Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller (Signed)

Schuller, Gunther

Oxford University Press, 1986

[Association copy, inscribed, signed by Gunther Schuller to John Edward Hasse.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Price clipped. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Blind stamp of Hasse on half title page. Clean, unmarked pages. xii, 303 p., 24 cm. *Autographed by author.* 

Gunter Schuller was an American composer, performer, conductor, teacher, and writer noted for his wide range of activity in both jazz and classical music and for his works embracing both jazz and advanced 12-tone elements.

John Edward Hasse is the renowned Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian, frequent Wall Street Journal contributor, esteemed Duke Ellington biographer, Grammy-nominated producer and author, founder of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and an accomplished musician himself. He is one of the most authoritative and entertaining speakers on American jazz.