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Amburn, Ellis BUDDY HOLLY: A Biography
NY St. Martin's Press 1995 0312134460 / 9780312134464 First Edition Cloth-backed boards Fine Fine Jacket
pp: ix, 422 This comprehensive account is based on interviews with several hundred people, including Holly's widow. Frontispiece and 32pp illustrations from photos. 9.5" x 6.25".
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Amburn, Ellis PEARL: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin, A Biography
NY Warner Books (1992). 1992 0446516406 / 9780446516402 1st Edition Hardcover Dust Jacket Included Jacket
Small, private bookplate, else book and dust jacket near fine condition. 9.25" x 6" pictorial dj pp: xii, 340 Discography and index. This detailed biography of Janis is based on interviews with friends, lovers, other musicians, etc. Illustrated by 16pp illus from photographs. First Edition. Binding is orig boards.
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Balliett, Whitney JELLY ROLL, JABBO & FATS: 19 Portraits in Jazz
NY Oxford University Press 1984 0195034252 / 9780195034257 First paperback edition Printed wraps Fine
pp: x, 197. Balliett, perceptive jazz critic for The New Yorker, here writes on Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Ornette Coleman, Doc Cheatham, Erroll Garner, and 14 other musicians. 8" x 5.25".
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Bechet, Sidney TREAT IT GENTLE: An Autobiography
NY Hill and Wang 1960 First Edition Original cloth Very Good Good Jacket
pp: (ix), 245; 16pp illus from photographs. This autobiography comprises oral history, based on field recordings made by the great jazz clarinetist, and a discography of his recordings. The frontispiece portrait is by David Stone Martin. 8.5" x 5.5".
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Cessac, Catherine MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER. Translated from the French by E. Thomas Glasow.
Portland, OR Amadeus Press 1995 0931340802 / 9780931340802 First US Edition Original Cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket
558pp, indices; 16pp illustrations. 9.25" x 6.25" Charpentier, the French composer of about 550 pieces, notably oratorio and vocal music, died in 1704 and was rediscovered after World War II, nearly three centuries past his heyday. This biography traces his life, analyzes his work, and includes a complete catalog of his compositions along with an extensive bibliography.
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Chapin, Anna Alice MAKERS OF SONG
NY Dodd, Mead 1904 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good
pp: v, 339. Has chapters on: The Monk of Reading Abbey; King Thibault, the Troubadour; The Hunchback of Arras; The Rungs of the Northland; Purcell, Master of Musick; &c. Bound in green cloth with embossed and blind-stamped decorations, gilt lettering. 7.5" x 5"
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Charters, Samuel THE LEGACY OF THE BLUES: Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen
NY Da Capo 1977 0306800543 / 9780306800542 First paperback edition Pictorial wraps Very Good
192pp; text illus from photographs. First published in 1975. Discusses the blues idiom as well as the lives and music of 12 players: Big Joe Williams, J.D. Short, Bukka White, Robert Pete Williams, Juke Boy Bonner, Snooks Eaglin, Jack Dupree, Sunnyland Slim, Mighty Joe Young, Eddie Boyd, Memphis Slim, and Lightnin' Hopkins. 8.5" x 5.25".
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Chilton, John SIDNEY BECHET: The Wizard of Jazz
NY Oxford University Press 1987 0195206231 / 9780195206234 First US Edition Original boards Fine Fine Jacket Illus from Photographs
pp: xv, 331, index; 32pp illus from photographs. This is the first full-length biography of the great clarinetist, a contemporary of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and other early figures in jazz. 9.5" x 6.25".
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Claire, Vivian JUDY COLLINS
NY Flash Books (1977). 1977 082563914x / 9780825639142 1st Edition Soft cover
Pictorial stiff-paper covers and contents in very good condition. 10" x 7" 78pp Has discography. Biography of the folk superstar, then 38, her "career, accomplishments, politics, music, and life.". Illustrated by illus throughout from photos. First Edition. Binding is original wraps.
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Claire, Vivian JUDY COLLINS
NY Flash Books 1977 082563914x / 9780825639142 First Edition Pictorial wraps Very Good Illus from Photographs
78pp; frequent illus from photographs. Has discography. This biography of the folk songwriter/singer, then 38, looks at her "career, accomplishments, politics, music, and life.". 10" x 7".
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Cole, Bill JOHN COLTRANE.
NY Da Capo Press 1993 0306805308 / 9780306805301 First paperback edition Original Wraps Fine
pp: vi, 272, index; 20 illus from candid photos of musicians. 8.25" x 5.25"
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Collier, James Lincoln BENNY GOODMAN AND THE SWING ERA
NY Oxford University Press 1989 0195052781 / 9780195052787 First Edition Hardcover Fine Fine Jacket
pp: xii, 404, index; 16pp illus from photographs. This detailed biography of the King of Swing documents his rise amid the social milieu and popular music of the era. 9.5" x 6.25".
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Collins, Judy SINGING LESSONS: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing [signed]
NY Pocket Books 1998 067102745X / 9780671027452 First Edition Hardcover Fine Fine Jacket Signed
pp: xv, 346, index; 16pp illus from photographs. The legendary folksinger's second book of autobiography centers on her son's suicide, marriage to Louis Nelson,etc. Signed in purple ink, with a heart, on the title-page. 9.5" x 6.25".
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Cunningham, Agnes "Sis" and Gordon Friesen RED DUST AND BROADSIDES: A Joint Autobiography. Edited by Ronald D. Cohen. Foreword by Pete Seeger.
Amherst UMass Press 1999 1558492097 / 9781558492097 First Edition Pictorial Paper Covers Fine
pp: xiv, 371 with index; text illus from photographs. 9" x 6" Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen edited the folk-revival newsletter, "Broadside," and were first to publish the early songs of Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, and others, along with songs by Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger, and other established folkies.
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Curtis, H. Holbrook THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH SINGERS
NY Music and Musicians 1918 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good
66pp; frontispiece portrait of author, 46 full-page portraits of opera singers. Spine covering partly chipped. 9" x 5.75" Henry Holbrook Curtis, MD specialized in diseases of the pharynx and larynx, developed a regimen of vocal therapy for singers, and served as house doctor for 25 years at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Dr. Curtis read this paper at the Convention of New York State Music Teachers, June 26, 1918. The many portraits of opera singers are of particular interest. WorldCat locates only four copies of this book.
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