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On this website, you will find an illustrated catalog of selected books and CDs related to Harry's music interests, all with direct links to Amazon. But these items are just part of the Brabec Book/CD Collection now on the Amazon Marketplace. See below for a complete list of topic categories. ~ BARBARA

 

In a letter to a music buddy in 1999, Harry wrote: "I’m an avid reader, and I just keep buying books and never find the time to read all of them. I swear I will get to the book you sent me next week. All my reading material is stacked nice and neat, but it's beginning to close in on me. