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199523-08-22-gw-7809-jmUtah Jazz 1995-01-01. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Light wear. Good copy. Utah Jazz paperback
1950List2914Unknown 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
196981807New York: Macmillan 1969-70. Second and fifth volumes are first printings; remainder are second or later printings. Six octavo volumes. Uniform cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; 255223290246288287pp; illustrated with photographic plates halftones. All in Very Good or better condition in the original dustwrappers; jacket to 4th volume slightly ragged along upper edge else all Very Good or better. An indispensable set compiling reviews interviews profiles and critical articles with reading lists and selected discographies. Macmillan unknown
192559963Chicago: Olson Rug Company 1925. Oblong 4to. 9.75 x 7.8 in. 2 48 2 pp. Colour-illustrated throughout numerous black & white decorative border illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers vivid wraparound Orientalist cover art of scene depicting bedouin camels & tents in the desert seated upon Oriental rugs minor shelfwear slight bumping to couple corners still VG bright copy including order blank in red & black w/ pictorial map on verso of Olson Rug railroad time deliveries. First edition of this lavishly illustrated and scarce Jazz Age flooring catalogue for the famed Chicago rug manufacturer filled with striking Orientalist inspired Persian carpets Middle Eastern Central Asian and East Asian patterns intended to brighten any Craftsman home. Found in 1874 by Walter E. Olson this beautiful catalogue includes a number of interior designs showing the rugs fitted into Arts & Crafts homes and Flapper Era homes with decor window treatments and furnishings. The Olson Rug Company was a pioneering recycling firm detailing how they used old carpets rugs and old clothing to produce velvety rugs which would rival in appearance and wearing high grade Wiltons and Axminsters. The Olson Company is perhaps best remembered for the Olson Park and Waterfall which was a popular local tourist attraction located outside the factory until sold to Marshall Field in 1965 which subsequently plowed the gardens under and created a parking lot. Worldcat locates 1 copy Winterthur. Olson Rug Company, paperback
193560373New York: Grosset & Dunlap c. 1935 1941. 8vo. 310 pp. Beige publisher’s cloth blue lettering on spine minor shelwear soiling w/ d.j. moody Art Deco cover art by Arthur Hawkins representing Manhattan’s Upper Eastside minor chipping head of spine couple closed tears creasing edgewear still VG/G copy w/ original Newport OR drugstore stamp on front pastedown. First Grosset Edition reprinting the 1935 Harcourt Brace original of this novel set against the backdrop of the waning years of the Jazz Age and the promiscuous experiences of Gloria Wondrous including her affair with Weston Liggett and assorted friends. In 1960 25 years after its first publication the novel was adapted into the film starring Elizabeth Taylor for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
193345554Lyons 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. <br /> <br /> 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
1917List3667Omaha 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.<br /> <br /> 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 Melodyâ€â€”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
198148783Sarasota FL: The Jazz Club of Sarasota 1981. good. 24 pages. Wraps illus. Name of previous owner present. Covers somewhat worn and soiled. This program has several important jazz autographs: Albert Thornton Al Grey p. 11; Kenneth Norville Red Morvo p. 13; John Bucky Pizzarelli p. 13; Robert M. Bobby Rosengarden p. 13; George Holmes Buddy Tate p. 14; Robert Sage Bob Wilber p. 14. The Jazz Club of Sarasota paperback
1983499742Bangor: 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
195590343Newport Jazz Festival 1955. Soft cover. Good/No jacket. 1955 festival program. Signed by Woody Herman on page 11. Photospread of 15 portraits by Richard Avedon. Covers worn especially along stapled spine but still intact. Newport Jazz Festival unknown
1948054196RKO Radio 1948. Poster. Very Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. 11" X 14". A complete set of eight original release lobby cards in VG or better condition. The movie features great Jazz tunes by Benny Goodman Tommy Dorsey Louis Armstrong Lionel Hampton Charlie Barnet Mel Powell Buck & Bubbles Ford Washington Lee and John William Sublett Page Cavanaugh Trio Golden Gate Quartet and Russo and the Samba Kings. RKO Radio unknown
1999x-0810835630The Scarecrow Press Inc. 1999. Hardcover. New. 237 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. hardcover
