Bloomington: The Black Music Center/School of Music, Indiana University, 1973. Spiral_bound. [26p] 7.25x10.25 inches, monthly calendar and on facing pages lists of first, birthdays, composers etc., selected bibliography, very good, stiff card stock in spiral-bound black pictorial covers with a hole drilled at top for hanging on wall. More
Cat.No: 183393
Berkeley: Ache/La Pena Cultural Center, 1991. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed one side only very good on yellow stock. Handbill publicizing the Ache film series showing of Michelle Parkerson's 1980 53 minute film, a portrait of the legendary jazz vocalist at La Pena on Wednesday, May 29th, 1991. More
Cat.No: 237339
[Baton Rouge]: Southern University, 1966. 4p. program for the Southern University Lyceum series concert. More
Cat.No: 42289
Santa Monica: CalArts/Herb Alpert Foundation, 1996. [16p] photos of the five recipients intext, wraps. Includes two African American artists among the group that deals with gender-bending themes. More
Cat.No: 112913
Oakland: Jazz In Flight, 1993. Magazine. [24p] 8.25x10.75 program for the festival, illustrated with photos and ads, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 134627
Sacramento CA: Woodlake Inn, no date. Single 8.5x11 inch green sheet printed one side with Dixieland band illustration and schedule of players, two fold creases and some edgewear. Bands appearing are Bob Ringwald Trio, Frank Silva Combo, Grand Republic Jazz Band, Riverbank Blues Band & Sutterville Stompers. More
Cat.No: 169186
London: The Wilcox Organisation, 1950. Magazine. 20p., semi-coated alkaline paperstock throughout, printed double-column, scattered b&w photographs in the running texts, 11x8.5 inch staplebound wraps. A beat-up copy: abraded spine with half-inch split to tail, rust to staples, some edgewear, but complete, clean and handleable. Cover features clarinetist Johnny Dankworth; four..... More
Cat.No: 232878
Berkeley: Jazz Publications, 1958-59. A complete run of the magazine edited by Ralph J. Gleason, various paginations, very good in wraps but with musty odor. The first issue contains Studs Terkel's 'Big Bill's Last Session'; the second, Duke Ellington's 'A Royal View of Jazz', the third John Hammond, Samuel B...... More
Cat.No: 134643
Berkeley: Lark's Club, [195-?]. Personal business card of hostess Leola K. Lee from the jazz club on Sacarmento Street in Berkeley. Notes that television is available. Very good. More
Cat.No: 228267
Paris: Editions Atlas, 1990. Magazine. Minimally 12p. each (e.g., the one featuring Ella Fitzgerald is longer), staple-fastened slick magazines designed to accompany compact discs; paperstock uniformly glossy and alkaline, text filled with period color and b&w photography, all very good clean copies (maybe a little crimped along spinefolds), quite sound..... More
Cat.No: 244199
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New York: Mercury Record Corporation, mid-1950s. Huge folio leaf printed in two colors and folded once to make a sleeve for a 12" phonograph record: we have this printed sleeve only. It lists sixty artists, from Dinah Washington to Cannon Ball Adderly; and on another side lists many many recordings..... More
Cat.No: 229254
Munich: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1954. Paperback. 92p., second printing, unprinted 8x5 inch wraps with an adhered woodblock-style dj, jacket mildly darkened with handling and age, two ownership legends. . "Modern Negro Poetry," ...Poetry and lyrics, in English and German, many by Langston Hughes. Also Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Jean Toomer, Melvin..... More
Cat.No: 141361
Munich: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, (1953, 1958). Hardcover. 92p., later (fourth) printing, openweave black cloth with titling and panel gilt, in unclipped dj, jacket mildly rubbed with handling and age. "Modern Negro Poetry," ...Poetry and lyrics, in English and German, many by Langston Hughes. Also Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Jean Toomer, Melvin..... More
Cat.No: 198283
Cargagente, Valencia, Spain: Lamberto Albelda; Imprenta Cartonajes Suñer -Alcira, n.d. 10.5x8.5 inch orange crate label, very good, depicting an unnamed singer with an RCA microphone, his backup band perched on oranges in the background. More
Cat.No: 205795
New York: New Foundations Cooperative Press, 1949. Single issue of the journal, in staplebound pictorial wraps; 5x8 inches, touch of rust around the staples, otherwise very good. Magazine associated with the American Youth for Democracy and the Labor Youth League, youth groups of the CPUSA. Includes a Stalinist diatribe against..... More
Cat.No: 207187
Pittsburgh: A M Records, [1945?]. 4p. brochure for one of the legendary jazz trumpeter's 1940s recordings, photo of band on front wrap, long description of the band and its Mardi Gras and funerary functions inside, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 156088
N. pl. Brunswick Radio Corp. 1943. 8p., wraps. Record notes for the album. Collectors'. More
Cat.No: 30221
San Francisco: San Francisco Jazz Festival, 1990. 9.5x12 inches, folder with poster from the festival affixed front cover containing a 4 panel press release, a set of photocopied news stories and reviews from 1989 bound in plastic binder, 8-panel brochure folded to 4.25x5.5 inches, and a 32p. folded tabloid newspaper/program..... More
Cat.No: 232212
New York: Playbill, 1998. Paperback. 90p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrations, articles, cast bios etc., very good first edition program in stapled pictorial wraps. Playbill volume 98, number 12, December 1998. More
Cat.No: 168063
[Baton Rouge]: Southern University, 1966. 4p. program for the Southern University concert. More
Cat.No: 42290
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San Francisco: Qiblah Press, 1995. 39p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled printed buff raps, er, wraps. Poetry by the Bay Area jazz musician that "reflects an ardent endeavor to carry on the Islamic oratorical legacy of ... Malcolm X." - p. 29. Back cover has a...... More
Cat.No: 62891
no place: Self-published / Chill House, 2007. Trade Paperback. [44p] very good slim trade paperback in blue pictorial wraps. Bay area San Francisco native. Jazz musician. The 'Chill' of the publisher's name most definitely a jazz chill (as opposed to a horror chill). More
Cat.No: 206828
San Francisco: Self-published / Chill House, 2003. Trade Paperback. 39p., very good slim trade paperback in blue pictorial wraps. Bay area San Francisco native. Jazz musician. The 'Chill' of the publisher's name most definitely a jazz chill (as opposed to a horror chill). Mystery story written in poetry form. More
Cat.No: 234443
New York: Common Council for American Unity, 1946. 112p., staplebound journal celebrating America's multiculturalism, 6x9 inches, lightly scuffed covers with rubberstamp of a high school library. Contributors include Carey McWilliams, Elis M. Tipton on Chicano activists in San Dimas, a photo essay on jazz musicians by Elizabeth Colman, and much..... More
Cat.No: 225666
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. Hardcover. ix, 217p., dj. African American author. More
Cat.No: 46814
