Tenor Master & Soloist on DIZZY's classic "Manteca!"

As the table of contents reveal, the 1962 (7th) Annual contains informative essays on still potent Jazz concerns!

"This fascinating collection is a delight for anyone remotely interested in jazz history." - The Jazz Record Center

1964 Oak Publications softcover edition (IN ENGLISH) with the first publication of Paul Oliver's essays and drawings

Includes Poster, reviews, clippings, and more!

NY Post December 4, 1969: Jazz at The Roosevelt Grill ad and article

A detailed historical analysis of early female blues singers and their role in transforming a folk art into a popular music in the first half of the 20th century. This first-edition copy includes rare, unique photographs of blues' leading ladies.

PURE JAZZ bills itself as the magazine of African American Classical Music—it is a rigorous and entertaining study of Jazz in all its forms, focusing predominantly on recent activities.

This laminated card is from the August 14, 2009 funeral of the great LAWRENCE LUCIE, the ryhthm guitarist extraordinaire and last surviving member of Billie Holiday's Swing Era recordings!

This 78rpm record is the landmark first recording under the name of In The Mood: Edgar Hayes's In The Mood on Decca 1882, the original issue!

Roger Pryor Dodge was one of the first serious Jazz critics—this volume collects his writings from 1929-1958. An essential tome of writings on Jazz!!

THE essential biography and study of Jazz's first great maestro Jelly Roll Morton by the famous musicologist Alan Lomax.

MAX ROACH & RANDY WESTON: NY Times feature article on BeBop Reunion, July 27, 1990!

From 6/13/1974, this magazine is testament to the widespread love of The Maestro from less than a month after his passing!

STUBS was a very helpful guide for the best seats in New York City theaters, music halls and stadiums. An historic book for those interested in New York theater, and still helpful today!

Featuring Art Blakey, Leonard Gaskin, Jane Monheit, et. al!

Featuring tenor player Herbie Fields on the cover, and Louis Armstrong's thoughts on BeBop with the headline article, Louis pops off on bop!

Oxford University Press, 1999

This issue of Coda Magazine—the great Canadian Jazz periodical—features a cover story on the drummer Dannie Richmond, one of Charles Mingus' closest collaborators!

We offer here the very first issue of The Merritt Rag, featuring Duke Ellington on the cover, and unique information on Fats Waller transcriptions and Benny Goodman alternate takes!

In Miles The Autobiography, Miles Davis talks frankly and openly about the many challenges and triumphs of his career, discussing, above all, music and musicians, including the legends he has played with over the years

OKEH & VOCALION August 1940 Catalogue: Transitional issue - HORACE HENDERSON, GENE KRUPA, and more!

This back issue of BASS PLAYER magazine (2/2006) has a focus on New Orleans music in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina!

Garry recorded w/Mingus & guitarist ARV GARRISON recorded w/BIRD

Rare photos, commentary, etc…!

Program from the funeral of bebop piano legend Walter Bishop Jr. A longtime member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and a frequent collaborator with such stars as Bird, Miles, and Sonny Rollins, Bishop was a genuine giant of the bebop era.

With Bop Apocalypse, Martin Torgoff connects the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the first drug laws, Louis Armstrong, Mezz Mezzrow, Harry Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, swing, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, the Savoy Ballroom, Reefer Madness

The Guitar Player October 1980 issue features a cover article on rock and fusion musician Jeff Beck, plus an article on Jazz guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson!

THE GERSHWIN YEARS is the definitive biography of the Gershwin brothers and a lavishly illustrated chronicle of the era their music and lyrics embodied.

SHOOT ME WHILE I'M HAPPY by Jane Goldberg, 1st Edition, Paperback, no DVD

74th Birthday Celebration, 2001, SIGNED!

FIRST EDITION, 2003

Featuring images by William Claxton, et. al.

Chasin' the Trane is a revealing and noble portrait of one of the most complicated and elusive figures in Jazz and American culture at large.

