Music & Dance from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

A life of Jimi Hendrix told through text, rare photographs, reproductions of documents and memorabilia, and a 70-minute audio CD. 4to, 10.25x10.75", illustrated boards, 64 pp. plus inserts of memorabilia. With exclusive access to the private family archives, the authors provide an indispensable addition to the Hendrix canon. The book includes a 70-minute audio CD with interviews and unreleased recordings of… Read more about this item

London, Princes Theatre, 1961. Stapled wrappers.7.25x5" 24pp. 'King Kong' was a pioneering South African musical inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening on February 2nd 1959 and went on to take South Africa by storm. Nelson Mandela attended the opening night and is… Read more about this item

Revised edition (Seventy-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. 8vo, decorated cloth stamped in black and gold. ##### Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); 2 tinted lithographic portrait plates; and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University). ##### Condition: Fair. Small ownership signature in… Read more about this item

Harcourt Brace and Company, New York. Near Fine. 1939. 1st ed.. 1st ed., 8vo., beige cloth, 360 pp. This early jazz history focus es on the important hot spots and musicians of New Orleans, Chica go, and New York. 56 photographs; comprehensive index. CONDITION: Near fine in fair dustjacket. A clean, tight copy: prior ownerâ €™s penciled signature… Read more about this item