Description: First edition, 2007. 147 pages, hardcover with gloss jacket. 9 inches wide by 11.5 inches tall.

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Excerpt: Phil Schaap's "Appreciation" – "Norman Saks is a world class representative of the Jazz collector, and endangered species whose world is disappearing. A new generation and a new system of Jazz collecting have emerged. Its memers consider anonymous and unverified postings on the Internet as discographical gospel. They store this information and the music they attach to it in small, often extremely small, boxes; and elieve they own and know it all. Their new world, from the perspectives of Jazz scholarship and Jazz listening, is an inferior one and makes the publication of the artifacts and documents in Saks' collection, at this moment, an important, even vital, issue. The illustration that someone, currently living, can go out and find – I mean discover! – originals: documents that demonstrate truth and can expand Jazz knowledge and enjoyment is a profound lesson. That Normak Saks, in assembling his collection, can teach that lesson is a tribute to the science of discography, a superior methodology of music research that started with Jazz, and Saks' expertise in that science. Norman Saks has gone past the sequences of dates and master numbers to the documents that are the roots of such lists. Behold."

Reviews: BirdLives.co.uk said – "Anyone interested in Charlie Parker will find this an important publication, not least for the quality and quantity of Parker and jazz related ephemera but it also has a much broader appeal for as a record of an era, a 'zeitgeist' document, capturing the spirit of the most popular jazz age. Norman has spent many years avidly collecting Charlie Parker memorabilia. Most of the Charlie Parker items were gathered methodically, before the internet, through exhaustive searches, and equally exhaustive negotiations. His determination to gather this collection together is a credit not only to the memory of Charlie Parker, but to Norman himself. He has become the custodian of all things Charlie Parker. If it were not for Norman, many of the items recorded in the book may have been lost for ever. Highlights include the images of Charlie's copy of Bird With Strings, where Charlie has sketched what he thought would make a better cover. Another is the image of the only record of Charlie using 'Christopher' as his middle name on an offical document. The book is filled with images that bring to life the Charlie Parker age."