cotterrell edi editor (2 resultados)

trade paperback. Condición: near fine. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. "Best wishes for 2000" signed by Harry Gold on the front endpaper. 207 pages including the index. Signed by author.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Saxophonist and band leader Harry Golds memoir of the early years of jazz in Britain. Gold s vividly detailed reminiscences of his eight decades as a working musician conjure up lost worlds: London s East End in the 1920s, the glamourous high-society life of great dance bands in the interwar years, and life on the road with his own jazz band in the post-war decades. His musical experiences stretch from seeing the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1919 to touring in East Germany with his Pieces of Eight in the 1980s. His story is populated by royalty, gangsters, fearsome landladies and Irish publicans, but above all by the dozens of jazz and dance band musicians whose talents, eccentricities and often anarchic humour he celebrates. With 'B&W' photos & a 'preface' by John Dankworth. /// This is a 1st edition paperback in near to fine condition. (207 pages & 16 pages of introduction & 16 pages of photos).