Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
Hollywood: Reprise Records, 1993. Softcover. 8 1/2" x 11" four panel promotional piece announcing the Hendrix album/CD. Four color and black and white photos.
African American Music
The Street that Never Slept: New York's Fabled 52nd Street - and the bootleggers, comics, characters, strippers, club owners, and jazzmen that made it swing
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971. Hardcover. 378 pp. With black and white photographs, Discography and Index. A book about 52nd Street in New York from its speakeasy days to becoming one of the best places to hear jazz and take in other entertainment.
Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love
New York: Hyperion, 2003. Hardcover. 98 pp. A collection of vibrant and honest "reflections on love" by the R&B singer.
Playbill featuring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in Michael Todd's "Hot Mikado"
Chicago: Auditorium Theatre, 1940. Softcover. 16 pp. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" with black and white photos and ads with a full-page black and white photo of Bill Robison on the front cover. Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Mikado and first produced in 1939, the show is.....
Jazz Anecdotes
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Softcover. 350 pp. with Index.
Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz, The Bebop Years
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Hardcover. 8vo. 320 pp. With Discography, Notes, Index. Sequel to Drummin' MenÉthe Swing Years.
Charlie Parker: His Music and Life
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996. Hardcover. 8vo. 304 pp. Black and white photos, Notes, Index. Index. The Michigan American Music Series.
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.....
A Record Store Window Advertisement for Kool and the Gang's 1982 Album "As One"
NP: De Lite, 1982. Softbound. 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.....
Arn't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
New York: Norton, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
I Like Jazz: A First Book About Jazz for Swinging People
New York: Macmillan, 1964. Hardcover. 118 pp. with black and white photos. The author tells why he loves jazz and how he come to love it. Includes a great deal of the history of Jazz and suggestions of records to listen to [Publisher's Weekly].
Porgy: The Charleston Edition
Charleston: Tradd Street Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
Music is My Mistress
Doubleday: Garden City, 1973. Hardcover. 4to. 523 pp. Illustrated. intertextual black and white illustration throughout.
The Music of Black Americans: A History
Norton: New York, 1983. Softcover. Comprehensive coverage of black American music, from the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies to contemporary developments in African-American history.
You Just Fight for Your Life
New York: Praeger, 1990. Hardcover. 282 pp. with Appendices, Notes and Index.
Race Riots New York 1964
New York: Crowell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Somewhat worn dust jacket. Uncommon.
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Black Hollywood: From 1970 to Today [Citadel Film Series]
New York: Citidel, 1993. Softcover. 223 pp. Illustrated with black and white photos.
The Treasury of Negro Spirituals
Verplanck: Emerson, 1982. Hardcover. 125 pp. First American Printing.
The Blues is a Feeling : Voices & Visions of African-American Blues Musicians
Mt. Horeb: Face to Face Books, 1998. Hardcover. 60 pp. and 90 b&w photographs. Photographs and Interviews by James Fraher. Preface by James Fraher. Introduction by William H. Wiggins, Jr. Index of Portraits and Background Photographs.
I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Hardcover. 304 pp. Fine with b&w photos throughout, Notes, Bibliography.
Mansfield Theatre Program for the Broadway play "The Green Pastures"
New York: New York Theatre Program Corporation, 1928. Softcover. Very sharp copy of the Playbill for this Pulitzer Prize winning play with the first all black Broadway cast. Scarce in this condition.
Fats Waller
New York: Macmillan, 1977. Hardcover. 255 pp. With black and white photos, Index and Discography. The full story of his life and career is generally recognized as the best work ever written on Fats Waller, the famous stride pianist known for his humorous performance style and for composing such jazz.....
Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories & Memorabilia
London: Welbeck, 2020. Hardcover. 144 pp. Illustrated biography of the artist and his music, told through the many items of facsimile memorabilia, documents, posters and concert tickets that are reproduced on the page.
Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage and Criticism from 1919 to Now
New York: Pantheon, 1997. Hardcover. Thick octavo. 1,068 pp. Here, Gottlieb, former president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and former editor of The New Yorker, brings together more than 150 excerpts from books, journals, magazines, and newspapers, creating an anthology of essays about jazz life and music.