First edition Jazzmen edited by Frederic Ramsey Jr and Charles Edward Smith hotsell

Book is in good condition some damage on the dust cover but the book it's intact

Jazzmen is a book on the history of jazz. It was edited by Frederic Ramsey, Jr. and Charles Edward Smith, and was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1939. It was the first jazz history book published in the United States, and helped establish a story of early jazz as well as renewing interest in those forms of music and their players.

Jazzmen
Editors
Frederic Ramsey, Jr., Charles Edward Smith
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Publication date
1939
Media type
Print
Contents
BackgroundEdit

Frederic Ramsey, Jr. was employed by Harcourt, Brace & Company, and in 1937 was asked to read a manuscript that been submitted by the musician Ted Lewis.[1] Unimpressed by Lewis's claim to have been a jazz pioneer, the young editor reported to his superior that he could write a better history of the music than Lewis had.[1] The senior editor then suggested that he do so.[1]

“In the spring of 1939, the jazz writer Charles Edward Smith spent several weeks in New Orleans, as part of the research he and other writers were doing for the book Jazzmen. He found the inspiration for his writing not only by talking with the veteran musicians who could take him back hotsell to the old days, but also by hanging out in the clubs that still were open