LETTERS FROM YEYITO is a captivating memoir from the beloved Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and fourteen-time Grammy winner, PAQUITO D’RIVERA!

The November 1996 edition of the WKCR Program Guide, featuring a number of rare and unique jazz articles as well as a complete discography of bassist David Izenzon, who is noted for his work with Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins and Archie Shepp.

July 1st - 6th 1979. Comprehensive festival handbook and discography, compiled by Bill Goldberg!

Life Magazine and Russ Dantzler acknowledge Walter Schaap’s help in getting the remaining musicians to the Harlem Stoop to reprise the famous 1958 Esquire photo!

This 2002 edition; may have been Jimmy Knepper's last performance, came very late in Carrie Smith's career, and Phil Schaap spoke at the event (available signed and/or personalized)!

A program and information booklet from the 1998 Frank Sinatra Conference at Hofstra University. Included in these documents are several otherwise-unpublished articles and images pertaining to the legendary crooner.

The American Jazz Review is a RARE publication that had a short run in the Swing Era. We offer two issues featuring articles on Eddie Condon, Hazel Scott, et. al!

This compelling work tells the full story behind one of the music industry's greatest and most prolific figures. Quincy Jones relates the milestone events of his five decades in the business with a tone that is equally casual and captivating.

February 1952 issue of the international Jazz magazine PLAYBACK.

featuring drummer RAY MCKINLEY

Depression Era Jazz & Blues: ADRIAN ROLLINI, JOE VENUTI, MEMPHIS MINNIE, JOSH WHITE, and more!

Discover the one and only "Little Jazz," Roy Eldridge!!!! Originally running from January 14-19, 1978, this WKCR Festival payed tribute to one of the greatest trumpeters in jazz's history. THIS IS THE VERY LAST COPY of the 3rd Printing

translated by Noel Burch

The Fall 1977 issue (Vol. 2, No. 1) of JAZZ MAGAZINE features an article by the Jazz historian Dan Morgenstern on the first 60 years of recorded Jazz, an extensive story on Art Pepper, an memoir by Paul Desmond and an interview with keyboardist Josef Zawi

Music, Records, and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa

Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans is a hugely important volume but it's also just about as entertaining a book on Jazz that has ever been written!

The June 10, 1971 issue of Down Beat magazine was dedicated to Masters of the Jazz Guitar and includes articles on such masters as Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell and Shuggie Otis!

OKeh, Vocalion, and Columbia Records bundle, 1940-42: HORACE HENDERSON, BENNY GOODMAN, CAB CALLOWAY, and more!

Also recorded with KING OLIVER - One-of-a-kind!

The 2012 Mosaic annual features Charles Mingus while the 2013 annual features Woody Shaw, both premiere releases for the label in those years.

There was plenty of Jazz in the January 22, 1959 issue of Downbeat magazine! The marvelous clarinetist Buddy DeFranco got a cover story featuring a photo of him with his son and wife, and an extensive article on his music up to that point.

The Bielefelder Katalog is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference book on Jazz recordings available in Germany.

THE JAZZ RECORD No. 34, July 1945 Sidney DeParis cover

This all but seventy year old issue of the 'Jazz bible', Downbeat magazine, features trumpeter, Charlie Spivak (at the piano), and pianist, Elliott Lawrence, (on trumpet) on the cover.

This February 1980 issue features a cover article on the great Freddie Waits! Waits was a talented and influential drummer who played in Max Roach's all percussion ensemble M'Boom.

ULTRA RARE Swing Era Publication, from TOMMY DORSEY, THE BANDSTAND, May & June 1939!

Rare publication from the golden age of Jazz!

A LaRue Brown Watson entity (CLIFFORD BROWN'S widow), Charles Delaunay Obit, Unique essays, interviews, and more!

W.W. Norton & Co., 2010

We offer the entire New York Post of June 15, 1996, telling of Ella Fitzgerald's passing with the huge headline "Misty Over Ella."

