THIS IS A FIRST EDITION with Dust Jacket!! Published in 1959, THE ART OF JAZZ is a tremendous resource: a collection of essays first published in small magazines and other obscure sources. The essays deal with Jazz's development "from ragtime to BeBop," as the book is subtitled. This is the best of early Jazz writing compiled into one landmark volume. Writers include the New Orleans afficianado William Russell, very early Jazz writer Marshall Stearns and the late great Lawrence Gushee. 

1959 1st edition, VERY RARE!!! Some light wear on Dust Jacket (see photo)