![Item #6757] Ellington: The Early Years. Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6757_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725892402)
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “New York in 1923 offered more than glamor and celebrity to a young black bandleader from Washington. Then, as now, it boasted a rich concentration of musical talent and represented the proving ground for achievement. Musicians flocked to New York in search of good jobs, high wages, and opportunities to sell and distribute their music through publishing..... More
[Item #6757]![Item #7458] Evergreen Review Vol. 5 No. 17 (March-April 1961). Barney Rosset, Duke Ellington,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7458.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742570455)
New York, NY, USA: Everrgreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage earlier number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an excerpt from The World of Sex (1940/1956), the critical work by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American author & artist whose earlier works were an inspiration & influence for the Beat Generation. Preceding the excerpt is a facsimile printed page..... More
[Item #7458]![Item #2499] Conjunctions: 16. Hilton Als, Amiri Baraka, Leroi Jones, Miles Davis, George Eliot,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2499.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1466451235)
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1991. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal is subtitled "The Music Issue," & features many scholarly, critical essays & memoirs relating to this subject by noted writers: An essay, "Memphis to Memphis," on that city's rich musical history by Albert Goldman, biographer of Lenny Bruce & (controversially) Elvis Presley; the memoir "Up Close and Personal: Miles Davis and Me" by Quincy..... More
[Item #2499]![Item #4326] Evergreen Review Vol. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961) with: Vol. 5 No. 17 (March...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4326.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620234902)
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961)- this issue features a section from Naked Lunch, the breakthrough work of William S. Burroughs & one of the cornerstones of the Beat Generation & beyond. At..... More
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