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1995Best.-Nr. 20230Germany: Nieswand Verlag 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. Unpaginated volume of large black and white photographs taken from the world of jazz. Text in English by Milt Hinton and Ole Brask. A near fine copy in cloth backed photo-illustrated boards. Issued without dustwrapper. Nieswand Verlag hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 53559NY: Jazz at Lincoln Center 1994. 8vo pp. 15. Paper wraps. Illustrated with photographs. Schedule of events and short articles about Armstrong. A nice copy. A program for an event at Lincoln Center December 14-19 1994. Jazz at Lincoln Center unknown books
Best.-Nr. 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 books
Best.-Nr. 18304Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A trio of pointillist drawings by the late Vancouver-based saxophonist Ross Taggart who was also a talented artist depicting three of his Jazz heroes. All in black ink on heavyweight drawing paper. Drawing of Ellington signed "Ross Taggart" in lower-right corner approximately 10.75 x 7.75 inches 27.5 x 20 cm. Drawing of Webster unsigned approximately 11.5 x 8 inches 29.5 x 20.5 cm. Drawing of Young signed and labelled in pencil on verso approximately 8.5 x 11inches 21.5 x 28 cm. All very fine. Ross Taggart was a saxophonist and pianist well-known within the Vancouver Jazz community. He passed away from cancer in 2013 at the age of 45. unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. WRCLIT83650New York: Dial Press 1961. Narrow quarto. Loose sheets punched at top bolt bound into printed boards. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first edition. A few soft creases in upper board otherwise fine. Very scarce format. Dial Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 12689Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An extraordinary collection of five Japanese pressed LPs each signed by the primary artist while on tour in Japan 1973-78 and including an especially rare signed copy of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." The support for jazz in Japan has long been immense and also remarkably consistent. Even during a slump in the United States in the 70's that threatened to put many American jazz labels and musicians out of business American jazz artists flocked to Japan to perform with many releasing "Live in Japan" albums including Miles Davis Bill Evans and Sarah Vaughan. ''Japan almost singlehandedly kept the jazz record business going during the late 1970's'' said a producer with Blue Note Records Michael Cuscuna. ''Without the Japanese market a lot of independent jazz labels probably would have folded or at least stopped releasing new material.'' NY Times "In Japan Jazz Resurges As a National Passion" 1/7/88 Each album includes the original obi strip spine card the piece of paper wrapped around the spine of Japanese LPs the term obi designating the sash around a kimono Kimono no obi. Japanese pressings generally feature very high quality vinyl and the present examples are all in fine condition rated individually below. Four of them are dated by the obtainer of the signature or by the artist Simone. BILL EVANS - NEW CONVERSATIONS. Label: WARNER P-10516 Cover : EW/ Record : E Obi stripe: E Obtained 13 September 1978 signed dated and inscribed in black ink on the front cover. SARAH VAUGHAN WITH CLIFFORD BROWN Label: MERCURY BT-1324 Cover : EW/ Record : EDJ Obi stripe: E Obtained 26 April 1975 signed in black ink on the front cover. NINA SIMONE - SPELL ON YOU Label: PHILIPS SFX-7167 Cover : EW/ Record : E-W Obi stripe: E Obtained 1973 signed and dated in black ink on the record label and to an interior page of the album booklet DEXTER GORDON - APARTMENT Label: STEEPLECHASE RJ-7101 Cover : EW/ Record : E Obi stripe: E Obtained 25 September 1975 signed in black ink on the front cover by Dexter Gordon Kenny Drew Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and Albert "Tootsie" Heath MILES DAVIS - KIND OF BLUE Label: CBS/SONY SOPL-155Cover : EW/ Record : EObi stripe: EObtained 1975 signed in silver ink "Miles Davis" on the front cover. The present collection includes several remarkable rarities but the highlight is surely the exceedingly rare signed copy of what is widely regarded to be the greatest jazz album of all time Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." Davis was notoriously prickly and a generally reluctant autograph signer. Though authentic autograph signatures are certainly obtainable we are aware of only one other extant authentically signed copy also sold by Schubertiade of Davis's greatest masterpiece. Of the