WILMER, Valerie; Archie Shepp, intro.

NY: Da Capo Press, 1976. First edition. [120]pp; b&w illus. 4to. Black cloth; dust jacket. Light shelfwear; mild toning to edges of leaves; one leaf with 1-inch closed tear at base and small spot of soiling. Unclipped jacket with wear at spine ends, rubbing to hinges, and several short closed edge tears. Very good. A photographic survey of Black American jazz and blues musicians by English photographer Valerie Wilmer (b. 1941); Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Cecil Taylor, Gus Cannon, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, B. B. King, James Brown, et al. Accompanied by quotes from subjects, and brief texts by Wilmer. Introduction by Archie Shepp.