Focus onJazz
"Hot can be cool, and cool can be hot, and each can be both. But hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz."
― Louis Armstrong
by Django Reinhardt, Skitch Henderson, Faye Emerson, Roger Chaput, Don Byas (subjects); Bob Oliver (photographer)
N.p. : N.p. , 1950
offered by Royal Books
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First Edition
by Laird, Ross
Westport : Greenwood Press , 1996
offered by Beasley Books
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by Nixon, Morgan "Moman
Oakland, California : Morgan , 2020
offered by Johnson
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Signed
by [MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] James "Jimmy" Dorsey
[Cedar Grove, NJ: ca. 1945-1950]
offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
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by Victor Race Records
Camden, NJ, USA : Victor Race Records , 03/08/1929
offered by WalterFilm
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“The American lives in a land of wonders, in which everything seems to be in constant flux, and every change seems to mark an advance. Hence the idea of the new is coupled in his mind with the idea of the better. Nowhere does he perceive the limits that nature may have imposed on man’s efforts. In his eyes, that which does not exist is that which has not yet been attempted.”
― Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America
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― Lord Byron
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― George Bernard Shaw
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― C.S. Lewis
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― Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
History of Ideas
“What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.”
― Sir Thomas Browne, Urn-Burial; or Hydriotaphia
History of the Book, Book Arts, & Fine Printing
“It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams…Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men”
― Johannes Gutenberg
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“My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anaïs Nin
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“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition…always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
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“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.”
― Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
Music
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― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Photography, Illustrated Books & History of the Image
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography
Religion
“As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine.”
― Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
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― Saint Augustine
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