Search Results: Jazz from RC Books

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard, 2006. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Subtitled "My Life In and Out of Jazz Time." One of the outstanding parts of this book is a 21 page chronology of every Vanguard booking from 5/23/89 - 7/2/06, compiled by Brian Rushton. Also contains a brief discography of every live album recorded at the Vanguard from 1989-2003. 288 numbered pages with over 50 photographs.Uncut dust jacket protected in a Brodart cover.

Sarasota, FL: New Chapter Publisher, 2008. First Edition . Pictorial Covers. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Jean Germain. Wonderful jazz photography from Jean Germain. SIGNED by Germain. Foreword by musician Dick Hyman. Over 100 photographs of 65 jazz musicians captured at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center in Sarasota, Florida. 96 pages. Dust jacket clean but rubbed. Jacket cover has two book award stickers. Publisher's business card laid-in.

New York: Billboard Publications, Inc., 1988. First American Edition . Cloth. Very Good+/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. First U. S. Printing. Originally published in Japan in 1986. A singularly beautiful collection of photographic images of the jazz greats - Armstrong, Basie, Miles, Ellington, Holiday, Monk, Parker, Young, and many more. Photographs by Abe, Ray Avery, William Claxton, William Gottlieb, Bob Parent, Charles Stewart, and several others. The majority of the photographs are from the 1940s through the 1960s. Introduction by Nat Hentoff. Indexed. 280 pp. 359 illustrations, 52 in color. Mild soiling to free endpapers. Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Superb - the most interesting collection of classic jazz photography we have seen.

Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1998. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/Very Good-. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. The lives of some 300 of the greatest jazz artists in history. 352 indexed pages featuring almost 300 photographs in black and white and color. Previous owner's note on rear endpaper. Dust jacket, now protected in an archival plastic cover has edgewear including a one and a half-inch tear.

New York, NY: Pantheon Books Inc., 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth and Paper. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sub-titled "A Gathering Of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now." Very mild foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket has light wear at head of spine and a mild fold to front flap. Extensive and intelligent reading indeed. 1,068 pages.