Lebel, Jean-Jacques
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All of Ted Joans and No More / Joans, Ted ; Lebel JJ., 1961
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Identifier: CC-49439-70484
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This is the 2nd printing of this book in September 1961; it was 1st printed in July 1961. Theodore "Ted" Joans (July 4, 1928 - April 25, 2003) was an American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter. Born on a riverboat in Cairo, Illinois, Joans earned a degree in fine arts from Indiana University. He later associated with writers of the Beat Generation in Greenwich Village and San Francisco. He was a contemporary and friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. In the 1960s, Joans had a house in Timbuktu. He claimed to be a brother of Leroi Jones, despite the spelling difference, but this appears to be apocryphal. Joans' painting Bird Lives hangs in the De Young Museum in San Francisco. He was also the originator of the "Bird Lives" legend and graffiti in New York City after the death of Charlie Parker in March 1955. Joans invented the technique of outagraphy, in which the subject of a photograph is cut out of the image. Joans died in Vancouver, British Columbia due to complications of...
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1961
Some of It / Mairowitz, David, editor ; Lebel JJ ; Mitchell A ; Burroughs WS ; Miles ; Weissner C ; Gysin B ; Ginsberg A ; Nuttall J ; McClure M ; Kupferberg T., 1969
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Identifier: CC-05764-5872
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Silver mylar foil dust jacket. Themes deal with revolution, homosexuality, and underground press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
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1969
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