Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture - Hardcover

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 251 pages; Physical description: xvi, 251 p. , [16] of plates ; 22 cm. Subjects: Trumpet - History. Trumpeters - United States. Jazz musicians - United States. Contents: How Buddy Bolden blew his brains out (but not before he changed the music forever) -- From the Pyramids to New Orleans : the trumpet before jazz -- Louis Armstrong's beam of lyrical sound -- Bending brass : the art of the trumpet maker and my romance with the equipment -- Caution : the trumpet may be hazardous to your health -- Miles runs the voodoo down.