[78-L] Leonard Feather's Inside Jazz

[Bill McClung]

Warren,

Thanks for the info.  What's the publication date of the hardback and was it
also from Robbins?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:03 PM, warren moorman <wlmoorman3 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Yes, the original hardback edition was called "Inside BeBop", and the
> change of title for the paperback edition was to broaden the sales
> viability, but not specifically because the publisher thought the world
> wasn't ready for a bebop tome per se; after all, it had been published in
> hardback first, with the "Bebop" title, and the paperback merchandising
> racks were more mass market than the hardback's appeal to the jazz fans
> who knew of Feather from Metronome and Esquire.
>
> Warren
>
>
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> I was in Tampa today and found a copy of "Inside Jazz" by Leonard Feather.
> The book's front cover touts Feather as the world's #1 authority on bebop.
>
> The book is from 1949, a 7"x10" paperback published by Robbins & Sons of
> NYC.  Lots of great illustrations and notes on record labels and band
> personnel.  Also has a page devoted to the song origins of many bebop
> tunes.  The purpose of the book was to talk about bebop without resorting
> to
> the stereotypes of berets and dark glasses and slang. One picture has Dizzy
> and Louis standing arm in arm lost in conversation with the caption saying
> that despite all the talk these two are actually good friends.
>
> But what I found most interesting was that the front cover said "Inside
> Jazz" but on the title page it was titled "Inside Bebop" and Dizzy
> Gillespie's short introduction also said the book was titled 'Inside
> Bebop."  So even by 1949 the publisher didn't think the world was not ready
> for an authoritative discussion of bebop?  Anybody have a copy of this with
> "Inside Bebop" as the title on the cover?
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