Jazz library

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The Jazz Library was a series of books published by Pegasus Verlag in Wetzlar.

In the jazz library , which was published in twelve editions by Hans H. Reinfeldt from 1959 to 1962, the authors Peter Kunst ( Sidney Bechet ), Werner Burkhardt / Joachim Gerth ( Lester Young ), Siegfried Schmidt-Joos ( Charlie Parker ) wrote , Jimmy Jungermann ( Ella Fitzgerald ), Horst H. Lange ( Red Nichols , Nick LaRocca ), Werner Götze ( Dizzy Gillespie ), Dietrich Schulz-Köhn ( Django Reinhardt , Stan Kenton ), Ingolf Wachler ( Benny Goodman ), Erhard Kayser ( Mahalia Jackson ) and Hans-Jürgen Winkler ( Louis Armstrong ). Each book was paperboard, had 48 pages of text and 16 full-page black and white illustrations.

References and comments

  1. ^ Sidney Bechet, A portrait at zotero.org
  2. Entry in Open Library
  3. ^ Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca papers, 1885-1961 in Hogan Jazz Archive
  4. Manfred Sack : Were whites the first jazz musicians? (1961) in Die Zeit
  5. Entry in Open Library