Downbeat review books

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

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now im like you guys and have 1st pressing jazz reference books to refer to to answer my own questions!

 

Edited December 16, 2019 by chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

do you guys have the whole set- post a pic?

and your questions too of course

[HutchFan]

chewy - the images that you included in your original post aren't appearing. (Or they aren't appearing to me, at least.)

[felser]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

chewy - the images that you included in your original post aren't appearing. (Or they aren't appearing to me, at least.)

Not appearing for me, either.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

k i uploaded them to imagurbb and put in OP

Edited December 16, 2019 by chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez

[HutchFan]

I didn't even know that these existed.  But they look VERY cool.

What years do your two volumes cover?

[felser]

Ooh, I want those!

Edit:  but not at the going prices ($30-$100 each).  Looks like they commenced for 1957 and were published annually for at least eight years.

Edited December 16, 2019 by felser

[Big Beat Steve]

I have the first five (bought some of the first ones from none less than Ron Rambach so you can imagine the prices, even in 2002-03 ), and considering they do seem to create some interest here after all I am sort of surprised that the duplicate of no. 3 (1958 reviews) I have for sale and listed in my jazz "old paper" ad in the ads section here has not had any takers yet. PM if interested.

Edited December 16, 2019 by Big Beat Steve

[Rooster_Ties]

I have the last 4 (vols 5-8), all hardback, which I think cover 1961-64 (iirc), or maybe 1960-63 (I can't remember).  Fellow board member "Tom in RI" sold them to me for $125 total about 4-5 years ago, and they were in excellent condition - quite a reasonable price, I thought (about $32 per volume, including shipping).

Edited December 16, 2019 by Rooster_Ties

[Big Beat Steve]

It's 1960 to 1963 (reviews).
The price you paid is a VERY good one. Besides paying more on average for my own copies of Vol .1 to 5 (all of them more than 10 years ago), I have watched them on eBay every now and then through the years (they didn't come up that often anyway) and most of the time the starting or Buy it Now prices were staggering.

Edited December 16, 2019 by Big Beat Steve

[Milestones]

I'm sure Downbeat has always had a decent number of good reviewers.  But every now and then I see an original one that shows just how far off the mark they could be.  The most famous must be zero stars for Free Jazz.

 

 

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

1960 and 1961!!!!!!

[jazzcorner]

The complete series is Vol I to Vol VIII. I have 7 and missing Vol VII.

If there is someone who wants to sell it send a PM.

Thanks