Giants of Jazz
by Studs Terkel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine./Fine
- Seller
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Farningham, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The New Press, 2002 A collection of pen portraits of America's jazz legends, with sketches by Robert Galster. Joe Oliver's favourite meal, Fats waller's 1932 rendezvous in Paris with the eminent organist Marcel Dupre, Dizzy Gillespie's trip as a child to the pawnshop to buy his first horn, and the origin of Billie Holiday's nickname. Other artists include Count Bassie, Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Bessie Smith. 214 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wadard Books PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6745
- Title
- Giants of Jazz
- Author
- Studs Terkel
- Illustrator
- Robert Galster
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 195x140mm
- Keywords
- America. Jazz
Terms of Sale
Wadard Books PBFA
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About the Seller
Wadard Books PBFA
Biblio member since 2014
Farningham, Kent
About Wadard Books PBFA
The shop of Wadard Books is located in a listed 17th century timber framed building in the historic Kentish village of Farningham. The business is named after Wadard, one of Farningham's Domesday landlords, a henchman of Bishop Odo and featured on the Bayeaux tapestry.