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A Pictorial History of Jazz: People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz
by Keepnews, Orrin & Bill Grauer, Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Reading Copy/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, 1955. Somewhat better than a reading copy of this 282 page volume. Lightly toned pages with tanned edges; illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, some full page. Light soil or light foxing to inside covers; covers spotted; edgewear and wear to tip and head and heel of spine. Owner's stamp on fep. Shaken. Contents include: New Orleans Joys; Original Dixieland One Step; Stockyard Strut; Dippermouth; Mr. Jelly Lord; Yonder Comes the Blues; Pitchin' Boogie; Friars Point Shuffle; Bixology; Stomple Off, Let's Go; Harlem Strut; Cotton Club Stomp; Kansas City Shuffle; more. Artists include: Stan Kenton; Milt Jackson; Jim Robinson; New Orleans Band; Don Ewell; Baby Dodds; Mel Powell; Vido Musso; Benny Goodman; Charleston Chasers; Charlie Irvis; Rex Stewart; Tom Dorsey; Blind Boy Fuller; Ida May Mack; Roosevelt Sykes; Louis Armstrong, many many more. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001186
- Title
- A Pictorial History of Jazz: People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz
- Author
- Keepnews, Orrin & Bill Grauer, Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Reading Copy
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- jazz; music; New Orleans; Bill Grauer Jr. ; Harlem; Kansas city; Wing; illustrated;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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Newton, Massachusetts
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- Spine
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- Reading Copy
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
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