192659638Chicago IL: Crane Co. 836 S. Michigan Ave. 1926. 4to. 47 1 pp. With over 150 of colour illustrations & blueprint floor plans throughout Gray printed boards w/ black & blue lettering on front cover minor shelfwear very slight chipping at foot of spine faint rust to staples at gutter margin of text block still VG copy. First edition of this scarce catalogue emphasizing the importance of colour and the latest modern crane fixtures valves and fittings mixing their compact and graceful gleaming white enamel on iron units with fine marbles and flawless crystal. Each of the individual designs includes elevation drawings along with each wall illustrated as it would appear on the blueprints on the facing page for the floor plans. Some feature Greco-Roman or Pompeian design elements while others show vivid Art Deco influences. Worldcat locates 6 copies The Strong DLC Hagley MO Hist. Mus. Cincinnati Carnegie. Crane Co., 836 S. Michigan Ave., hardcover
192358318New York: Arthur Murray 801 Madison Ave. 1923. 4to. 32 pp. Blue-tinted photo illustrations text diagram illustrations. Textured brown softcovers gilt lettering & decorative border on front cover yapp fore-edges minor soiling & fading front cover to lettering minor bumping to couple corners still a VG copy. First edition of one of the renowned dance studios’ instruction books after they opened their dance studio in New York in 1923 in conjunction with their struggling mail-order business. Murray pioneered dance instruction and dance schools to encourage exercise and build self-confidence and poise and was the first to broadcast live dance music on the radio in March 1920. Murray originated the idea of the “footprints†style of teaching dance now an Arthur Murray trademark and this book includes instructions for The Chasse Waltz the Tango foxtrot and The Cortez. Worldcat locates 4 copies w/ similar titles and different collations NYPL - 2 copies 51 & 24 pp. British Lib. 51 pp. BYU 63 pp. Arthur Murray, 801 Madison Ave., paperback
1947041182New York: Program Publishing Co 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16pp; illustrated throughout from photographs some full-page. Includes: "The Story of Duke Ellington" running text; "Farewell to Jazz Fakers" by Duke Ellington; "Duke Ellington - Musical Pioneer" by Leonard Feather plus Feather's notes on the concert program. Bound in pictorial yellow wrappers 12" x 9" The concert program: Jazz Accelerando; Bojangles; Creole Love Call; You Name It; Liberian Suite; Resume; Songs by Lu Eliot; Violet Blue; The History of Jazz in Three Minutes; Songs by Albert Hibbler; Duke Ellington at the Piano. Personnel: Trumpets--Al Killian Ray Nance Harold Baker Nelson Williams David Burns; Trombones--Lawrence Brown Tyree Glenn Quentin Jackson; Reeds--Johnny Hodges Harry Carney Jimmy Hamilton Russell Procope Jimmy Forrest; Rhythm--Duke Ellington piano; Sonny Greer drums; Wendell Marshall bass. Vocals--Albert Hibbler Kay Davis Lu Eliot. Program Publishing Co unknown
1938List3619New York: Mills Music Inc 1938. Folio sheet music illustrated pictorial wraps. 9 x 12 inches. 6 pp. including cover. Moderate creasing with small edge wear and light surface wear; a bright very good example. A visually striking promotional sheet music cover issued in connection with the Cotton Club revue Cotton Club Parade 1938 featuring large photographic portraits of Bill “Bojangles†Robinson and Cab Calloway wearing top hats against a bold orange background. The design incorporates lively vignette illustrations of musicians and dancers along the lower margin evoking the theatrical energy of Harlem nightclub revues of the late swing era.<br /> <br /> The song was written by the prolific Tin Pan Alley team Benny Davis and J. Fred Coots responsible for numerous popular songs of the 1920s and 1930s. The cover notes that the entire production was conceived and staged by Davis and Coots and prominently advertises the show as “featuring Bill Robinson and Cab Calloway†two of the most celebrated African-American entertainers of the period. Robinson already internationally famous for his stair-step tap dancing and film appearances was one of the highest-paid Black performers of the era. Calloway leader of the Cotton Club orchestra during the early 1930s had become one of the most recognizable bandleaders in jazz through his performances and recordings such as “Minnie the Moocher†which popularized the “hi-de-ho†call-and-response style referenced on the cover by the song “Hi-De-Ho Romeo.â€. Mills Music, Inc unknown
19860354191986. Original edition. Framed. Very Good. Broadside printed in black and white. Large photo of Hampton in tux posed over his vibraphone. Laid into a black plastic frame glazed. Image 22" x 17". Frame 25" x 18.5" Inscribed in blue ink upper left: "Good-Luck / To Andy Scotty / Lionel / Hampton. unknown
19682080202103701141Not Available 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B5 books: 7 books Not Available paperback
19704900n.p. 1970. Loose Photos. Very Good. Five 8x10 promotional Jazz drummer photos the 2 Kruppas and 1 Lewis are gelatin silver and the 2 Bellson are halftones all variously inscribed and / or signed. The signature on the Lewis photo is signed in the photos' negative and thus not "live" ink - as are the other four "live ink" autographs in this collection. The company "Long & McQuade" is the largest chain of musical instrument retailers in Canada and as we are unsure who Lou Williams Jr. & Sr. are assume that they may have been music store owners. One of the Louie Bellson photos has "March 18 / '79 at Convocation Hall / Toronto Ont." written in blue ink on the verso. All photos a touch age toned w. only minor wear. A nice collection of drummer signed photos showcasing three of Jazzdom's most legendary and time-honored players. unknown
