williams’s publishing enterprise at the moment when New Orleans–derived ensemble practice was reshaping American popular music. Written by Williams with Chris Smith and Henry Troy the piece bridges late ragtime syncopation and emerging small-group jazz textures. Though widely disseminated through performance and recording it appears to have circulated only sparingly as domestic sheet music. The song achieved lasting fame through the celebrated 1924 New York recording sessions by the Clarence Williams Blue Five Okeh 8256 featuring Eva Taylor vocal Louis Armstrong cornet Sidney Bechet soprano saxophone Clarence Williams piano and Buddy Christian banjo; a landmark early small-ensemble performance often cited for its dynamic Armstrong–Bechet interplay and its role in defining early jazz ensemble language.12 Circulating widely among classic blues singers vaudeville performers and musicians within Williams’s publishing network and the TOBA circuit the composition reflects the porous boundary between theatrical blues dance music and emerging jazz repertory in mid-1920s Harlem and Chicago. As noted in Smithsonian jazz educational materials “the roots of jazz are heard clearly… in ‘Cake Walking Babies from Home’”.3 Despite its well-documented performance and recording history institutional holdings of the sheet music itself appear extremely limited. We locate a single copy at the Stanley King Jazz Collection at Oberlin with none presently recorded in OCLC. 1 Brian Rust Jazz records 1897–1942 Arlington House Publishers 1978. 2 Tom Lord Jazz Discography Lord Music Reference Inc. 1992. 3 “Act 3. New York Introduction: 1924–1925” Smithsonian Louis Armstrong Education Kit https://amhistory.si.edu/jazz/education/Act3.pdf. Clarence Williams unknown
1950ref. List2914Unknown location 1950. 7 x 11 inch poster. Some small marginal tears overall excellent. A small poster for Pearl Bailey with the Louie Bellson Quartet presented by the United Service Organizations and Department of Defense. Bailey 1918–1990 was a singer dancer and actress; she started her career performing at Black nightclubs on the east coast and later performed in several Broadway hits including an all-Black version of Hello Dolly! Louie Bellson 1924–2009 was Bailey’s husband a composer bandleader and jazz drummer credited with inventing the double bass drum setup. Bailey toured regularly with the USO beginning in 1941 though this poster is likely from later; the DOD was called the Department of War until 1949 and the USO was inactive between 1945 and 1950. unknown
1930ref. List2913Omaha Nebraska: The Metropolitan Press 1930. 14 x 21 ½ inch poster. Worn with marginal damage; very good plus. Nat Towles 1905–1963 was a jazz musician and bandleader from New Orleans. His band first called Nat Towles’ Creole Harmony Kings was a renowned territory band in Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Nebraska. They would later have residences in Omaha and Chicago and tour New York City. Offered here is a poster for the Nat Towles Orchestra at the Trianon Ballroom in Croweburg Kansas likely from the 1930s given the location and band name. Croweburg was a coal mining town—and a sundown town until 1912.1 1 “A.P.Roundtree Esq.” The Kansas Baptist Herald May 20 1912 1. The Metropolitan Press unknown
1929ref. List2808Sedalia Missouri 1929. 11 x 18 inches heavy cardstock. Manuscript note verso reads “Flor Alpino Vals / Vanderbeck”. 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
1910ref. List2810San Francisco California 1910. Single photograph approximately 6 ½ x 9 inches manuscript verso reading “SF Barbary Coast 500 Block of Pacific ”THE SO DIFFERENT” now 550 Pacific Ave 1911”. 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—”Terrific Street”—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
1960ref. CAT206New York et al. 1960. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints with Bradley’s estate marks to versos. Excellent. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at the Boston Armory in 1956. In 1958 he moved to New York from Cape Cod and began dating Jeann Failows a member of Louis Armstrong’s inner circle. Through Failows Bradley gained access to Armstrong eventually becoming very close friends with the trumpeter and his inner circle. Bradley already had amassed a large collection of jazz material much related to Armstrong and he augmented his own collection by photographing Armstrong and his Jazz circle for the next decade. The bulk of Bradley’s collection now resides at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. This collection is of seven photographs of jazz musicians from Bradley’s estate showing a wonderful window into the tail end of the Classic Jazz era. Photographs as follows: Willie Cook. 5 x 7 inches. A portrait of Cook seated. Excellent condition. Count Basie and Duke Ellington. 5 x 7 inches. The two jazz greats are seated at their respective pianos during rehearsal. Excellent condition. Duke Ellington’s Empty Bandstand. 8 x 10 inches. The horns chairs and sheet music are laid out. Very good condition with some toning to margins and a faint scratch at outer edge of image. Duke Ellington Conducting his Band. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo Theatre New York c. 1959. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent Condition. Count Basie Seated at a Table Smoking a Cigar. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. Pee Wee russell Painting at his New York Apartment c. 1966. Good condition marginal tear affecting ½ inch of image. Overall a nice group and an example of a photographer whose work is not often available on the market. unknown
1980ref. KOS02201844Jazz people 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS02201844 Jazz people paperback
1980ref. KOS02300586TBD 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS02300586 TBD paperback
1964ref. 1513341964. unbound. Signatures by Percy Humphrey Jim Robinson Albert Burbank James "Sing" Miller Louis Barbario and Narvin Kimball who appended his instrument banjo to his signature decorate the verso of the album sleeve corners slightly bumped small stain on verso does not obscure signatures. 12 1/2" x 12 1/2". No place no date. Circa 1964. Fine condition. unknown
ref. 53424Signed: "To James with warm good wishes Peggy Lee".Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer songwriter composer and actress in a career spanning six decades Framed behind glass. Paet of the lower image marred by adhesion to the glass. American jazz and popular music singer songwriter composer and actress whose career spanned over six decades. She was the recipient of three Grammy Awards an Academy Award nomination as well as being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. unknown
2004ref. XO-90UM-QT69Bel Air Recordings 2004-06-01. Audio CD. Good. 5x4x0. CD in case with original art work. See our photos. Disc has some light surface scratches tested plays nicely. Case has moderate wear. Shipped promptly with Tracking and Signature Confirmation. A & E Bel Air Recordings unknown
ref. 1648040853.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1983ref. 499742Bangor: The Bangor Historical Society 1983. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Slim octavo. 8pp. Stapled wrappers. Illustrated including two portraits of King. Fine. Includes “A Novelist’s Perspective on Bangor” by King as well as a brief biography. OCLC locates six copies. N.B. There was also an edition issued by the same publisher with 40 pages of text including advertisements for distribution at the March 1983 benefit for the Bangor Historical Society. The Bangor Historical Society unknown