previous example sold by Schubertiade noted jazz collector and dealer Larry Rafferty noted that in his 40 years of collecting jazz autographs this is "absolutely the only copy I have ever seen -- or heard of" and our research further confirms that no signed copies have appeared at auction or in trade catalogues. The best-selling jazz record of all time is universally acknowledged as a masterpiece revered as much by rock and classical music fans as by jazz lovers. Kind of Blue brought together seven now-legendary musicians in the prime of their careers: tenor saxophonist John Coltrane alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly bassist Paul Chambers drummer Jimmy Cobb and of course trumpeter Miles Davis. To the musicians who recorded it Kind of Blue was just another session when it was released in August 1959. But the disc was quickly recognized by the jazz community as a classic. Jazz musicians were startled by the truly different sound on an album that laid out a clear roadmap for further modal explorations. "So What" became the tune the one that every musician -- not just the practitioners of jazz -- simply had to know. The other tracks also quickly became standards and the individual solos throughout the record continue to inspire musicians to this day. Drummer Jimmy Cobb puts it all down to simplicity -- the reason Kind of Blue has remained so successful for so long. And because of its inherent balance historian Dan Morgenstern adds the album never wears out its welcome. unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. WRCLIT83426Los Angeles: Warner Bros 1955. Twelve full color 8 x 10" glossy color stills with cut-lines. Slightly curled with some minoir darkening to the borders. but very good. A set 1-12 of the color stills used in promoting the film based on Richard L. Breen's screenplay. Directed by and starring Jack Webb as Pete Kelly a Kansas City trumpter and band leader along with Janet Leigh Edmond O'Brien Peggy Lee a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald et al. The soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy. Warner Bros unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 21795London: Sanctuary Publishing 1998. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. 399 pp. Translated into English by Tim Challman. A chronicle of great jazz musicians that passed through the author's home city in Sweden for a generation. A fine hardbound book in fine dustwrapper with small price sticker on the rear cover. CD in pocket at front of book. The pocket envelope has been opened a bit roughly else this is a fine copy. Sanctuary Publishing hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 14105Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Tall octavo. 293 pp. Illustrated by the author. A history of New Orleans sinners and the birth of jazz. Small prior owner name to front endpaper else a near fine hardbound copy in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. Sherbourne Press hardcover books
1981Best.-Nr. WRCLIT79359New York & London: Garland 1981. 300pp. Gilt cloth. First edition. About fine without dust jacket as issued. Garland hardcover books
1952Best.-Nr. WRCLIT77560New York: Rinehart & Co. 1952. Gilt cloth-textured boards. A very good copy in good modestly chipped and creased pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this novel about New Orleans jazz. In additions to his novels Sinclair wrote THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS volume in the American Seaport Series. Rinehart & Co. hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. WRCLIT76284Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1938. Cloth. Mild tanning at edges and endsheet gutters but very good in good rather shelfworn dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book a fictionalization of the meteoric troubled career of Bix Beiderbecke. Michael Curitz directed the 1950 film adaptation based on a screenplay by Carl Foreman and Edmund North and Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall Doris Day Hoagy Carmichael and Juano Hernandez starred. A Houghton Mifflin Fellowship novel. HANNA 179. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1955Best.-Nr. WRCLIT70714Los Angeles: Warner Bros 1955. Eight full color 11 x 14" pictorial lobby cards. Some minor smudging rumpling and tack holes in margins marking crayon notations on verso else a good set. A complete set of the studio lobby cards promoting the film based on Richard L. Breen's screenplay. Directed by and starring Jack Webb as Pete Kelly and Janet Leigh Edmond O'Brien Peggy Lee a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald et al. The soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy. Warner Bros unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. WRCLIT18032New York: Knopf 1964. Narrow quarto. Spiral bound plain wrappers printed labels. