Search Results: JAZZ MUSIC from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

[United States]: Art Pepper Foundation, 2014. Softcover. Very good. [xii], 370p. Cover corners lightly worn and edges scraped. Describes her marriage to the renowned jazz saxophonist Art Pepper. B&w photographs. (9"x6")

Alma, Michigan: Rebeats Publications, 2002. Revised Edition. Softcover. Very good. [xxiv], 106p. Cover edges scraped and corners worn. Interviews with jazz drummer, known for his wild style of drumming, who recounts his life and adventures playing with some of the best known jazz musicians and bands of his time. Includes additional reading and selected recordings. 6 leaves of b&w photo plates. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")

New York: WKCR Books, 2005. Soft Cover. Good. [xxviii], 169p. Signed by authors on title page. Front cover corners creased and edges lightly worn. Designed as a souvenir of Columbia University radio station WKCR's Billie Holiday Festival with the main text being a discography, a thorough accounting of every known Holiday recording. Includes a list of The Billy Holiday Circle members and an index of participants and songs. Laid in are 3 - 8-1/2"x10" sheets. One is a letter to Billie Holiday Circle Members from Matt Herman presenting this book and the other two are The Live Spiral, March 2006, Vol. 2, no. 1. This copy #0615. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1995. Softcover. Very good. 250p., 6 leaves of Duke University Press titles. Signed by author on inside front cover and by photographer on title page. On verso of contents page are signatures of jazz musicians: F. Allen Smith, Peewee Claybrook, Jeff Chambers, Omar Clay, and Larry Vuckovich. Includes articles on jazz as a cultural archive, Duke Ellington's place in the national pantheon, jazz and the politics of race, and interviews with Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Joe Wilder, John Hicks, Mary Stallings, Frank Strazzeri, Scott Hamilton, and Dave McKenna. 9 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9"x6")

Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. [xii], 236p. Signed by editor on front endpaper. Jacket and cover corners lightly worn. "Stewart's major contribution to jazz trumpet and cornet was to develop the technique of "half-valving"...to its limit." A member of Duke Ellington's band from 1934 to 1945. 8 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. [xxviii], 442p. 2nd printing. Signed by Clora Bryant on dedication page. Oral histories of Marshal Royal, Lee Young, Fletcher Smith, Coney Woodman, William Woodman, Britt Woodman, Buddy Collette, David Bryant, Cecil "Big Jay" McNeely, Jack Kelson, William Douglass, Melba Liston, Art Farmer, Horace Tapscott, Gerald Wiggins, Gerald Wilson, Clora Bryant, William Green, and Marl Young discussing the music scene on Central Avenue during the 1920s through 1950s in Los Angeles. Includes bibliography. Jacket design by Nola Burger. 12 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

Carmel-by-the-Sea: Cypress, 1986. (1st Edition). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 285p. Signed by author on title page. Back cover scraped. Photographs by Ed Lawless. Includes bibliographical references. B&w photographs. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [xxii], 233p. 1st printing. Cover edges lightly worn, sticker residue on jacket back. Includes selected bibliography. History of the Gennett Studios, pioneers in recording early jazz and folk musicians beginning in 1915. 8 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9-1/4"x6-/4")

[Nijmegen, The Netherlands]: Ear Mind Heart Media, [2021]. Softcover. Very good. [x], 188p. Cover corners lightly worn. Biography of Danish jazz saxophonist and composer. Includes discography and list of sources. (9"x6")

Tunbridge, Kent; New York: Spellmont; Hippocrene Books, 1985. (1st Edition). Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 127p. Jacket has a 1" tear on top back edge and corners worn. Includes select discography. 4 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

Nashville; Austin: Third Man; Revenant, 2014. Pictorial hardcover. Very good/No Jacket. 256p. Cover corners lightly worn. Chronicles the second act of the Wisconsin furniture company that became a "jazz-blues juggernaut," producing recordings of the leaders in delta blues and gospel. [Third Man Records website] One of the extra copies that were printed for the box set. Includes b&w photographs of restored advertisements and images. (13-1/4"x11")