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Jelly Roll, Jabbo, and Fats. 19 Portraits in Jazz

By: Balliett, Whitney

Price: £6.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 11405

ISBN: 0195032756

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

x, 197pp. Very light wear to dust jacket, previous owner's name and address on endpaper.
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The New Jazz Book

By: Berendt, Joachim

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Jazz Book Club: 1965

Seller ID: 4581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

314pp, discography. Dust jacket edge worn and chipped.
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Combo: USA: Eight Lives in Jazz

By: Blesh, Rudi

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Chilton Book Company: 1971

Seller ID: 11727

ISBN: 0801952506

Binding: Hardcover

240pp, 8 plates, discography. Ex library, remains of book plate, usual stamps in slightly chipped dust jacket. Louis Armstrong (Satchmo) , Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden, Lester Young, Eubie Blake, Gene Krupa, Charlie Christian & Billie Holiday, eight great names from the world of jazz.
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They all Played Ragtime: the True Story of an American Music

By: Blesh, Rudi & Janis, Harriet

Price: £30.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 1950

Seller ID: 4494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xviii, 338pp, xviii, 16 plates, includes the complete score of Maple Leaf Rag. Lists of published ragtime pieces, phonograph records (both cylinder & disk) , and player piano rolls. Dust jacket slightly Chipped.
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Saxophone Colossus - A Portrait of Sonny Rollins

By: Blumenthal, Bob

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 2010

Seller ID: 12727

ISBN: 0810996154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

160pp, many illustrations, colour & b/w. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. Published to mark the occasion of Sonny Rollins 80th birthday. ; 10.31 X 8.90 X 0.94 inches
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Georgia On My Mind. The Nat Gonella Story

By: Brown, Ron. & Brown, Cyril

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Portsmouth, Milestone Publications: 1985

Seller ID: 7411

ISBN: 0903852683

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

171pp, illustrations.
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The Hornes. The Story of Lena Horne and Her Family

By: Buckley, Gail Lumet

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson:

Seller ID: 11778

ISBN: 0297790846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

xii, 262pp, illustrations. Lena Horne and several generations of her family described by her daughter. Dust jacket price clipped.
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I Used To Be an Animal, But I'm All Right Now

By: Burdon, Eric

Price: £80.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber: 1986

Seller ID: 11447

ISBN: 0571134920

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

221pp.
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Next to a Letter From Home: Major Glenn Miller's Wartime Band

By: Butcher, Geoffrey

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing: 1986

Seller ID: 7185

ISBN: 1851580255

Binding: Hardcover

xvi, 360pp plus index, illustrations, comprehensive discography. Ex library front endpaper removed, usual stamps.
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Miles Davis: a Critical Biography

By: Carr, Ian

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Paladin Books: 1988

Seller ID: 11650

ISBN: 0586084568

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

367pp, plates, discography.
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Jazz Profiles: The Spirit of the Nineties

By: Carver, Reginald & Bernstein, Lenny

Price: £8.50

Publisher: New York, Billboard Books: 1998

Seller ID: 6956

ISBN: 0823083381

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

304pp, many illustrations. A collection of 40 written and photographic portraits of some of the most important performers of contemporary jazz.
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The Jazz Word

By: Cerulli, Dom; Korall, Burt & Nasatir, Mort

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Jazz Book Club: 1963

Seller ID: 4710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

192pp. A little foxing along top edge of pages.
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Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night At the Jungle Inn

By: Charters, Samuel B

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Marion Boyars: 1984

Seller ID: 4992

ISBN: 0714528978

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

153pp. An imaginary memoir.
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Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street

By: Chilton, John

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury: 1970

Seller ID: 4495

ISBN: 0950129003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

447pp, b/w illustrations. Previous owners book plate on front paste-down.
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Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz

By: Chilton, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1987

Seller ID: 7972

ISBN: 0333443861

Binding: Hardcover

331pp, 32 plates. Ex library, usual stamps else very good in very good dust jacket
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Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street

By: Chilton, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: MacMillan: 1989

Seller ID: 11555

ISBN: 0333483758

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

375pp, 16 plates.
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Sondheim and Lloyd-Webber: the New Musical

By: Citron, Stephen

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 8274

ISBN: 0195096010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

452pp, illustrations. Heavy book, extra postage may be requested for delivery outside UK. An insight into each artist's working methods, analyzing their scores, their early works, and their works-in-progress, as well as the impact their youthful training and private lives have had upon their creative outputs.
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Wishing on the Moon. Life and Times of Billie Holiday

By: Clarke, Donald

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd: 1995

Seller ID: 11607

ISBN: 0140147489

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

xi, 468pp, plates. This biography of Billie Holliday describes the music business and club scene of her youth and her childhood in Baltimore before she became a dancer and then a singer. Accounts of the recording sessions and club dates, in chronological order.
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