Downbeat magazines April 12, 1973 issue is all about big bands in their more modern iterations.

The Summer 1977 issue of the fabled Jazz Magazine features a huge cover story on Dexter Gordon as well as an article on Charlie Parker and an interview with Paul Bley!

Newsletter for The Merritt Record Society, a membership-based record label that issued extremely rare and important records in high quality LP pressings!

Hard Cover 1st Edition, 1986!

With the exception of a live version of Mel Torme singing "The Christmas Song" in 1988, all of the selections on this Christmas CD were recorded by various Concord artists from 1995-96!

Written by Phil Schaap and Ben Young, with Matt Herman, this Deluxe FIRST EDITION features a complete discography and a treasure trove of never before published photos. SIGNED BY LAWRENCE LUCIE!

"New York's Jazz bible"

The Summer 1996 issue of Aché magazine features a cover story on Grammy winning composer and bandleader, Oscar Hernandez!

The lost periodical: JAZZ, Volume One / Number One June 1942!

Jack Reilly is one of the foremost jazz pianists and educators in the Tri-State area. This rare press kit contains a wealth of unique information on Reilly, as well as his handwritten letter to Phil Schaap.

Published in 1959, THE ART OF JAZZ is a tremendous resource: a collection of essays first published in small magazines and other obscure sources. This is a1st edition, VERY RARE!!!

Hard Cover 1st Edition, 1995!

The Jazz Session tended to cover the earlier styles of Jazz as shown by the cover featuring the veteran clarinetist Volly (Voltaire) De Faut! It's a valuable and insightful item from a bygone era!

For a comprehensive introduction and overview of the titan John Coltrane look no further!

1970s Jazz fiction

The November 1996 FI magazine features tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman on the cover as well as an extensive interview with Redman and an article on legendary Jazz photography Francis Wolff.

This June 1978 issue of MUSICIAN & RECORDING WORLD magazine features Free Jazz guitarist Allan Holdsworth!

JAZZ HOT: In French, #605, November 2003!

SWING: June 1940 (V2 N12), w/ an article written by DUKE ELLINGTON

These programs are from Mostly Mozart's first year under that name!

The late Carline Ray (b. 4/21/1925 - d. 7/18/2013) Played at the Savoy with Erskine Hawkins
Played at Sweet Basil's with Doc Cheatham
Performed with Mary Lou Williams
Performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Swing University Profes

The famed Dizzy Gillespie red chair was cut up and "sold" to donors who helped save WKCR in 2007. This booklet is one of the few remaining chances to own a piece of WKCR history!

The spring 1980 issue (Vol. 4, No. 2) of JAZZ MAGAZINE, the final issue, features an interview with Sonny Rollins (also featured on the cover)!

This bundle includes the original paperback edition of "In Search of Buddy Bolden" and the rarer, earlier and shorter pamphlet "Finding Buddy Bolden."

"THE WAX WORKS" is an early and comprehensive Duke Ellington discography compiled by the late and great BENNY AASLAND.

JOHN COLTRANE Birthday Broadcast feature for WKCR's FINAL program guide.

Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, Harry James and more!

Dizzy's favorite restaurant was Baumgart's Café in Englewood, New Jersey! We offer a packet of postcards, menus, chopsticks, matchbook, etc.

With foreword by BRENDA LEE

Jazz Review: MULLIGAN + Blind Lemon Jefferson, and "What Is A Jazz Singer?," Vol. 2 No. 7, August 1959!

May 1985's Downbeat magazine has a striking color photo of Stanely Turrentine on the cover as well as an extensive story on Turrentine's life and music up to 1985!

MISS PEGGY LEE tells the story of Norma Deloris Egstrom, a shy, abused little girl from Jamestown, North Dakota, who took up the name Peggy Lee, and went on to international renown as a superstar singer.

DECCA Records: Gems of Jazz volume 5, booklet; CONDON, MCPARTLAND, NOONE, & more!

