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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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
1994ref. 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
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 books
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 books
1993ref. 263756Port Chester: Medi-Media Pub. Inc 1993. Magazine. 116p. including covers 5.25x8.25 inches erotic fiction reviews articles illustrated with b&w cartoons explicit photos and ads for sex toys very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Medi-Media Pub. Inc unknown books
1989ref. 263761Port Chester: Medi-Media Pub. Inc 1989. Magazine. 116p. including covers 5.25x8.25 inches erotic fiction reviews articles illustrated with b&w cartoons explicit photos and ads for sex toys lightly-worn digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Special report: Gay Theatre since Stonewall. Medi-Media Pub. Inc unknown books
2015ref. 264180Lansing KS: Punch Drunk Press 2015. 28p. staplebound zine very good. On depression and the challenges of wanting to help. Punch Drunk Press unknown books
1971ref. 38867NY: 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. ESP Disk unknown books
1981ref. 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
1970ref. 27206Graz: Universal Edition. 1970. Softcover. Wraps very good wilh mild signs of handling with a library stamp in upper right corner of front wrap and with title underlined on front wrap. Ex-lib with those minimal marks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 197 pp . Universal Edition paperback books
2009ref. 20098BB2009. Stg. Jazz Podium Verlag 2009-2018 4° insgesamt ca. 8100 S. mit zahlreichen Farbbbildungen original Hefte zumeist mit Adress-Abo-Aufkleber vorne ansonsten sehr gute saubere Exemplare ohne Anstreichungen ohne Vorbesitzvermerke ohne Eckknicke etc. und auch kein Nikotin- oder Kellergeruch. Dieses wichtige deutsche Jazzmagazin erscheint seit 1952. Hier enthalten: 2009: 1-12 - komplett 2010: 1-12 - komplett 2011: 1-6 und 9-12 2012: 1-12 - komplett 2013: 1-12 - komplett 2014: 1-12 - komplett 2015: 1-12 - komplett 2016: 1-12 - komplett 2017: 1-12 - komplett 2018: 1-4. Manche Hefte enthalten zwei oder drei Nummern so erklärt sich die Differenz zwischen der Anzahl der Heftnummern und der Anzahl der Hefte. Kein Einzelverkauf. Die Sendung wird innerhalb Deutschlands als DHL-Paket zu EUR 15- verschickt. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main Nordend ggü. Musterschule möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main Nordend close to Musterschule is possible. It saves the shipping costs. unknown
1950ref. 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
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1940ref. 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
