Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956]


Essays and photographs published on the occasion of the 1956 Randall’s Island Jazz Festival with performances by Billie Holliday, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and others. The New York Times estimated a crowd of over 15,000 in attendance.


Description: Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956]

[New York: K & J Heyman and A & S Markelson. December 1956]. 80 unnumbered pages. Quarto. Photo-pictorial wrappers. Newsstand, or similar entity, has covered up the original $1 price lower left with white tape and added a lower price of 50 cents on a printed label to upper right corner cover. General signs of handling and light bumping at fore-edge.

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Price: $45.00