Duke Ellington Piano Method for Blues

by Duke Ellington

$750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Robbins Music Corporation, 1943. First edition, stamped Complimentary Copy by publisher with lowered price sticker on front wrap. 44 pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good+, lightly worn spine, staples rusted, tiny corner crease to back wrap. The jazz legend teaches beginning pianists and composers the fundamentals of the popular boogie-woogie/ blues style of the '40s with his compositions and thoughts on improvisation.

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