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Zustand: Very good. New York, NY: Random House, (1985)., (1985). Very good. SIGNED BY ALBERT MURRAY & 13 GREAT JAZZ MUSICIANS - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black boards backed with black cloth titled in silver on the front cover and the spine, in a dust wrapper featuring a photographic portrait of Count Basie. The top edge of the dust jacket is lightly creased with a couple of tiny tears xiv, [1] & 400 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and 16 pages of photographs. There is a small brown stain to the front edge of the front endpaper. Very good. First edition. The book is inscribed by the co-author Albert Murray on the half-title. Murray (1916-2013) was a novelist and a jazz critic. He was the author of "Stomping the Blues" and "The Hero and the Blues". The jazz musicians who have signed are: Rudy Rutherford (1924-1995), American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist. He played with Count Basie for three years in the early 1940's. Of him, Basie said: "(He) was also a hell of a clarinet player. Rudy really had that sound on clarinet. That's him in the V-disc take of 'Kansas City Stride' and also most of the other clarinet solos for the next year or so". Grover Mitchell (1930-2003), American jazz trombonist. Mitchell was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra from 1962-1970 and again from 1980-1984. Butch Miles (b.1944), American jazz drummer. He was with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1975-1979. Jimmy Lewis (1918-2000), American double bassist. He was with the Count Basie sextet in 1950. Lewis has signed twice. Eddie Preston (1925-2009), American jazz trumpeter. He played with Count Basie in 1963. Frank Wess (1922-2013), American jazz saxophonist and flutist. According to Count Basie, "Frank Wess is the man who really brought the flute into the jazz scene". Wess played with Count Basie from 1959-1964. Buddy Tate (1913-2001), American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. He was with Count Basie from 1939-1948. Frank Foster (1928-2011), American saxophonist, flutist and composer/arranger. Foster was a frequent collaborator with Count Basie. Foster has signed twice. Freddie Green (1911-1987), American swing jazz guitarist. Green played rhythm guitar with the Count Basie Orchestra off and on for nearly 50 years. Bill Hughes (1930-2018), American jazz trombonist and band leader. Hughes was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra from 1953-1957 and later from 1963-2010. Eddie Durham (1906-1987), American jazz guitarist, trombonist and composer/arranger. Durham played with members of the Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930's. He was a pioneer of the electric guitar in jazz. Benny Powell (1930-2010), American jazz trombonist. Powell played in the Count Basie Orchestra from 1951-1963. Ermet "E.V." Perry (c.1912-2000), American jazz trumpeter. Although he played with many of the great jazz bands of the era, we are uncertain as to his relationship with the Count Basie Orchestra.