Mon-Sat 11:00 am -9:00 pm
Sundays 3 pm- 7:00 pm

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


 

book


Kinds Of Blue

Al Young

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

 



Jazz Piano

Mark Levine
$35.00

 

 

Music Is My Mistress
1st Edition

Duke Ellington

 

 

Conga Drummer's Guidebook

Michael Spiro
$31.00

 

 

Sitting In

Hayden Carruth

 

 

 

Polyrhythms

Pete Magadini

$27.00

 


The Devil's Horn

Michael Segell
$32.0

 

Arpegio Studies On Jazz Standards

Mimi Fox
$19.00

 


 

The Real Vocal Book Second Edition Volume I


$35.00

 

 


 

 

 

The Real Book


$35.00

 


 

 

 

The Real Book, 6th ed.

$35.00

 

 

 



 

 

 

Salsa Guidebook for Piano & Ensemble

Rebecca Mauleón
$25.00

   

 

 

Metaphors for the Musician

Randy Halberstadt
$29.00

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

   
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