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first edition. Two old tape marks on wrappers else fine. HORN 905. Knopf unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. WRCLIT19138Boston: Houghton 1976. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Label removed from lower edge two old staple marks in front wrapper very good. Houghton unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 20416NY: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 019502835X . First edition. Trace foxing to edges else fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 11100Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original black and white poster ca. 1960 with hand gouache coloring by the unidentified artist signed in blue ink by Louis Armstrong probably one of the largest signatures he ever signed and almost certainly the largest signed portrait of the great Satchmo in existence! Apparently obtained at the Morris Civic Theatre in South Bend IN in 1963. In a large recent wood frame under UV-plexiglass. Some creases to the poster but really in great shape overall. About 36 x 30 inches without the frame! The artwork is very likely the work of celebrated jazz illustrator David Stone Martin. His work graced many of the Verve Mercury Clef etc. covers of the 1950s and the present example though apparently not from a published album is highly reminiscent of those Martin designed for Lionel Hampton Billie Holiday Count Basie. unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 23164New York: Commodore Music Shop 1940. First American edition. Cloth. Very Good. Small clothbound 8vo. First American edition reprinting the 1938 French Edition. 382 numbered pages plus dense index at rear of volume. Foreword by Walter E. Schaap. Hot Discography was the first systematic attempt to list all hot records together with their personnels of the recording orchestras. Prior owner name / date in pencil to the front endpaper else a very good copy in black cloth binding printed in gilt. Commodore Music Shop hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 12780Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Typed letter signed from the popular American actress and singer to Mr. Edward Sothern Hipp. Bailey thanks Hipp for his positive review of her book The Raw Pearl in the Newark News. Dated September 30 1968 and signed "Pearl." Letter creases with very slight tears and discoloration to the edges; otherwise in fine condition. 8.5 x 11 inches. unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 23-08-22-gw-7809-jmUtah Jazz 1995-01-01. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Light wear. Good copy. Utah Jazz paperback
2000Best.-Nr. 1-0130196177Prentice Hall 2000. Paperback. New. 5th edition. 368 pages. 9.25x7.00x0.62 inches. Prentice Hall paperback
1950Best.-Nr. 190253London: 1950s. Vivid images of jazz greats by one of the "obscure guys" of British jazz photography - from the collection of Charlie Watts From the collection of Rolling Stones drummer and jazz aficionado Charlie Watts: a delightful and absorbing archive of largely unpublished photographs by Jamie Hodgson an unsung hero of British jazz photography capturing both the exuberance and inwardness of the music. Among the jazz greats pictured are Dizzy Gillespie Ella Fitzgerald Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn and Louis Armstrong. Perhaps the stand out photographs here are two superb studio images of Strayhorn one a memorable image showing him observing a goldfish in its bowl used on the cover of David Hajdu's 1996 biography Lush Life but unattributed another a delightful and unforgettable portrait of "Strays" lying on the studio floor cigarette in hand legs crossed wine glass within reach working on a score marked in 12/8 time with a quill pen and ink stand. A sequence of eight images focus on Louis Armstrong and date from 1956 through to 1970: one a particularly exuberant portrait of Pops sharing the limelight with Trummy Young Barrett Deems at the kit. These were nearly all taken in concert the exception being one marked "solo visit. Rehearsing with Norman del Mar conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall for a concert in aid of the Hungarian Releif sic Fund. December 10th 1956". There are two fine shots of Dizzy Gillespie both in tux in his dressing room looking thoughtful and another of his up-tilted horn in its case the tag from his recent visit to France still attached to the handle. There is a