THE SECOND LINE

New Orleans: New Orleans Jazz Club, 1959. First Edition. Very good +.. 5 issues of this 1950s Jazz fan magazine, issue via mailorder by the New Orleans Jazz Club. Consists of critical articles on jazz culture and accounts of jazz news, both local and national. Subjects include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, and many other contemporaries. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps, most saddle-stapled. Condition very good overall. Many folded for mailing; others toned; several with handwritten notes or prices. Most issues 16-30 pages. An overall clean and presentable set. Includes: Vol. 4, Nos. 1 (January, 1953) and 6 (June, 1953); Vol. 7, Nos. 5/6 (May-June, 1956) and 7-8 (July-August, 1956); and Vol. 9, Nos. 5/6 (May-June, 1959).