Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their weddings, and eulogized them at their funerals. He has caroused with them in bars and clubs from New Orleans to New York, from Paris to Singapore -- and survived to tell the story. The result has been a lifetime of friendship ...
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Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their weddings, and eulogized them at their funerals. He has caroused with them in bars and clubs from New Orleans to New York, from Paris to Singapore -- and survived to tell the story. The result has been a lifetime of friendship with some of the music world's most engaging and rambunctious personalities. In I Remember Jazz, Rose draws on this unparallelled experience to recall, through brief but poignant vignettes, the greats and the near-greats of jazz. In a style that is always entertaining, unabashedly idiosyncratic, and frequently irreverent, he writes about Jelly Roll Morton and Bunny Berigan, Eubie Blake and Bobby Hackett, Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong, and more than fifty others. Rose was only twenty-two when he was first introduced to Jelly Roll Morton. He quickly discovered that they had more in common than a love of music. Something of a peacock at that age, Rose was dressed in a "polychromatic, green-striped suit, pink shirt with a detachable white collar, dubonnet tie, buttonhole, and handkerchief" -- and so was Jelly Roll. About Eubie Blake, Rose notes that he was not only a superb musician but also a notorious ladies' man. Rose recalls asking the noted pianist when he was ninety-seven, "How old do you have to be before the sex drive goes?" Blake's reply: "You'll have to ask someone older than me." Once in 1947, Rose was asked to assemble a group of musicians to play at a reception to be hosted by President Truman at Blair House in Washington, D.C. The musicians included Muggsy Spanier, George Brunies, Pee Wee Russell, Pops Foster, and Baby DOdds. But the hit of the evening was President Truman himself, who joined the group on the piano to play "Kansas City Kitty" and the "Missouri Waltz." I Remember Jazz is replete with such amusing and affectionate anecdotes -- vignettes that will delight all fans of the music. Al Rose does indeed remember jazz. And for that we can all be grateful.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0807113158. First printing. Previous owner's address label on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 1st Printing. This is a Fine copy of the first edition (1st printing) In a fine dust jacket. There is a very small and unobtrusive (about half inch) spot to the front edge. Includes photographs. Index.
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Near Fine in Near fine jacket. First printing, 1987, hardcover with red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 257pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner Peter Pepke's plate to front flyleaf, along with gift inscription to front endpaper, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild edgewear. Peter Pepke, of Tidiute, Pa., was born into a vaudeville family, and after his graduation from high school, he joined the circus, playing drums and trombone. He has played extensively throughout the United States with clarinetist Jim Beatty, and has toured with the Jay Wachler Band. He has also performed in Iceland, Germany and Austria, as well as for the Olympics in Oslo, Norway, and the Super Bowl in Miami, Fla. He has recorded with the Trailer Park Trio, Jim Beatty, the Glarner Group, and others.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 257 p. Audience: General/trade. 1987 hardcover 1st edition 1st printing with full number line inscribed by the author on th3e ffep. it reads "To Cam with all my best, Al Rose, Toronto, 10-17-91". Slight edgewear, a bit of sunning on cover, top back corner a little bumped, a few corner folds, foxing, else text clean, binding tight.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0807113158. Clean and pristine. The jacket has a small crease in the vicinity of the price, but it is now protected by a mylar Brodart cover. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided.; 6.5 X 0.75 X 9.5 inches; 257 pages.
