New York: Vanguard, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'Novel of a jazzman' - set in New Orleans, Europe and elsewhere in the 1920's to 1950's. Dustjacket blurb by Louis Armstrong.

New York: Delacorte, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Published shortly after his death, this book by the rock musician and icon of the 60s looks at his early life on Harrington Street in San Francisco, where he went to live with his maternal grandparents after the death of his father at age 5. Garcia calls this "auto-apocrypha, full of my anecdoubts." Includes notes from Deborah Garcia and from the publisher. Very colorfully illustrated, square format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-385313535.

London: Eddison Press, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first printing of this classic work on the blues which was revised and reissued as a trade paperback in 1996. Illustrated with many photographs, index, bibliography. 178 pgs.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1996). A title in Publications of the Early Music Institute series. "Luis MilAn (1536-1561) was a lutenist, singer, composer, and poet. His collection of lute tablatures, El Maestro, is the first book of instrumental music known to have been printed in Spain. Gasser discusses Milan's attention to modality, his use of meter, and the ornamentation in his songs and fantasas." Illustrated. Includes extensive notes, bibliography, incipits, and index. vi, 222 pp. ISBN: 0-253210186.

London: Omnibus Press, 1988. First edition - Part of the "Jazz Life and Times" series. Photographs, index, slightly oversized in glossy illustrated wrappers.

London: Omnibus Press, 1988. First edition - Part of the "Jazz Life and Times" series. Photographs, index, slightly oversized in glossy illustrated wrappers.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed biography of the clarinet player and band leader who became known as the 'King of Swing,' one which documents his career against the Depression era and the changing social milieu and popular music of the time. Goodman was the first to hire black musicians for a white band (Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton) and many other musicians, including Gene Krupa, Harry James and Peggy Lee, got their start in his band. . Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs; extensive notes, index. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-195052781.

New York: Collier Books, (1974). Includes chapters on some of the great figures who defined jazz for the world: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher Henderson. Photographs. Suggested reading and a discography at the end of each chapter. 255 pp.

Winona Lake IN: Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Co, (c. 1939). Arrangements in 4 parts with accompaniment. Introduction by Hall in which he explains the use of dialect and emphasizes that "In singing these songs dialect must not be overdone" as well as the fact that these should be sung a capella. Foreword by Peter Dykema. Approx 10 inches tall by 7 inches. 59 pp.

New York: Warner, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Hampton's life: eight decades of a great jazz musician, who fought segregation during his rise to fame. Includes glimpses of other celebrities such as Dinah Washington. With extensive discography.

New York: Harper Collins, (1993). Traces the history from the early slave music, through the Black Renaissance, the rise of jazz and rhythm and blues to the contemporary scene by focusing on musicians in each era. Illustrated with photographs. Selected bibliography, index. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-06-446136X.

London: Novello and Company, Limited. n.d. (ca 1900.). Hardcover first edition - Scores for many pieces, including Wedding Procession, Humoreske and much more. Large format, bound in decorative brown cloth binding with blank spine & cover lettered & tooled in black & gilt. 148 pp.

New York: Exposition Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegees alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp.

New York: Exposition Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegee's alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp.