With photographs of legendary performers, a discography, and reading list, this book serves as a full introduction for those first exploring the world of jazz.

The definitive starter book for Jazz music, written by the founder of the Institute of Jazz Studies

This 8x10 black and white promotional photo features Pizzarelli in mid performance!

FIRST EDITION of the first UK publication, hardcover with dust jacket

Issue of Jazz Hot from January 1974 features a portrait of Kenny Clarke and an extensive article on Bill Dixon, the second in a series of articles on him!

Featuring HAROLD CUMBERBATCH, Richard Williams, et. al!

Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Lightnin' Hopkins, and more, Vol. 3, No. 1!

Frank Sinatra feature!

Celebrate the legacy of Milt Jackson with these unique items! You get the entire New York Times from October 11, 1999 and the Down Beat memorial issue!

One of the foremost and longest-running Jazz periodicals, JAZZ JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997—the November issue features writing on Jimmy Smith and Harry Klein!

Issues of the short-lived but fascinating periodical of the Swing Era, The Jazz Session, are exceedingly rare—they provide photos, often published nowhere else, contemporary reviews and articles on Jazz's earlier styles!

This issue, Summer 1979, is Vol. 3, No. 3. It features an article on Clark Terry, a cover story on vibraphonist Gary Burton, a story about Buddy Tate, and research by Jazz scholars Vincent Pelote and Dan Morgenstern!

This is a very important issue of Jazz's primary periodical as it documents, contemporaneously (!), the pivotal month to Jazz's economic slide at the end of the Swing Era.

NYC/JAZZ is a blast from the past, offering a revealing and enjoyable look at the New York Jazz of years gone by!

Bundle of Catalogues from COLUMBIA RECORDS: 1942 Catalogue, "Music A La Carte," Masterworks May 1942, and more, w/ GOODMAN, JAMES, at. al!

DECCA RECORDS Album Booklet: Blue Skies; CROSBY, ASTAIRE!

1997 Photo Jazz Calendar with photo of Phil Schaap and Clark Terry by Norm Harris

Rare original publication, WITH CD!

The Winter 1979 issue was the second to last issue of Jazz magazine. It features a cover story on ART BLAKEY!

Held at the West End Collegiate Church, and St. Peters - the Jazz Church

WKCR program guide featuring a cover story on Bird by Phil Schaap, plus a wealth of exclusive Ella Fitzgerald material.

Jules Schwerin, who produced Mahalia Jackson's grammy-winning album, How I Got Over, wrote this excellent biography of Jackson in 1992.

This issue from October 2002 features a portrait of trumpeters Jon Faddis and Roy Hargrove!

Articles on Ron Carter & Milt Hinton, Benny Goodman, Mercer Ellington, and much more!

JAZZBEAT: 1991-2003, 9 issues; articles, photos, exclusive content and more!

Janet Coleman and prolific author Young, both friends of Charles Mingus, here present an unconventional, non-chronological, anecdotal account of the personality and contributions of the great jazz bassist and composer.

through September '20 -early JAZZ & Pop!

After 31 years of this 'Jazz bible' periodical's existence, we offer the end of year Poll Winners issue for the year that ORNETTE COLEMAN was elected Jazz Musician of the Year.

hardcover, FIRST EDITION, w/dust jacket!

TWO original Capitol LPs by the great vocalist KAY STARR—Movin' and The Hits of Kay Starr!

Published by the heroic Sidney Bechet Society, the Bechet Quarterly offers articles on the work of the great Sidney Bechet as well as updates on all that is being done to share Bechet's music and educate the world about his art.

August 1949 issue of the International Jazz Magazine, Playback! Original!

RARE! Optional signing and personalization by Phil Schaap, please specify in order notes. A chronological listing of Louis Armstrong's recordings as heard on WKCR's famous 1980 festival.

