The Pleasures of Jazz: Leading Performers on Their Lives, Their Music, Their Contemporaries
New York: Horizon Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #003535
Black cloth boards with silver and copper titling to spine. 200 p.p. B&W photos in-text. Sunning to top edges, bumping to spine ends, rubbing to corners. Dust jacket is price clipped and has who short tears to front cover at head and foot, bumping to edges, some light wear to extremities, blue scuff to rear. The Pleasures of Jazz will not only enlighten the new reader who is curious about this many-faceted music, but will fascinate the devotee interested to know what the artists have to say about their own lives and work, the work of others, and the current direction of jazz. Contains chapters on Barney Bigard, Red Norvo, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Eubie Blake, Earl Hines, Joe Venuti, Mercer Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Quiny Jones, and many others.
Price: $30.00