PETER GAMMOND, BARRY ULANOV AND OTHERS

[DUKE ELLINGTON] GAMMOND, Peter ed. (1925-2019). Duke Ellington. His Life and Music. London: Phoenix House, 1958.

First edition, signed by Duke Ellington and his entire orchestra for British jazz journalist Jeff Atterton. Twice signed in blue ballpoint pen on the half-title by Ellington, additionally signed and often inscribed by the entire Ellington orchestra at the prelims, including Duke’s great collaborator and arranger, pianist Billy Strayhorn. The recipient, Jeff Atterton, wrote for Melody Maker and associated with many of the greats from the Big Band era and earlier.

Octavo. Portrait frontispiece and 16 other plates, pictorial endpapers. Original red cloth gilt, with pink pictorial dust-jacket. Provenance: Jeff Atterton (British jazz journalist).

[With:] ULANOV, Barry (1918-200). Duke Ellington. London: Musician's Press Limited, 1947. First edition, second impression, signed and inscribed in blue ink by Ellington on the front free endpaper ‘good luck, Duke Ellington’. Octavo. Original red boards gilt, with the dust-jacket. Ulanov, at the time editor of Metronome magazine, authored four seminal books on jazz music and culture.

[With:] JEWELL, Derek. Duke: A Portrait of Duke Ellington. London: Elm Tree Books, 1977. Authorial presentation inscription. Music critic Derek Jewell was instrumental in staging Ellington’s Sacred Music in the UK and organised his London memorial service.

[With:] ELLINGTON, Mercer and Stanley DANCE. Duke Ellington in Person. An Intimate Memoire. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Dance's authorial inscription to front free endpaper by Stanley Dance.

[And:] TEACHOUT, Terry. Duke. The Life of Duke Ellington. London: The Robson Press, 2013.