Jan Reid's 1974 book THE IMPROBABLE RISE OF REDNECK ROCK vividly accounts the history of a music scene in Austin, Texas that fed off country rock, western swing, blues, and bluegrass to create something all its own.

May 21, 1989

1997 New York Times Sunday Magazine containing a story on MAX ROACH (with a great color photo): a testament to Roach's longevity and continued vibrancy as an artist!

MAX ROACH was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Columbia University, on May 16, 2001. The occasion was noted in the Columbia school paper, COLUMBIA SPECTATOR, in the May 23, 2001 Graduation Issue, V CXXV N. 67!

As the magazine's name states, Strictly Jazz offered coverage of all things Jazz, particularly recent happenings.

Lots of photos, reviews, and much more!

This bundle gets you 5 issues of the famously high quality Journal of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (IAJRC)!

The January 1980 Musician Magazine (no. 22) features Stevie Wonder on the cover and an extensive survey of rock and Jazz highlights of the 1970s including the winners of a readers poll on Jazz!

Downbeat Magazine's October 15, 1942 issue features not only a cover image of bandleader Johnny Richards, but, more famously, an extensive and early interview of the blues legend T-Bone Walker!

These four booklets honor Maxine Sullivan, Doc Cheatham, Milt Hinton, and Panama Francis with essays and historic photos.

For a limited time: Phil can sign and personalize for the holidays! "This fascinating collection is a delight for anyone remotely interested in jazz history." - The Jazz Record Center

The August 1996 edition of the WKCR Program Guide, curated by Sharif Abdus Salaam. Available for signing and personalization by Salaam and Phil Schaap.

Kenny Dorham, Art Tatum, Baby Dodds, and more!

Straight from the Swing Era, this November 3, 1948 issue of Downbeat magazine features famed drummer Gene Krupa and singer Anita O'Day on the cover!

It's a smallish acknowledgment BUT John Coltrane makes a very early appearance in print in the listings about Dizzy Gillespie's personnel and the coverage of Diz giving up the Big Band and going towards a combo.

October 1981 JAZZ LINE (Vol. 2 No. 4) WITH Tal Farlow Cover Story

Written by the late Edward Berger, his father Morroe Berger & James Patrick. This extraordinary two-volume work was hailed as milestone of jazz literature when it was originally published in 1982.

An impressive volume of rare (in some cases never before or since published) photos of Jazz artists!! Exceedingly rare! Only four left!!

Reviews, articles, photos, and much more!

PANAMA FRANCIS PRESS KITS 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2001 Funeral Program

Unique German Jazz catalogue

Printed books continue to be the primary source of Jazz information, and Dan Morgenstern's THE JAZZ STORY is a touchstone example of a brief yet accurate Jazz volume!

Discover the one and only "Little Jazz," Roy Eldridge with this R.E. Festival Handbook and Discography! Originally running from January 14-19, 1978, this WKCR Festival payed tribute to one of the greatest trumpeters in Jazz.

Hardcover, FIRST EDITION!

In Duke, Jazz scholar and New York Times journalist, Terry Teachout crafts a complete portrait of Duke Ellington and his story, scars and all.

HOT JAZZ: Fletcher Henderson, Red Nichols and more!

This exceedingly rare issue of Columbia College Today is dedicated to the rich history of WKCR. It features a VERY obscure live recording from a 1941 date at Minton's featuring Thelonious Monk.

FIRST EDITION paperback, signed to "Walter Schaap," by the author!

Music Minus One (MMO) is a music play-along recording company that has included in its legendary teaching recordings such masters as Stan Getz, Hank Jones and Max Roach.

The Minnesota-based arts organization ARTS MIDWEST put out extensive photos, bios, discographies, AND a special record of MARCUS BELGRAVE; ROY BROOKS; RUSTY BRYANT; and ROSCOE MITCHELL in the 1991 JAZZ MASTERS JOURNAL!

