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Phone: 510-845-5373 ext. 5
E-mail: dean@jazzschool.com
Acting Manager: Dean Muench

We stock and sell all jazz-related texts and supplemental materials for the jazz student including: complete catalogues from Sher Music, Jamey Aebersold Jazz, Advance Music, Hal Leonard, Mel Bay, Warner Bros., et al. In addition, we will special order whenever needed or requested.

Our prices include sales tax, and whenever possible, our prices are below suggested retail.

Bassment's literary inventory includes noted biographies and historical texts, cultural and musical analysis, fiction, and poetry. First edition, author signed, and out-of-print books are a small and revered part of our jazz literature. Here are examples:

TEXTBOOKS

JAZZ LITERATURE


Jazz Theory

Mark Levine
$45.00


 

 

to BE or not to BOP

1st Edition

Dizzy Gillespie

 



Jazz Piano

Mark Levine
$35.00

 

 

Music Is My Mistress
1st Edition

Duke Ellington

 

 

 

Blues and Boogie Piano Styles

Aaron Blumenfield
$30.00

 

Footprints
Live of Wayne Shorter

Michelle Mercer

 

 

Blues, Boogie and Barrelhouse

Piano Workbook

Aaron Blumenfield
$30.00

A unique text with perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of original blues piano recordings published.



Miles
Autobiography of Miles Davis

With Quincy Troupe

 

 

 

Conga Drummer's Guidebook

Michael Spiro
$31.00

 

 

Sitting In

Hayden Carruth

 

 

 

 

Internalization

Allan Hall
$32.00

 

Kinds Of Blue

Al Young

"..one of the best books about the jazz experience ever to see print" -- SF Chronicle

 

Polyrhythms

Pete Magadini

$27.00

 


The Devil's Horn

Michael Segell
$32.0

 

Arpegio Studies On Jazz Standards

Mimi Fox
$19.00

Blues City

Ishmael Reed
$16.00

 

The Real Vocal Book Second Edition Volume I


$35.00

 

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't

Scott Saul
$29.95

 

 

 

The Real Book


$35.00

Art Blakey

Jazz Messenger

Leslie Gourse
$25.00

 

 

 

The Real Book, 6th ed.

$35.00

 

 

Handful of Keys

Alyn Shipton

 

 

 

 

The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion & Drum Set

Ed Uribe
$39.95

 

 

Waiting for Sweet Betty

Clarence Major
$14.00

 

 

 

 

Salsa Guidebook for Piano & Ensemble

Rebecca Mauleón
$25.00

   

 

 

Metaphors for the Musician

Randy Halberstadt
$29.00

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

   
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