Description and condition:

Brown boards hardback, 12mo, 248pp, index.

Good copy with lightly marked covers and nice clean pages throughout. Lacks dustcover.

Contents:

Prologue: Sidney Bechet in Europe, 1919 by Ernest Ansermet
Sonny Terry and His Blues by Marshall Stearns
Ragtime by Guy Waterman - A Survey - Joplin's Late Rags
Jelly Roll Morton and the Frog-i-more Rag by William Rusell
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band by Larry Gushee
James P. Johnson by Ross Russell
Dixieland by Orrin Keepnews
Bix Beiderbecke by George Avakian
Bessie Smith by George Avakian
Recording Limits and Blues Form by Martin Williams
Three Boogie-Woogie Blues Pianists by William Russell - Clarence Lofton - Jimmy Zancey - Meade "Lux" Lewis
Big Maceo by Paul Oliver
Duke Ellington in the Nineteen-thirties by Charles Fox
Duke Ellington by Vic Bellerby
Billie Holiday by Glenn Coulter
The Genius of Art Tatum by Andre Hodeir
Charlie Christina by Al Avakian and Bob Prince
Bebop by Ross Russell - Bop Rhythm - The Evolutionary Position of Bop - Brass - The Parent Style and Lester Young - Two Notes on Modern Jazzmen by Paul Bacon
Looking Back at the Modern Jazz Quartet by Max Harrison
The Funky-Hard Bop Regression by Martin Williams
A Basic Library of Jazz on LP