197138867NY: 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. <br/><br/> ESP Disk unknown
1925589771925. Two black & white photo images 8" x 10" on glossy stock mounted in Crown Studio mats 11 1/4" x 13 1/4". Images are night shots of windows depicting surroundings full of architectural details. Very minimal soiling to lower fore-edge. 1 image with a bit longer exposure time still a very good pair of photos. These two commercial photos of 1920s window displays provide an invaluable historical glimpse into the marketing of men's fashions at the height of the Jazz Age. The photos include unique period elements with breathtaking flower arrangements positioned amongst the displayed clothing. The men's suits range in tints and style primarily including double-breasted and single-breasted suits with trousers carefully draped over surrounding decorative tables and stands cravats at the neck and each with a dapper cane displayed above it. Rich draperies of men's suit fabrics have been arranged below and around the displays. Frank Jacoby's store was a thriving business in Bridgeport CT. at 1083 Broad Street until the throes of the Great Depression when they were forced to close in 1933. unknown
193961627York Pennsylvania: The Valencia Ballroom 1939. Quarto. Spiral-bound leatherette boards hardcover; 94pp; illus. Trivial soil to covers with front board very slightly bowed at fore edge; internally fresh clean and unmarked; Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Promotional album for the storied Valencia Ballroom a popular musical venue during the Swing Band era. Strategically located on a route that connected New York Philadelphia and Baltimore the Valencia caught traveling orchestras on their way north or south thus bringing an impressive assortment of acts to the unlikely industrial city of York PA. Richly illustrated with photographs of the venue of the Tassia family owners and managers of the Valencia architectural views and dozens of portraits of the popular performers who played there including Eddie Duchin Kay Kyser Benny Goodman Sammy Kaye Guy Lombardo Bunny Berrigan the Dorseys and a host of others. Though the Valencia clearly favored white orchestras a few noteworthy African-American performers appeared there regularly and are pictured including Jimmy Lunceford Cab Calloway Duke Ellington and Claude Hopkins. A lavishly-produced souvenir and highly uncommon; OCLC notes four locations and we trace no other copies in the trade. The Valencia Ballroom unknown
1924List3678New 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.<br /> <br /> 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’â€.3<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 1 Brian Rust Jazz records 1897–1942 Arlington House Publishers 1978.<br /> 2 Tom Lord Jazz Discography Lord Music Reference Inc. 1992.<br /> 3 “Act 3. New York Introduction: 1924–1925†Smithsonian Louis Armstrong Education Kit https://amhistory.si.edu/jazz/education/Act3.pdf. Clarence Williams unknown
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
1950223221950. Complete 1950 run of Jazz Journal Vol. 3 Nos. 1-12. London: L. M. Publications 1950. Complete run of the 1950 volume. Twelve issues with each issue around 20 pages. Black-and-white photo illustrations throughout. Printed paper wraps. Founded in 1948 by editor Sinclair Traill Jazz Journal became a critical platform for serious jazz criticism in Britain at a time when the country began appreciating the impact of African American musical innovation. This volume features twelve monthly issues each spotlighting legendary musicians in deeply reverent portraits: Louis Armstrong Baby Dodds Coleman Hawkins Fats Waller Earl Hines and others. The December cover has a Christmas theme.<br /> <br /> This archive is a window into Britain's postwar jazz awakening. The articles range from retrospectives to musicology and artist discographies. Floyd Levin's "The American Jazz Scene" captures the transatlantic tone of the journal mourning the death of Buster Wilson and lauding figures like Sidney Anderson and Kid Ory as vanguards of "authentic" jazz-framed as endangered in a postwar America increasingly seduced by commercialism. Meanwhile Derrick Stewart-Baxter's "Preachin' the Blues" traces rural-to-urban migration patterns in blues development analyzing Sleepy John Estes' discography and folk influences. The December issue features a full-page bibliophilic essay "A Case for Books" reviewing A Treasury of the Blues by W. C. Handy whom it names "the composer of the classic Memphis Blues and Joe Turner Blues" emphasizing the book's role in preserving "the true and historical survey of the blues." Taken together the essays discographies and image curation construct a coherent theory of jazz not only as music but as cultural heritage. Moderate and consistent soiling and creasing to wrappers; binding intact but some covers remain delicate. Occasional chipping at spine. Covers remain vivid with strong photographic contrasts. Overall good condition. A complete year's run of one of the earliest and most influential British jazz journals with signatures from leading musicians of the era such as Armstrong Dodds and Hawkins. unknown