Jacket Notes Paul Shapler (2 results)
More imagesMary Lou Williams: a keyboard history (VINYL JAZZ LP)
Mary Lou Williams with Wendell Marshall, bass, and Osie Johnson, drums / Jacket notes by Paul Shapler
Language: English
Published by The Jazztone Society, New York 1955
- Hardcover
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, U.S.A.Cat's Curiosities
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "Long Play" (mono) vinyl LP record, Jazztone J-1206, near-mint vinyl in a very-good jacket. Includes Fandangle, Sweet Sue, Lullaby of the Leaves, I Love Him, Talk of the Town, I Love You, Easy Blues, Taurus (a movement from her Zod…iac Suite), etc. "This recording, made especially for the Jazztone Society in early 1955 on her return from a long European tour, is intended as an anthology of her career. With her, we take a retrospective musical journey back to the days when she played ragtime tunes and blues that her mother taught her. We then go to Kansas City, to the boogie woogie and swing phases of her career, and travel right on through to Carnegie Hall, where her well-known 'Zodiac Suite' was first performed . . ." Reduced from $14.
More imagesPrez and Chu: Tops on Tenor (VINYL 12-INCH 1955 JAZZ LP)
Lester Young and His Kansas City Six / Chu Berry and His Jazz Ensemble / jacket notes by Paul Shapler
Language: English
Published by Jazztone 1955
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, U.S.A.Cat's Curiosities
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
£ 6.90
£ 4.46 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch "Long Play" (mono) vinyl jazz LP, Jazztone J-1218, near-mint vinyl in a very-good cardboard jacket with some edge toning to verso. Lester Young, Clarinet and tenor saxophone, is joined by Buck Clayton, trumpet, Freddie Greene…, guitar, Jo Jones, drums, and five others on "Three Little Words," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,", etc. (most recorded in the early '40s for Commodore Records, principally with sidemen who were fellow members of Count Basie's band.) These recordings of Chu Berry, tenor sax, who died in a car crash in 1941, were also made for Commodore in 1938 and 1941. Chu is joined by either Roy Eldridge or Oran "Hot Lips" Page, trumpets, and four others on "Gee, Ain't I Good to You," "Body and Soul," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," etc. Reduced from $12.50.