witty bleached-out studio shot of Jimmy Rushing leaning into the horn of a gramophone and further images of the great singer one a boisterous backstage portrait of Rushing with Harry Carney and Jimmy Hamilton sitting in Rushing's capacious lap! smiling and laughing gathered on the stairs leading up to the gents' toilets and holding a gamut of reed instruments; plus a terrific image of "Mr. Five by Five" raising a pint behind the bar of a pub recalling Basie's reminiscence that "Me and old Rush. We were some pair. We just wanted to have a good time" Basie p. 37. Other portraits include a petulant Ella Fitzgerald Duke Ellington and individual images of Ellington alumni Paul Gonsalves Johnny Hodges Ray Nance Harry Carney Barrett Deems and Sam Woodyard; a chuckling Oscar Peterson; Lionel Hampton with Humphrey Lyttelton; Bud Freeman; a humorous shot of Eddie Condon sitting at a bar and scowling playfully; a tight close-up of a beaming Lionel Hampton; drummer Gus Johnson accompanying bassist Bob Haggart; and Ray Charles performing at the Capital Radio Jazz Festival in 1982. A full listing is available on request. For Hodgson 1930-2006 jazz was a private passion and these remarkable photographs did not see the light of day until a 2006 exhibition Masters of Jazz: Unseen Portraits held in the foyer of the National Theatre. In 2007 Jazz Improv magazine described him as one of the "obscure guys" of British jazz photography. His Guardian obituary noted that he "became known for his hobby rather than his profession. The man who owned the Kinnerton Street studio in London's Knightsbridge for many years earned his living in fashion and family photography. But it was the recent exhibition of 50 of his pictures in the National Theatre foyer that attracted more attention than anything previously shown by the largely anonymous Hodgson. Few knew of his work within the music world and fewer still knew of these unguarded often intimate images which were Hodgson's personal homage to the stars he observed and worshipped. All were taken during British tours many in the privacy of dressing rooms across London or in Hodgson's studio The Guardian jazz critic John Fordham regards these images as 'wonderful pictures'. 'They catch the mood on the night of jazz on and offstage' he said 'and they are very expressive of the big personalities of a lot of those old guys who started touring here in the 1950s and 60s after there had been a dearth of live US jazz in Britain'. Hodgson was a Londoner who took up photography after completing his national service in 1950. Starting out as a freelance he began by taking whatever commissions came his way - news and features aerial and architectural photography or commercial and children's pictures. A stint with the Mayflower Studios brought him into contact with advertising and various television personalities including Frankie Howerd Harry Secombe the Crazy Gang and the Ted Heath Band. In 1956 he set up his own studio where he did fashion shoots with Tania Mallet Jean Shrimpton and Sandra Paul He caught the change in mood from the snooty static haute couture fashion shoots of the 1950s to the more playful popular looks of swinging London in the 1960s. And at night he sneaked out to shoot his favourite jazz and blues bands playing across the capital". An important and captivating collection of jazz images imbued with the photographer's deep affection for the musicians the spontaneity of the portraits matching that of the music itself. Together 95 black and white photographs 46 measuring 223 x 170 mm; 49 measuring 402 x 305 mm each with identifying caption on verso by the photographer some with studio wet stamps or labels a number signed by Hodgson. Preserved in the photographer's own commercial boxes. Three prints Duke Ellington Billy Sytrayhorn Louis Armstrong framed and glazed by auction house overall measuring 445 x 620 mm. In excellent condition. Count Basie Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie 1987. unknown
