New York: The Jazz Review, 1959. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Single issue of one of the most essential of all American jazz magazines, co-founded by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams in 1958. The mysterious jazz critic and architect Hsio Wen Shih, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1965, is listed as..... More
New York: The Jazz Review, 1960. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Single issue of one of the most essential of all American jazz magazines, co-founded by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams in 1958. The mysterious jazz critic and architect Hsio Wen Shih, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1965, is listed as..... More
New York: 1964. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4" handbill, printed on pink paper stock. Illustrated with a small photograph of Mamie Smith. The handbill for this January 27, 1964 memorial tribute concert for Mamie Smith organized by the great Victoria Spivey. Performers listed include Buddy Tate's Band, Jimmy Rushing, Lucille..... More
![Words, Out of the Mouths of Poets [Flyer]. Jameel Moondoc](/pictures/thumb/29541.jpg?v=1625171222)
New York: Neither/Nor, nd [c. 1980's]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, photomechanically reproduced on white paper stock. The reading featured performances by Jemeel Moondoc and The Divine Monochord; poets included Qunicy Trope, Tato Laviera, Bina Sharif, DAniele Watson, Zoe Angelesey, Michael Carter, Nanvy Ancrom, Jill Burton and John Farris. Folded..... More
[London]: Privately Printed, [1959]. Foolscap format, 20 leaves, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, side-stapled, and backed in black cloth tape. A remarkable two part essay, followed by a selection of poems, by this key figure in British Bohemia, in which she calls for poetry performance to be remade with..... More
Paris: Jazz Hot, 1979. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Text all in French. This issue of the longrunning French jazz magazine has Sun Ra on the cover, and within an article on the Sun Ra discography from 1971-78, the second installment of a Sun Ra discography in the magazine. Also..... More
np: nd. 20 x 14 1/2"poster, printed in black and white on thick card stock. Very good with some creasing, surface abrasions and other wear, but sturdy and intact. More
np: c. 1971. 19 x 18" poster, photographically illustrated and printed on very thick card stock. A gorgeously designed, oversized, somewhat mysterious poster placard for the 1971 work by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, which doesn't actually bear the name of the group but is similar in design to other early..... More
![The City of the Midnight Sun... [Manuscript]. Abdu Wadud, Cyril Kalfin Robert Smith](/pictures/thumb/26509.jpg?v=1611619142)
[New York]: c. 1962. 4to, twenty leaves clipbound into a green card folder, typewritten on rectos only, with holograph corrections and additions in pencil, as well as brief holograph passages to the verso of several leaves. Cover, and verso of final leaf illustrated with drawings in ink, graphite, and colored..... More