lamdha books - Catalogue of books on jazz and blues

55590 Acosta, Leonardo Cubano Be Cubano Bop One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba Smithsonian Books, Washington, 2003. Hardcover, 288 pp., b&w illustrations. Slightly scuffed dustwrapper. Very good to near fine otherwise. Pays tribute not only to the distinguished lineage of Cuban jazz musicians and composers but also to the rich musical exchanges between Cuban and American jazz throughout the twentieth century. Click here to order $28

56483 Brothers, Thomas Louis Armstrong's New Orleans Norton, New York, 2006. Hardback. Remainder. New. A depiction of New Orleans at the turn of the twentieth century, a city marked by racial tensions, yet also characterized by fervent religious beliefs and, of course, music: funeral bands on the streets, professional musicians in the dance halls and caberets, sanctified parishioners in the churches, and early blues musicians on the street corners and in the honky-tonks. This account of Armstrong's formative years coincides with the birth and evolution of jazz itself. Click here to order $24

59620 Carver, Reginald and Bernstein, Lenny Jazz Profiles The Spirit of the Nineties Billboard Books, New York, 1998. Hardcover, 304pp., b&w illustrations. Page edges lightly toned. Dustwrapper lightly worn at edges. Very good. Profiles of forty jazz musicians including biographical information, interview excerpts, and select discographies. Click here to order $20

41257 Dahl, Linda Stormy Weather The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen Limelight, New York, 1996. Paperback, remainder, new. Exhaustively researched and pioneering study. Click here to order $17

8521 Davis, Francis Outcats Jazz Composers, Instrumentalists and Singers Oxford University Press, New Yotk, 1990. Minor wear; very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] An indispensible guide to the best in - then - recent and reissued jazz. Subjects range from the mainstream to the experimental, from Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Winton Marsalis to Cecil Taylor, John Zorn and Sun Ra. Click here to order $30

14365 Delannoy, Luc Pres: The Story of Lester Young University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1993. Hardcover. Remainder: new. Biography and appreciation. Click here to order $25

57645 Dregni, Michael Gypsy Jazz In search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008. Hardback, 333pp., b/w illustrations. New. Remainder. A history of the music beginning with the guitarist and leading up to modern times. Interspersed in the narrative are many reflections by the musicians themselves. Click here to order $25

60255 Freeman, Philip Running the Voodoo Down The Electric Music of Miles Davis Backbeat Books, San Francisco, 2005. Paperback, large 8vo, 241pp., b/w illustrations. New. Remainder. Click here to order $17

59409 Gelly, Dave Being Prez The Life & Music of Lester Young Oxford, 2007. Hardcover, 171pp., B&w illustrations. Remainder, new. The author is the weekly jazz critic for The Observer and contributes regularly to many other British periodicals. Click here to order $21

37056 Gelly, Dave Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me Backbeat Books, San Francisco, 2002. Remainder. Small quarto paperback. New. Black and white photographs. The life and mastery of the instrument, the musical precision and lightness of touch. Click here to order $15

46241 GOODMAN, Benny Benny: King of Swing Thames and Hudson, London, 1979. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover, (63pp) of text plus 212 illustrations (b/w photos) Some insect damage to boards. Minor scuffing and edge wear to dustwrapper but clean and sound otherwise. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Click here to order $32

58698 Griffin, Farah Jasmine & Washington, Salim Clawing at the Limits of Cool Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever St Martin's Press, New York, 2008. Hardback, 294pp. New. Remainder. One of the key relationships in jazz which changed the course of the music itself. Click here to order $17

10534 Haydon, Geoffrey/ Marks, Dennis (ed) Repercussions A Celebration of African - American Music Century, London, 1985 Spotting to upper page edges, minor wear; very good in like dustwrapper. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Essays on African music, gospel and rhythm and blues, and an excellent and illuminating text on Max Roach. Click here to order $18

30395 Hicock, Larry Castles Made of Sound The Story of Gil Evans De Capo, Cambridge, 2002. Hardcover, remainder, new. One of the least publicized revolutionaries in the music, Evans has worked with many of the luminaries of modern jazz. Click here to order $20

14396 Magee, Jeffrey Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz The Uncrowned King of Swing Oxford, New York, 2005. Hardcover. Remainder: new. Click here to order $25

41287 Nicholson, Stuart Reminiscing in Tempo A Portrait of Duke Ellington Northern University Press, Boston, 1999. Hardcover, remainder, new. Pieced together first-hand reminiscenses of those who knew him best - his wife, his sister, his son; the personalities who made up his band; personal friends, business associates. and, of course, Ellington himself. Click here to order $23

60041 Ratliff, Ben The Jazz Ear Conversations Over Music Times Books, New York, 2008. Hardcover, 235pp., b&w illustrations. New. Remainder. Participants include Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Joshua Redman and others. Click here to order $18

57619 Terkel, Studs And They All Sang Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey. The New Press, New York, 2005. Hardback, 301pp. New. Remainder. Includes conversations with Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie along with classical and popular musicians. Click here to order $20

9946 Tucker, Mark (edited) The Duke Ellington Reader Oxford University Press, 1973. Very good in sl.worn and tarnished dustwrapper, small tear at lower rear hinge. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] Anthology of texts covering reviews and considerations of the different aspects of the artist's career. Click here to order $30

57793 Whitehead, Kevin New Dutch Swing Billboard Books, New York, 2000. Paperback. Minor wear to covers, mark on one page. Very good. An in-depth examination of Amsterdam's vital and distinctive jazz scene. Click here to order $18

34775 Wilmer, Valerie Jazz People: signed copy Quartet, London, 1977. Paperback. Minor wear, spotted prelims and page edges. Very good. Inscribed to person. Interviews with fourteen musicians, from earlier to contemporary players. Click here to order $25

15376 Wilmer, Valerie (photographs) The Face of Black Music Da Capo, 1983 Quarto paperback. Moderate wear. Good. A collection of photographs of black musicians. Wilmer's photographics are just the "face" but the very "pulse" of the music, captured not only in images of the great names but in the sukey jumps, as they are known, of backwoods Mississipi, in the tenderness of a harmonica player making music for his children, in the dignity of a soberly dressed congregation singing the Lord's praises in an Atlanta church. Click here to order $20