Blues Up and Down Jazz in Our Time by Piazza, Tom - 1997

New York, Ny, U. S. A.: St Martins Pr. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 031216789x . 8.75 x 0.5 x 5.75 Inches; 194 pages .

New York, NY: Saint Martin's Press, LLC. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. 031216789x .

New York: St. Martins, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 194 pages. What is dead is not jazz, but the reviewers' narrow conception of it.; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. brand new/New. DJ by Steve Snider. Unread. Brand new, black bds. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Giftworthy! 194 pgs

New York: St.Martins, 1997. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine/Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (21.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. From the Dust Jacket: "Is jazz dead? In these pages Tom Piazza takes aim at those who argue that it is... Blues Up and Down chronicles two decades of upheaval in the jazz world - and presents a persuasive argument for the music's continuing role in our culture." Among the chapters are: McCoy Tyner's Present Tense; Mary Lou Williams Keeps the Faith; Black and Tan Fantasy; Portrait of Wynton Marsalis; Keepers of the Flame; The Little Record Labels That Could; How Two Pianists Remade a Tradition; Jazz Piano's Heavyweight Champ; etc . SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/VG jacket (lightly rubbed). 8vo. x, 194pp .

NY: ST. MARTIN'S.. Fine. 1997. First Edition. Cloth. 031216789X . Fine in dj. .