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1960rif. 45557Harrisburg PA: Penn-World Attractions 1960. Very Good . Harrisburg PA: Penn-World Attractions 1960. Broadside flyer 28x21.6cm printed on peach stock advertising a Louis Armstrong concert at The Forum in Harrisburg Pennsylvania May 19 1960. Minor wear and creasing to edges; Very Good or better. Promotion from a late career concert for Armstrong which took place a year after he suffered a heart attack while touring in Italy. Features Armstrong's bandmates Danny Barcelona "Peanuts" Hucko and Velma Middleton. Not separately cataloged in OCLC. Penn-World Attractions unknown books
1990rif. 159578San 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. Located in Potrero Hill Farley's Cafe now Farley's Coffeehouse has been a popular cafe since 1989 frequently hosting live music. 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 books
1938rif. 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
1933rif. 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
1925rif. 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
1917rif. 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
1924rif. 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
1950rif. 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
1930rif. 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
1929rif. 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
1910rif. 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
1960rif. 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
1964rif. 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
1994rif. 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
rif. 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
1983rif. 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
1993rif. 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
1989rif. 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
2015rif. 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
1971rif. 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
1981rif. 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
1970rif. 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
2014rif. 90409New York: The Caliban Press 2014. First Limited Edition. Small Quarto. 27cm. Limited to 125 copies. Dark green cloth spine with paper "5 Spot" label over limp grey die-cut card wraps. 10pp with additional internal mechanical elements. A fine bright copy. An artistic reworking of a 1964 "Down Beat Magazine" article by Williams describing the experience of seeing the legendary Thelonius Monk playing at NYC's legendary 5 Spot jazz cafe on 4th and Bowery with a spectacular centrepiece of die cut card by Berard based of a 1958 photo of Monk and his quartet playing. Signed out of sequence by McMurray to limitation page with the accompanying Caliban Press prospectus sheet. The Caliban Press unknown
rif. 2J7278Verschiedene Verlage und Orte 1971-1979. Ohne Laufzeitangaben in Original-Hüllen quart teils etwas fleckig und berieben. - Enthalten: La storia del Jazz. Clarence Williams Orchestra / La storia del Jazz. Great Jazz Trumpets 1924-1937. Bix Beiderbecke Bunny Berigan Jimmy Mc Partland / Chicago South Side Jazz Vol. 1 und 2. La storia del Jazz / History if Jazz. Jazz Panorama of the 20's / Muggsy Spanier featuring Miff Mole Lou McGarity Pee Wee Russell u.a. / Jelly Roll Morton Volume 2 / Down by the riverside. The Original All-Star Dixiecompany / Archive of Jazz Volume 17: Kings of classics Jazz. Georges Lewis Kid Ory / Archive of Jazz Volume 19: New Orleans rhythm kings. Clarinet Marmalade London Blues Marguerite / Essie Condon's World of Jazz. Doppelalbum - unknown
rif. 1i7571G & L Rauch Schallplatten-Vertrieb Kassel um 1958 - 1970. Ca. 220 S. mit den original Schallplatten-Cover Leinenalbum mit goldgeprägtem Titel "Jazz" und Impressum quart OHNE die Schallplatten. - darunter: Greenwich Village Jazz at the Club Bohemia von Randy Weston und Cecil Payne/ Chet Baker in Milan/ Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings/ Bombastica! The Werner-Rosengren Swedish Jazz Quartet/ Guitar Groove Rene Thomas Quintet/ Out of this world Walter Benton Quintet with Wynton Kelly Paul Chambers Freddy Hubbard/ Tough Tenors the Johnny Griffin and Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quintet/ Art Pepper Gettin together! with an all-star rhyrhm secrion Wynton Kelly Paul Chambers & Jimmie Cobb plus Conte Candoli/ Wes Montgomery Movin Along with James Clay Victor Feldman Sam Jones Louis Hayes uvm. / größtenteils mit handschriftlichen Informationen über die Songs auf der Rückseite des jeweiligen Covers - unknown
