Wes Montgomery
London: Ashley Mark Publishing, 2008. Softcover. Folio. 140 pp. Second edition.
African American Music
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Hardcover. 8vo., 280 pp. Eight [8] page insert of black and white photographs. Brings together, for the first time, many of Albert Murray's finest interviews and essays on music, most never before published, as well as rare liner notes and prefaces. Murray was a......
Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love
New York: Hyperion, 2003. Hardcover. 198 pp. A collection of vibrant and honest "reflections on love" by the R&B singer.
![Item #1017257 Story/Time: The Life of an Idea [The Toni Morrison Lecture Series]. Bill T. Jones](https://32-1rarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1017257.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1766632265)
Story/Time: The Life of an Idea [The Toni Morrison Lecture Series]
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Hardcover. Quarto. 104 pp. Acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art and life as he describes the genesis of Story/Time, a dance work produced by his company and inspired by the modernist composer and performer John Cage.
Legend: The Best of Bob Marley The Wailers Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords Marley, Bob
Hal Leonard, 1995. Softcover. 4to. Contains arrangements for 14 songs.
Guitar Styles of Brownie McGhee - Songbook With Guitar Sheet Music
New York: Oak Publications, 1971. Softcover. 4to., 102 pp. Includes lengthy autobiography and guitar sheet music for many songs. Black and white reproductions of photos.
Coleman Hawkins
Kent: Spellmount, 1984. Hardcover. Thin 12mo. 93 pp. With black and white photos throughout. Jazz Masters Series.
Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band, Volume 2 [Greenwood Cultural Center Series in African Diaspora History and Culture]
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. Hardcover. 8vo., Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.
A Moment's Notice: Portraits of American Jazz Musicians
New York: Schirmer/Macmillan, 1983. Hardcover. Square quarto. 133 pp. Includes photos of some of the best-known jazz greats of the twentieth century with text provided by jazz critic Gary Giddins. Includes Discography and Index.
A Record Store Window Advertisement for L.L. Cool J.'s 1985's Debut Disc "Radio"
New York: CBS, 1985. Softbound. 16" x 16" square on card stock. Album image on verso with a blank recto. Very Good with some waviness on the right side. "Radio" is the debut studio album by American rapper LL Cool J. It was released on November 18, 1985, by Def.....
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo., 314 pp. Photographs, discography. First print. A contribution to the history of the blues and of African-American culture in general. Writing from a black/feminist standpoint, Harrison shows the joys, trials, heartbreaks and enduring influence of such singers as Victoria Spivey and Alberta.....
The Chicago Piano Man
Chicago: Self Published, 2007. Softcover. 8vo. 123 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.
A Record Store Window Advertisement for Kool and the Gang's 1982 Album "As One"
NP: De Lite, 1982. Softcover. 12" x 12" on card stock. Color album cover image on verso with b&w band photo recto. "As One" was the band's fourteenth studio album.
A Record Store Window Advertisement for Kool and the Gang's 1984 Album "Emergency"
NP: De Lite, 1984. Softbound. 12" x 12" on card stock. B&W album cover verso and blank recto. Emergency is the sixteenth studio album by the American band Kool & the Gang, released in 1984. It ultimately became the group's biggest selling career album, earning Double Platinum status in America.....
The Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976. Softcover. 8vo., 205 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. An authentic collection of folk poems that deal with activities that characterize "The Life": pimping and prostitution, the sale and use of narcotics, and a wide variety of confidence games. From the Folklife and Folklore Series. Very.....
Lift Every Voice: Expecting The Most and Getting the Best from All God's Children
New York: Hyperion, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo. 234 pp. Black and white photos. Story of how Dr. Walter Turnbull, Founder and Director of the Boy's Choir of Harlem, realized his dream of creating opportunities and better lives for the children of Harlem.
History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People from Charley Patton to Robert Cray
New York: Hyperion, 1995. Hardcover. Large 8vo., 309 pp. Illustrated. Stated first edition, first print. A ground-breaking rethinking of the blues that examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mississippi Delta to its amplification in Chicago right after World War II, Davis.....
Oh, Didn't He Ramble: The Life Story of Lee Collins as Told to Mary Collins [Music in American Life]
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974. Hardcover. Quarto. 159 pp. with black and white photos. Index. Includes 33 1/3 rpm "flexi-disc" laid in to rear.
![Item #519252 Black Hollywood: From 1970 to Today [Citadel Film Series]. Gary Null](https://32-1rarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/519252.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684529282)
Black Hollywood: From 1970 to Today [Citadel Film Series]
New York: Citidel, 1993. Softcover. 4to., 223 pp. Illustrated with black and white photos.
Porgy and Bess
New York: Al Greenstone / Artcraft Litho, 1942. Softcover. 4to. Unpaginated [16 pp.] With black and white photos throughout. Gershwin's classic Porgy and Bess Souvenir program. The play featured a cast of classically trained African-American singers, a risk on Broadway where it was initially unpopular. Porgy and Bess played the.....
Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. 285 pp. Black and white photos. Bibliography, Discography, Index.
Diana Ross: A Biography
Citadel Press, 2008. Hardcover. 8vo. Uncommon small press publication.
The Blues is a Feeling: Voices & Visions of African-American Blues Musicians
Mt. Horeb: Face to Face Books, 1998. Hardcover. 60 pp. and 90 black and white photographs. Photographs and Interviews by James Fraher. Preface by James Fraher. Introduction by William H. Wiggins, Jr. Index of Portraits and Background Photographs.
The Book of American Negro Spirituals
Binghamton: The Viking Press, 1925. Hardcover. Large 8vo., 187 pp. Contains the words and music to 61 spirituals; musical arrangements by J. Rosamond Johnson, with additional numbers by Lawrence Brown. Includes Johnson's 40 pp. preface which begins with Johnson's poem 'O Black and Unknown Bards.'.
This Was Harlem: 1900-1950
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo., An engaging history of the Harlem neighborhood of New York from its shift from a white community in 1900 when blacks migrated north in large numbers until 1950 when the area lost its cultural edge. Focuses on the literature, painting, music.....