1940Best.-Nr. 169491United States: c. 1940-60. A visual record of a rarely seen and poorly documented world - an accidental history An unusually extensive group of these evocative "table photographs" striking records of largely African-American audiences in the glamorous sociable and intentionally inclusive world of mid-century nightclubs. Shot by in-house photographers developed on site and sold for a dollar at the end of the evening these quick souvenirs now amount to a rare visual history of a poorly documented milieu. As Gold notes they "turn the camera round": instead of performers we see the audiences - a critical part of what Jason Moran calls the jazz "ecosystem." The collection offers a nationwide survey of venues from the extravagant to the resolutely down-home. At New York's Café Zanzibar with its spectacular floor shows and "Zanzibeauts" the audience was integrated but largely white prompting Langston Hughes's caustic observation about the seating hierarchy - an impression borne out by the image here. Detroit's Gay Bar Lounge another "black and tan" joint catered to a mostly Black clientele and offered a rougher edge: in 1947 the barkeep famously shot two stick-up artists with the.38s kept beneath the cash register. Equally compelling are the histories of Black enterprise that surface. Oakland's Athens Elks Cocktail Lounge home to Lodge 70 of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World stood at the centre of West Oakland's vibrant musical scene hosting countless jam sessions and serving as the informal checkpoint for touring African-American musicians. In Los Angeles Dootsie Williams's Dooto Music Center founded by the trumpeter-turned-entrepreneur provided one of the city's foremost Black cultural venues praised by the Los Angeles Sentinel as "the most-needed cultural and recreation center in Southern California." The photographers themselves remain surprisingly elusive though a few can be traced. In Columbus George Pierce ran a record shop and studio in Bronzeville and supplied images to the Ohio Sentinel and other regional papers; in Detroit Earl Fowler's Top Hat Photo developed into a significant presence in the Black Press with Fowler later serving as chief of the Los Angeles bureau of Now! magazine. Beyond these contexts the photographs' enduring appeal lies in the human dramas unfolding across their tabletops: the conviviality style and fleeting alliances captured in a moment of collective ease. A scene from Gamby's in Baltimore is emblematic - six convivial hat-tipping men and two young women smiling through a forest of shot glasses presided over by a portrait of Fats Waller. It is warmly enigmatic yet inviting an offhand welcome extended across time. A more detailed description and full listing is available on request. Together 66 black and white gelatin silver print photographs 62 c.127 x 178 mm; 3 approximately 178 x 254 mm around 50 are in their original plain or printed souvenir folders the balance loose. Loose photos and folders with occasional wear and mild damp-staining some annotations verso of prints and to folders prints occasionally stapled into folders overall the group remains about very good. Ronald Auther "The Oakland Larks" The Shadow Ball Express: African American Baseball Renderings and other Facts of Life online; Clora Bryant et al Central Avenue Sounds; Jazz in Los Angeles 1930s-1950s 1998; Jeff Gold Sittin' In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s 2020; Robert Petersen "Before Motown: L.A.'s Black-owned Music Empire" PBS SoCal online. unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 172596Paris: Michel Salou 1960. Superb images of the Messengers live in Paris An outstanding series of "in the moment" images showing one of the great Messengers lineups captured in Paris probably at the Olympia in 1960. The lineup comprises Blakey drums Wayne Shorter tenor sax Lee Morgan trumpet Bobby Timmons piano and Jymie Merrit bass. Blakey 1919-1920 was a master percussionist and the Jazz Messengers which he led for over 30 years was "the most famous academy in jazz" Cook & Morton. Wayne Shorter was relatively new to the band and his playing lent a "dark corrosive edge" to the front line while on ballads his tone became "softly beseeching". Lee Morgan "arguably the defining figure of hard bop" had been with Blakey since 1958. The photographer Michel Salou worked as a music executive producing albums by among others Sun Ra Live in Paris: At the "Gibus" 1973 the Mal Waldron Trio Ursula 1978 and the French pianists George Arvanitas and Rene Urtreger. He also appears in the annals of the Art Ensemble of Chicago as their "first booking agent. who helped them secure concert dates across France and elsewhere in Europe" Steinbeck p. 130. His excellent work as a lensman appears to have gone virtually unnoticed except that the National Portrait Gallery holds a single print of Ray Charles in performance. Eight original carbon print photographs 240 x 180 mm 6 landscape 2 portrait printed on heavy stock paper verso with Salou's identifying note in pencil. In excellent condition. Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings eighth ed. 2006; Paul Steinbeck Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago 2017. unknown
2025Best.-Nr. x-1038312779FriesenPress 2025. Hardcover. New. 330 pages. 6.00x0.88x9.00 inches. FriesenPress hardcover