New York: Public Affairs, (1999). First edition - Jackson's memoir of growing up musical, from his impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, London's punk and new wave scenes, and the brink of stardom. "An intelligent and passionate book about music, the creative process and coming of age as an artist." xiv, 277 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1997) dj. Hardcover - A study by this author/composer about "how music captivates us so completely and why we form such powerful connections to it.. . Jourdain draws on a variety of fields including science, psychology, and philosophy. He uses music from around the world to show how melodies work, how rhythm differs from beat, and why some sounds are beautiful and others ugly." Glossary, notes, bibliography, index. xvii, 377 pp. ISBN: 0-688142362.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The ultimate critical biography of the King of Pop: a panoramic, vivid, and incisive portrait of Michael Jackson that explores and celebrates his influence in music, dance, and popular culture" Drawing on more than 400 interviews, this puts his long career into perspective. Photographs, notes, index. 438 pp. ISBN: 978-1476730370.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. Hardcover first edition - A look at the summer of 1964 - the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election - and the song, written by Marvin Gaye and recorded by Martha and the Vandelles, which took on many meanings as the country changed. The NY Times review commented about this book "For all the seriousness of Kurlanskys cultural entanglements, it is nevertheless a delight to experience his sophisticated sense of play and, at times, his outright wicked sense of humor. Illustrated with photographs. Includes a time line of 1964, a discography of the song, bibliography and index. xxi, 263 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487224.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. This book takes a look at racism in the past and present of jazz- both the white racism that for decades ghettoized black musicians and their music, and what Lees demostrates is an increasingly strident prejudice of some black musicians against their white counterparts.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on several jazz musicians, including Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Red Rodney and many others - but also a book which deals with racism and its affect on jazz, in all of its different facets.

New York: Bookman Associates, (1953). Hardcover - "The first complete study ever made of the American Federation of Musicians. The book deals not only with the life of James Caesar Petrillo but with many colorful and leading personalities of the entertainment world whose paths crossed that of the union." Frontispiece portrait. Notes, bibliography, index. 202 p

New York: Berkley, (2008.). SIGNED - A powerful - and moving - account of a chance encounter with a homeless street musician changed both the lives of Lopez, a journalist who at first saw only a column in the story, and that of the violinist. Basis for the movie of the same name with Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. Boldly SIGNED by Lopez on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 9780425226001.

New York: Putnam, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A powerful - and moving - account of a chance encounter with a homeless street musician changed both the lives of Lopez, a journalist who at first saw only a column in the story, and that of the violinist. Basis for the movie of the same name with Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. Boldly SIGNED by Lopez on the title page. 273 pp. ISBN: 9780399155062.

New York: Putnam, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful - and moving - account of a chance encounter with a homeless street musician changed both the lives of Lopez, a journalist who at first saw only a column in the story, and that of the violinist. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the movie of the same name with Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0399155062.

New York: Quill, 1983. First edition - A compilation of extended interviews with 27 major jazz pianists, such as Horace Silver, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Marian McPartland, Cecil Taylor, Mary Lou Williams, George Shearing, Sun Ra, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and others. Includes photographs by Veryl Oakland, a historical survey and individual introductions to each pianist, and a selected discography for each. In addition, there is an appendix with a discography for other musicians mentioned in part one - the survey of jazz pianists and their traditions. Index. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-688-019218.

New York: Putnam, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which captures "the turbulent world of the psychedelic 1960s, as a cofounder of The Doors describes the origins of the legendary rock group and their music, details their nihilistic lifestyle, and offers insight into the life and times of rock icon Jim Morrison. . . an insider's view of the Doors' brief, brilliant history, from Manzarek and Morrison's friendship at UCLA to the legendary Sunset Strip performances, from their string of groundbreaking hit albums to Morrison's tragic demise in 1971." Photographs. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-399143998.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985. First edition - The definitive biography of this influential Jamaican musician based on interviews with those close to Marley and with Marley himself, including an account of his final concert in Pittsburg just months before his tragic death from cancer in spring of 1981. Bob Marley made "reggae music and his own message of rebellion, self-determination, and the power of the individual a spiritual and political force throughout the world." INSCRIBED by the author inside the front cover and dated in the year of publication, and uncommon thus. Illustrated with photographs, bibliography, index. x, 276 pp. ISBN: 0-385179561.

New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2016). Hardcover first edition - McBride, a National Book Award winning author, and a musician himself "goes in search of the 'real' James Brown after receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth. His surprising journey illuminates not only our understanding of this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated soul genius but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Browns legacy." Named one of the best books of the tear by NPR, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 232 pp. ISBN: 978-0812993509.