CLAXTON, William, & Joachim E. Berendt.

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Jazz Life. First edition, from the library of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, presented to him as a Christmas gift by Mick Jagger, with a gift tag inscribed (not in Jagger's hand), "Charlie, Happy Christmas, from Mick", and with Watts's posthumous bookplate.The true first edition, with the two 45 RPM discs still present in the retaining band inside the lower board. This copy signed by Claxton on the title page. A record in words, pictures - and in the true first - sounds of a coast-to-coast tour undertaken by the influential German broadcaster Berendt and leading jazz photographer Claxton.Berendt's radio show "Jazztime Baden-Baden" pioneered the popularisation of jazz in post-war Germany. Behrendt's words accompany Claxton's superb selection of images, described by Newsweek as "the most thorough and imaginative visual record of American jazz at mid-century that we'll ever see". First published in German, only reissued in English in a revised edition in 2005. A superb copy, it is difficult to imagine a better.

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