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  • Feather, Leonard.
    THE PLEASURES OF JAZZ: Leading Performers on Their Lives, Their Music, Their Contemporaries.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Horizon Press, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes an overview of 20 years of jazz music and interviews or articles on 45 jazz musicians ranging from big bandsmen to combo leaders to vocalists, from the old masters to innovators. Included are Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Cleo Laine, John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, Oliver Nelson, Sarah Vaughan, Eubie Blake, Earl Hines, Donald Byrd, Barney Bigard, Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd, Yusef Lateef, Marian McPartland, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones and more. Introduction by Benny Carter, illustrated with 27 photographs. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-818012145.

    Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (chip to top edge of dj, creasing to front flap, edges)

    Book ID: 32850
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  • Lees, Gene.
    YOU CAN'T STEAL A GIFT: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat.

    Edition: First printing.

    New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dustjacket: 'A jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black musicians - Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton and Nat 'King' Cole. Equal parts memoir, oral history and commentary, each of the main chapters is a minibiography weaving together conversations with the musicians and their families, friends and associates over a period of several decades... Lee begins the book with an essay that tells of his introduction to the world of jazz and his reaction to racism in the United States when he emigrated from Canada in 1955. The underlying theme in his book is the impact racism had on the four musicians'…

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    New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dustjacket: 'A jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black musicians - Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton and Nat 'King' Cole. Equal parts memoir, oral history and commentary, each of the main chapters is a minibiography weaving together conversations with the musicians and their families, friends and associates over a period of several decades... Lee begins the book with an essay that tells of his introduction to the world of jazz and his reaction to racism in the United States when he emigrated from Canada in 1955. The underlying theme in his book is the impact racism had on the four musicians' lives and careers and their determination to overcome it.' Foreword by Nat Hentoff. Photographs, index. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-300-089651.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 30103
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