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1964WRCLIT18032New 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
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
1955WRCLIT70714Los 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
195823918Plainview L.I. N.Y.: The Jazz Foundation of America 1958. 16 pages; with information regarding this second concert of the Foundation ".in line with our policy to perpetuate the activity and interest in jazz." the Jazz Foundation of America Band under the direction of Jon LaPorta the Foundation Octet under Rusty Dedrick; Dennis Sandole the guitar soloist; officers of the Foundation were Hal Wildman Al Langstaff Nadine Wildman Lucille Mucci Tony DeLorenzo; with lists of the big band personnel boosters for the event the Program; with advertisements for the supportive businesses that helped promote the event; and a one-page notice for the First Annual Festival of Contemporary Music Hofstra College Hempstead L.I. Saturday May 24th 1958 with the program lineup ticket information; approx. 7" x 9 3/4" size; stapled printed glossy paper wraps; light edge tips wear to covers; in very good condition interesting jazz & Long Island NY musical entertainment ephemeral history. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Jazz Foundation of America Paperback books
1955WRCLIT83426Los 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
199844606Westport & London: Greenwood Press 1998. First edition. 230 pp w/indexes. Some light spotting along top edge else near fine in full green cloth with gold stamping to spine and cover. No dust jacket as issued. Anthologies works by individual authors and a cross reference guide matching jazz musician/composer to poet. Westport & London: Greenwood Press hardcover books
13000Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original press photograph showing the great soul singer posing for photographers after arriving in London for his 1975 British tour. Some spotting and wrinkling; overall in very good condition. 25.3 x 20.3 cm. unknown books
1938WRCLIT76284Boston: 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
1947016506November 1944; November. 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Wraps very good to very good. . November, 1944; November paperback books
1961WRCLIT83650New 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
195823571Cannes: Le Comite Des Fetes De La Ville De Cannes et Le Jazz-Club Francais 1958. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Scarce program for the 8 Au 13 Julillett 1958 Cannes Jazz Festival. Unpaginated stapled magazine format. Text in French. A very good copy with some general light soiling to covers. The festival featured such luminaries as Donald Byrd Don Byas Stephane Grappelly Stan Getz Zoot Simes Dizzie Gillespie and Coleman Hawkins among others. Le Comite Des Fetes De La Ville De Cannes et Le Jazz-Club Francais paperback books
195016320Berkeley: Associated Students of the University of California Berkeley 1950. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Spring 1950 issue of Cal Berkeley's literary magazine. Edited by Dale Joe. This issue featuring numerous writings on jazz by Brubeck Kid Ory Turk Murphy and others plus Patchen Miller and more. A very good copy in stapled printed wrappers. Decidedly uncommon issue. <br/><br/> Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley paperback books
19641513341964. 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.<br/><br/> unknown books
199920067Great Barrington: The Figures 1999. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled pamphlet with cover by Diego Velaquez. An 18 pp poetry chapbook by the great jazz drummer. A near fine example in thin stapled wrappers. This copy INSCRIBED by the author "for Gary / this copy of the initial/ copy/ "sorrier than a blown lip"/ love/ Billy Higgins/ 15 Mar 99" Photograph of the author on the final page of this pamphlet with the following text below "SPACE JAM played directly into the computer on Jan 29 and 30 1999 then xeroxed at Kwik Print Great Barrington in an edition of two on Feb 20. Copy one for the 60th birthday of Clark Coolidge & copy two for the personal library of Billy Higgins." One copy located at Stanford University. Please note: there has been some suggestion that this book was actually written by Geof Young. Additional info is welcome. The Figures paperback books
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.<br>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
14220Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An original 1930's album containing 88 autograph signatures of jazz musicians sporting figures and other personalities. The musicians represented include Coleman Hawkins Johnny Desmond Gene Krupa Bid Sid Catlett Benny Goodman Artie Shaw "Hot Lips" Page Cab Calloway Anita O'Day Roy Eldridge Woody Herman Les Brown and many more. The album with a two-ring binding with some signatures signed directly onto the album leaves and others clipped and mounted some on larger folded sheets. 31 pages of autographs with further blank pages in the middle; on the last several pages all the grades from the owner's report cards from 1930 to 1943 are meticulously recorded! An inscription to the owner on the verso of the title page dates the album to 1931. Light toning and edge wear; overall in fine condition. 6.25 x 4.5 inches 15.8 x 11.7 cm. unknown books
1960CAT206New 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> Photographs as follows:<br /> <br /> Willie Cook. 5 x 7 inches. A portrait of Cook seated. Excellent condition. <br /> <br /> Count Basie and Duke Ellington. 5 x 7 inches. The two jazz greats are seated at their respective pianos during rehearsal. Excellent condition.<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> Duke Ellington Conducting his Band. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. <br /> <br /> Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo Theatre New York c. 1959. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent Condition.<br /> <br /> Count Basie Seated at a Table Smoking a Cigar. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. <br /> <br /> Pee Wee russell Painting at his New York Apartment c. 1966. Good condition marginal tear affecting ½ inch of image. <br /> <br /> Overall a nice group and an example of a photographer whose work is not often available on the market. unknown books
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!<br><br><br />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
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." <br style="">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  <br>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. <br style="">BILL EVANS - NEW CONVERSATIONS.  Label: WARNER P-10516<br style="">Cover : EW/ Record : E<br style="">Obi stripe: E<br style="">Obtained 13 September 1978 signed dated and inscribed in black ink on the front cover. <br style=""><br style="">SARAH VAUGHAN WITH CLIFFORD BROWN<br style="">Label: MERCURY BT-1324<br style="">Cover : EW/ Record : EDJ<br style="">Obi stripe: E<br style="">Obtained 26 April 1975 signed in black ink on the front cover.  <br style="">NINA SIMONE - SPELL ON YOU<br style="">Label: PHILIPS SFX-7167<br style="">Cover : EW/ Record : E-W<br style="">Obi stripe: E<br style="">Obtained 1973 signed and dated in black ink on the record label and to an interior page of the album booklet<br style=""><br style="">DEXTER GORDON - APARTMENT<br style="">Label: STEEPLECHASE RJ-7101<br style="">Cover : EW/ Record : E<br style="">Obi stripe: E<br style="">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<br style=""><br style="">MILES DAVIS - KIND OF BLUE<br style="">Label: CBS/SONY SOPL-155Cover : EW/ Record : EObi stripe: EObtained 1975 signed in silver ink "Miles Davis" on the front cover. <br style=""><br style=""><br style="">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.  <br style="">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.<br style=""> unknown books