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keberoxu Obit: Music Critic Nat Hentoff (1925-2017) (12) RE: Obit: Nat Hentoff 08 Jan 17


What does one find if one digs a little bit deeper? Not much deeper, just a little?

I went over to Advanced Book Exchange, a/k/a Abebooks website, to see what kind of titles might be out of print and floating about second-hand with Nat Hentoff as the author. Here's a quick list of the titles pertaining only to music, and it will omit some titles at that.

Nat Hentoff: Journey into Jazz, New York: Coward McCann, 1968.
Hentoff's Jazz for Children. Story of a boy who learns about jazz. First performed on television by the New York Philharmonic, with Leonard Bernstein conducting and narrating. 48 pages with illustrations.

edited by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro: Hear Me Talkin' To Ya:
The Story of Jazz by the Men who Made it. New York: Rinehart and Co., 1955.
This amazing book is full of stories by Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson, W. C. Handy, Fats Waller, Ethel Waters, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and many others.
An autographed first edition hardcover copy of this book is selling online for $182.

Text by Nat Hentoff, photography by Dennis Stock:
Jazz Street: A Photographic Exploration into the World of Jazz. Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.
130 pages of photographic plates, 63 pages of commentary [text].

Nat Hentoff: At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene. University of California Press, 2010.

Nat Hentoff: Jazz Is. Mass Market paperback: Avon, 1978.
Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, and Gato Barbieri.

Nat Hentoff: Boston Boy: Growing Up With Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions. Paul Dry Books, 2001.

Nat Hentoff: American Music Is. Da Capo Press, 2004.

Nat Hentoff: Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music. Harper Collins, 1995.

Nat Hentoff: The Jazz Life. Dial, 1961.
Profiles of Charles Mingus, John Lewis, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Ornette Coleman.
Blurb says: "Nat Hentoff is the co-editor of the Jazz Review." What was that?

Miles Davis: The Columbia Years. (this set of recordings is cassette tapes) CBS Records, Inc., 1988.
"Tapes are accompanied by a 21-page booklet with text by jazz historian Nat Hentoff."

hmmmm:
Volume 2, issue 2. The Jazz Review. Village Station: Jazz Review Inc., February 1959.
Edited by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams.
Includes: "Garvin Bushell and Jazz in the 1920's" by Nat Hentoff.

I'm too lazy to go on. How's that for starters....


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