Phillippe Bas-Raberin's Le Blues Moderne 1945-1973 is a comprehensive study of the blues from the post-war era and beyond. IN FRENCH

Ragtime master & composer of "I'm Just Wild About Harry:" February 6th and 8th 1979, Baltimore Sun Articles, Blake's Hometown!

FRIST EDITION, Hardcover

FIRST EDITION of the first UK publication, hardcover with dust jacket, no signatures.

Rare British publication from the Swing Era, edited by Edgar Jackson!

From a half-century ago comes a most famous issue of the 'Jazz bible' periodical as Miles Davis offers pointed statements about the scene.

Feat. Stan Kenton, Nat King Cole, et. al!

JAZZ NOTES Numbers: Fall 1992, 4/4, 5/1, 5/2 (1992 - 1993), w/ BILL GOTTLIEB interview!

RCA VICTOR RED SEAL bundle: Jan., May, & June 1941, Sept., 1947, and RCA Record Review 1947!

Discover the genius of one of the founding fathers of Country music Hank Williams, with Colin Escott's exceptional biography. Little Brown and Co. 1995

LA JAZZ INSTITUTE BEBOP CELEBRATION, May 24-27, 2001, DIZZY!

New York Times supplement

This issue of JAZZ IMPROV (Winter 2005, Vol. 5 No. 2) features multiple articles on the late, great Phil Woods including a 36 page bio-discography and an exclusive interview!

Exceedingly rare WKCR program guide from November 1987, featuring exclusive articles by Phil Schaap on jazz icons Teddy Wilson and Lester Young.

David Fulmer's Valentine St. Cyr is a creole detective in New Orleans circa 1907 who traverses all the vices of Storyville at the time of Jazz's birth.

These two magazines from 2007 (February and June) include articles on such prominent figures in Jazz as Lee Konitz, Frank Foster and Paquito D'Rivera!

The New York Chapter of The Duke Ellington Society still offers special concerts, but its Galas in the last century were always spectaculars with unique music.

This, Summer 1976, is Vol. 1, No. 1, the very first issue of the great but short-lived periodical, Jazz Magazine!

DECCA Records Booklet for the Classic Album set "NEW ORLEANS JAZZ:" ARMSTRONG, NOONE, RED ALLEN & More!

In this engaging book, Will Romano tells the real story of Jimmy Reed for the first time!

3 pages. By Wilma Dobie, legendary director of the famed Jazz events at the Overseas Press Club, artistic director Earl Hines.

EUBIE BLAKE 98th Birthday Party Program

Incredible reprinted supplements of discographical listings including check lists, identification charts, and catalogue reprints.

DECCA RECORDS Booklet: Gems of Jazz; HENDERSON, HAWKINS, TEDDY WILSON & more!

Two-part cover story on "The Style of JOHN COLTRANE," feat. in the Oct. and Nov. issues of The Jazz Review!

A brilliant compilation of over one hundred articles on the prolific composer and bandleader by many of the leading voices in jazz. Also features interviews with Duke and several of his personal writings.

The celebrated protégé of the renowned Eubie Blake, Terry Waldo captures the history, personalities, and vibrancy of Ragtime like none other can.

The spring 1977 issue (Vol. 1, No. 3) of JAZZ MAGAZINE was an all-star issue featuring stories on Barry Harris, 50 years of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, two articles on Ornette Coleman, and a photo gallery of Chet Baker and Dizzy Gillespie!

"This fascinating collection is a delight for anyone remotely interested in jazz history." - The Jazz Record Center

With essays by R. Crumb, Stanley Crouch, Sarah Vowell, et. al.

An enormous work of Jazz history and scholarship, the continuation of Leonard Feather's definitive work is handled masterfully by editor Ira Gitler.

ThunderMouth Press 1988

IAJRC Journal Spring 1998

Proof copy of this stunning panorama of American roots musicians filled with great photos and first person accounts.

Maestro DUKE ELLINGTON, Saluted by the Museum of the City of New York, Program!

ads, photos, "where the bands are playing," and much more!

