first edition Hardcover
1991 · New York
by Balliett, Whitney
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 295 p. This collection contains many of the shorter pieces Balliett wrote for The New Yorker during the 1980s, as well as a few previously unpublished entries that offer penetrating assessments of the new movements and emerging performers of the decade, along with tributes and obituaries for many of the prominent jazz musicians that passed away during that time, including Count Basie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Buddy Rich, and Sarah Vaughan. This copy has been inscribed in the year of publication by noted jazz critic Leonard Feather to the legendary jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, (truncated)