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

63437 Calloway, Cab & Rollins, Bryant Of Minnie the Moocher & Me With Illustrations selected and edited by John Shearer Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1976. Hardcover, 282pp., b&w illustrations. Minor wear; lightly toned and spotted page edges and dustwrapper worn and chipped along edges. Very good to near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. One of the best-loved jazz entertainer's life in his own words. Click here to order $20

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

61539 Case, Brian & Britt, Stan & Murray, Chrissie The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz An Indispensable A-Z of the Legends of Jazz Salamander Books, London, 1986. Quarto hardcover, 208pp., colour & b&w illustrations. Minor wear; lightly spotted upper page edges and dustwrapper edges slightly worn. Very good to near fine otherwise. Dated, perhaps, but trenchantly written and presented. Click here to order $23

61522 Clare, John/Brennan, Gail Bodgie Dada & The Cult of Cool University of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto hardcover, 218pp., colour & b&w illustrations. Faint spotting to upper page edges. Dustwrapper slightly scuffed with minor edge and corner wear. Very good to near fine. Something of an insider's history of Australian jazz from the days of the El Rocco into the early 90s. Click here to order $25

62148 Collier, James Lincoln Duke Ellington Michael Joseph, London, 1987. Hardcover, 340pp., b&w illustrations. Lightly toned and spotted page edges and dustwrapper worn along edges and corners. Very good. Critical biography and musical analysis. Click here to order $25

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. Instrumentalists and vocalists are included from the early days, the lesser known as well as the famed. 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

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 $20

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. A detailed examination of the entire second half of the trumpeter's career and placed in a broader context than previously attempted. Click here to order $17

65037 Gabbard, Krin (ed.) Jazz Among the Discourses Duke University Press, Durham, 1995. Paperback, 288pp. Minor scuffing and edgewear to silver and blue cover. First page corner clipped. Otherwise very good to near fine. Considers jazz outside of established critical modes, bringing together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about the music. The lens employed include comparative literature, African American studies, communication theory, music and film, English literature, history and philosophy. 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

66361 Giddins, Gary Visions of Jazz The First Century Oxford, 1999. Paperback, 690pp. Scuffing and edgewear to black cover. Very good. Giddin's passion for jazz in all its guises produces more than just another history" "joyously polyphonic, with history, legend, musicology, biography, and performance all rising out of the mix.". Click here to order $20

46241 GOODMAN, Benny (Stanley Baron, intro) 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. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Drawn from Goodman's large collection and photographs, providing a panorama of his life and career. 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

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

64256 Russell, Ross Bird Lives! The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker Da Capo Press, 1996. Paperback, 404pp. Remainder, new. Vivid biography that has done much - for better or worse - to shape posterity's understanding of one of the geniuses of modern music. Click here to order $16

60723 Schuller, Gunther Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development Oxford University Press, 1968. Hardcover, 401pp. Page edges spotted and very lightly soiled, some spots to endpapers, dustwrapper worn at edges and a few small marks, scrapes. Very good to near fine otherwise. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. History and analysis of jazz to end of its first great flowering in the early 1930s. The great soloists are assessed as are the big bands and arrangers. The author comprehensively demonstrates the genesis of jazz in African musical forms. Click here to order $30

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

60524 Vail, Ken Lady Day's Diary The Life of Billie Holiday 1937-1959 Castle Communications, Chessington, 1996. Softcover, quarto, 207pp., b&w illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine. Month by month chronology from joining to Count Basie's Orchestra to her death in 1959. Illustrated with photographs, newspaper extracts, record and performance reviews, ads and posters. Click here to order $22

60523 Vail, Ken Miles' Diary The Life of Miles Davis 1947-1961 Sanctuary Publishing, London, 1996. Softcover, quarto, 173pp., b&w illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine. Month by month chronology from joining to Charlie Parker Quintet to the famous 1961 Carnegie Hall concert. Illustrated with photographs, newspaper extracts, record and performance reviews, ads and posters. Click here to order $22

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