RCA VICTOR catalogue/booklet bundle: May 1946 catalogue, May 1941 HMV (some pages), & Sept. 1947 booklet!

"Silver Award" recipients for Jazz writing in The Columbia Review

Featuring Tony Parenti's New Orleanians

The April 20, 1951 issue of Downbeat magazine, the premiere American pop music magazine, is a jewel of reportage from the Swing Era and beyond!

September 1987 WKCR Program Guide feat. TEDDY WILSON, & Phil Schaap article!

reviews, articles, and much more!

First Edition, Hardcover, w/ slightly water-damaged dust jacket.

This most obscure and hard-to-find Jazz magazine is an early issue of a small run magazine simply called Jazz.

For a limited time: Phil can sign and personalize for the holidays! The celebrated protégé of the renowned Eubie Blake, Terry Waldo captures the history, personalities, and vibrancy of Ragtime like none other can.

Featuring a cover article on the clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, an interview with Kai Winding, a folk and blues column by John Szwed and record reviews!

Village Vanguard muralist AND brother of Lorraine Gordon!

The Unpublished Works of Herbie Nichols contains 27 masterful Compositions by the great pianist and composer!

The continuation of Jazz scholar and producer, Leonard Feather's definitive work, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ signed by editors Ira Gitler, Benny Powell & Randy Weston!!!

The final issue of Down Beat from 1952 (12/31/1952) was jam-packed with classic Jazz articles from a cover featuring Louis Armstrong!

This issue, Volume 1 Number 2 of Fall 1980, includes articles on "Creating String Band Swing," "Racsism and the Blues," and an interview with Bill Evans and Carla Bley!

Written by Robert Goffin, an acclaimed jazz historian and personal friend of Louis Armstrong, Horn of Plenty presents a view of Satchmo unmatched in its intimacy and detail.

FIRST EDITION, Hardcover with dust jacket

CAPITOL NEWS bundle: June 1946, December 1946, October 1947; KENTON, et. al!

WKCR programming guide featuring the one and only Little Jazz ROY ELDRIDGE.

HORN OF PLENTY, Robert Goffin's 1947 biography of Louis Armstrong

This 1986 letter to Walter Schaap includes a sample chapter from Charles Delaunay's autobiography TRANSLATED!!

LAST ONE!!!!! Special JAZZ Issue with 3 different covers: Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, & Bobby Hutcherson!

This issue of Jazz Hot from April 1974 features a survey of Jazz in America in 1974, plus an interview with saxophonist Andrew White and a cover story on trumpeter Hannibal (Marvin Peterson)!

Originally published as The Collectors Record Club - Jazz Journal

BARBER TO THE STARS: Sugar Ray Robinson, Louis Armstrong, ROGERS L. SIMON, Contact info!

Down Beat announces an historic moment: the Newport Jazz Festival’s move to New York.

This edition of Upbeat contains an interview with then WBGO Manager, Anna Kosof, that mentions WKCR Jazz programming.

This issue of JAZZ IMPROV features three articles on Cannonball Adderley as well as transcriptions of many of his solos and a companion CD! An incredible resource for Jazz players and enthusiasts!

This extremely rare package includes a program for New York Governor Herbert Lehman's 80th birthday celebration on March 29, 1958, as well as a 12" LP recording of the night's performances by Yip Harburg, Harold Rome, and other jazz giants.

A good condition copy of the June 1946 issue!
Besides the cover stories seen, there is an article on WOODY HERMAN written by JOHN HAMMOND

COMPLETE PAPER!

A collection of selected writings by the one and only Louis Armstrong in the form of letters, articles and unpublished chapters for an intended later autobiography. Armstrong's use of language is as honest, vivid and powerful as his trumpet playing.

One-of-a-kind!

FIRST EDITION, hardcover with dust jacket!

Rare program for the 12th annual Lester Young Memorial, which took place in New York on March 18, 1996 and featured performances and lectures by many of the foremost figures in jazz.