Introduction by dan morgenstern (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Black cloth spine /gold boards. DJ Not Price Clipped (30.00). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Fine condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with musical notation and a few photographs. Index. First printing, with complete number row (987654321) on the copyright page. Essays and reviews by one of America's first great jazz critics on Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bubber Miley, Serge Lifar, etc. From the Dust Jacket: "HOT JAZZ AND JAZZ DANCE gathers nearly thirty years of Dodge's writing, from 1929 to 1958, offering a remarkable chronicle of the changing music and one writer's ever-growing appreciation of it. Dodge ranges across the musical spectrum, from the Cuban sexteto to the blues of Leadbelly. This collection also contains many of his articles on everything from mambo to Nijinsky. In addition, this volume offers Dodge's significant writing on classical music, including a piece on Baroque playing styles." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine /gold boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (30.00). 8vo. xiv, 368pp. …

First edition Near fine tall glossy stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Profusely illustrated with musicians and locations. Nicely annotated by the author. Gift quality.