Jacket notes by george avakian (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "high fidelity 360 sound" (mono) Columbia CL 892, near-mint vinyl in a good-only cardboard jacket with a strip of tape along top edge, still showing its small original "98" price tag. The back-up trombonists include Urbie Green and Jimmy Cleveland, bass trombonists Bart Varsalone and Tom Mitchell, with Hank Jones piano, Milt Hinton bass, and Osie Johnson drums. J.J Johnson and Kai Winding here introduce the trombonium, an upright valve trombone, as the octet offers Dizzy Gillespie's "Night in Tunisia," "The Continental," "You're My Thrill," and Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Surrey With the Fringe On Top," others. (Although small photo to bottom of rear panel surely indicates J.J. Johnson was of the African-American persuasion -- as we suspect Jimmy Cleveland was, as well -- Arnold Roth's art to front panel for some reason shows eight white guys. No one at Columbia could have picked up the phone and said "Yo, Arnie, looks great, but we need a few little adjustments, here"?) Reduced from $12. Cover art by Arnold Roth (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm vinyl Dixieland jazz record album, Columbia Masterworks "Golden Era Series" ML 4811, "non-breakable long play" (mono) near-mint heavy vinyl in a near-mint cardboard jacket. Recorded in four sessions in 1927 and 1928 (Bix's constitution gave out and he died in 1931 at the age of 28) with ((subject to a few replacements) Bix on cornet, Bill Rank trombone, Don Murray clarinet, Adrian Rollini bass sax, Frank Signorelli, piano, Howdy Quicksell, banjo, and Chauncey Morehouse, drums, the group here offers "Louisiana," "Thou Swell," "Ol' Man River," "Somebody Stole My Gal," "At the Jazz Band Ball," seven others. Catalogs $70; here reduced from $25.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm Nonbreakable Long Playing (mono) vinyl record, Columbia CL 548, very-good-plus vinyl with a half-inch scuff mark (and original maroon label) in a near-mint cardboard jacket. Joining trumpet players Clayton and Joe Newman are Urbie Green and Henderson Chambers on trombones, Walter Page on bass, sax men Lem Davis, Julian Dash, and Charlie Fowlkes, Jo Jones on drums, Sir Charles Thompson (who wrote "Robbins' Nest") on piano, Freddie Green on guitar. Bop era cool jazz. This record catalogs $50 in near-mint; though we've graded this copy slightly lower. Reduced from $27. …