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Waiting for Dizzy

Author(s):

Lees, Gene

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Yes

Dust Jacket Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

–

Impression:

–

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Oxford University Press

Publication Year:

1991

Publication Place:

New York, NY, USA

ISBN:

9780195056709

Book ID:

040222

Catalogue(s):

Autobiography and Biography ◇ Music and Songs

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First US edition. x, 252pp. Quarter bound in teal cloth over pale blue paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little rounded at spine ends and a couple of minor indentations on upper panel. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, not price clipped, slightly shelf worn and a little bumped on extreme edges.

A history of Jazz but at the heart of this volume are the series of warm and insightful pen portraits of the men and women who have created and developed jazz music from the 1920 onwards – Herb Ellis, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Lang, Benny Carter, Hank Jones, Emily Rennie and many more.

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