2 Soft covered jazz music books titled HAMP An Autobiography by Lionel Hampton with James Haskins. This is a must read for Hampton fans and music lovers everywhere. This the the first book about Lionel Hampton, a Kennedy Center Honoree for lifetime achievements in the arts. He gives recollections of greats such as Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Teddy Wilson, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and Josephine Baker. First Edition, published in 1993, contains several pages of black & white photographs, and is in VG++ condition. 286 pages.

Also included is a soft covered book titled BIRD LIVES! The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell. This biography provides a vivid and accurate picture not only of the saxophonist-composer as artist and human being but of his zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. Parker was an immensely complex personality: saint and satyr, loving father and footloose vagabond, with a limitless appetite for sex, music, food, pills, heroin, liquor, and life. This is one of the most exhaustively researched biography on a jazz musician ever published. 403 pages. This is a must-have for any Yardbird Parker or jazz fan. Book is in VG++ condition.