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	BERGREEN, LAURENCE Louis Armstrong: An Extraordinary Life London: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1997. Hardcover. ISBN: 000255772x. Black boards with gilt titles on spine, contents clean and bright, illus with b/w plates. Unclipped jacket showing faint wear from storage. Perhaps America's greatest musical performer, Louis Armstrong was a character of epic proportions - married four times, with countless romantic involvements in and around his marriages, a life-long advocate of marijuana, who took his music from the streets of New Orleans to Hollywood, Europe, South America and, through his many recordings, the world. Armstrong was born to the 16-year-old daughter of a slave, who took to prostitution to support herself and her child. He spent time in reform school (where he first learned to play the bugle) and for a while earned his living as a pimp before starting to play jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans. He fought against prejudice, the Depression and the gangster-run music business of Chicago to become one of the most prominent and celebrated black men of his generation (he was the first black man to have his own radio show) and one of the most successful and popular jazz musicians of all time. The author had access to an archive of Armstrong's writing, recordings and photographs including 1800 hours of tape-recorded reminiscenes and anecdotes; 82 personal scrapbooks, 5000 candid photographs taken by Armstrong; 300 pages of unpublished autobiographical typescript; letters and other personal papers, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 450 pp. F/NF . GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 6532 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd..
	MCBRIEN, WILLIAM Cole Porter: The Definitive Biography London: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1998. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002154951. Black boards with gilt titles on spine, dent in foredge of lower board, contents clean and bright, b/w illustrations. Price clipped jacket showing faint edgewear and a little creasing around dent in lower board, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 288 pp. VG-/VG- . GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 6575 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd..
	NICHOLSON, STUART A Portrait of Duke Ellington : Reminiscing in Tempo London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1999. Hardcover. ISBN: 0283063386. Black boards with titles on spine, contents clean and bright, illus with b/w plates. Unclipped jacket showing a little light wear from storage. The quarter of a century since the death of Duke Ellington has only made clearer how crucial was the contribution he made to the music of the 20th Century; his 50 years as performer, arranger, bandleader and composer crystallised our sense of jazz as a rich musical world of possibilities. Stuart Nicholson has assembled a comprehensive account of his life and work from his own words and the words of those around him, interviewing survivors of those years and looking at what seems like every interview ever given by or about Ellington. In the process, he gives what seems like a definitive account of many vexed questions--Ellington's almost vampiric ability to get the best out of his many collaborators, his complex stance on civil rights, his involvement in Cotton Club days with figures from organised crime and his complicated emotional life. Above all, the book gives an impression of the boundless energy which he managed to communicate in different ways to his international audiences and to his gifted sidemen. The book comes illustrated with record sleeves and posters that are, in themselves, a history of changing degrees of respect for Black Americans, from the patronising caricatures of early days to Blue Note cool, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 552 pp. NF/VG+ . GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.83 \| JP¥ 1408] Book number: 6534 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd..
	SACHS, HARVEY Arthur Rubinstein: A Life London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0297815857. Black boards with gilt titles on spine, spine ends lightly rubbed, internally clean and bright, illustrated with b/w plates, a Rubinstein discography, notes on the sources, bibliography, and index. Unclipped jacket showing a little light shelfwear, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 528 pp. NF/NF . GBP 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 13 US$ 19.16 \| JP¥ 1704] Book number: 6531 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd..

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	BERGREEN, LAURENCE Louis Armstrong: An Extraordinary Life London: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1997. Hardcover. ISBN: 000255772x. Black boards with gilt titles on spine, contents clean and bright, illus with b/w plates. Unclipped jacket showing faint wear from storage. Perhaps America's greatest musical performer, Louis Armstrong was a character of epic proportions - married four times, with countless romantic involvements in and around his marriages, a life-long advocate of marijuana, who took his music from the streets of New Orleans to Hollywood, Europe, South America and, through his many recordings, the world. Armstrong was born to the 16-year-old daughter of a slave, who took to prostitution to support herself and her child. He spent time in reform school (where he first learned to play the bugle) and for a while earned his living as a pimp before starting to play jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans. He fought against prejudice, the Depression and the gangster-run music business of Chicago to become one of the most prominent and celebrated black men of his generation (he was the first black man to have his own radio show) and one of the most successful and popular jazz musicians of all time. The author had access to an archive of Armstrong's writing, recordings and photographs including 1800 hours of tape-recorded reminiscenes and anecdotes; 82 personal scrapbooks, 5000 candid photographs taken by Armstrong; 300 pages of unpublished autobiographical typescript; letters and other personal papers, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 450 pp. F/NF . GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 6532 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd..
	MCBRIEN, WILLIAM Cole Porter: The Definitive Biography London: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1998. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002154951. Black boards with gilt titles on spine, dent in foredge of lower board, contents clean and bright, b/w illustrations. Price clipped jacket showing faint edgewear and a little creasing around dent in lower board, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 288 pp. VG-/VG- . GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 6575 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd..
	NICHOLSON, STUART A Portrait of Duke Ellington : Reminiscing in Tempo London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1999. Hardcover. ISBN: 0283063386. Black boards with titles on spine, contents clean and bright, illus with b/w plates. Unclipped jacket showing a little light wear from storage. The quarter of a century since the death of Duke Ellington has only made clearer how crucial was the contribution he made to the music of the 20th Century; his 50 years as performer, arranger, bandleader and composer crystallised our sense of jazz as a rich musical world of possibilities. Stuart Nicholson has assembled a comprehensive account of his life and work from his own words and the words of those around him, interviewing survivors of those years and looking at what seems like every interview ever given by or about Ellington. In the process, he gives what seems like a definitive account of many vexed questions--Ellington's almost vampiric ability to get the best out of his many collaborators, his complex stance on civil rights, his involvement in Cotton Club days with figures from organised crime and his complicated emotional life. Above all, the book gives an impression of the boundless energy which he managed to communicate in different ways to his international audiences and to his gifted sidemen. The book comes illustrated with record sleeves and posters that are, in themselves, a history of changing degrees of respect for Black Americans, from the patronising caricatures of early days to Blue Note cool, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 552 pp. NF/VG+ . GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.83 \| JP¥ 1408] Book number: 6534 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd..
	SACHS, HARVEY Arthur Rubinstein: A Life London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0297815857. Black boards with gilt titles on spine, spine ends lightly rubbed, internally clean and bright, illustrated with b/w plates, a Rubinstein discography, notes on the sources, bibliography, and index. Unclipped jacket showing a little light shelfwear, 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 528 pp. NF/NF . GBP 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 13 US$ 19.16 \| JP¥ 1704] Book number: 6531 Click here to order or inquire at Double - B - Books Ltd..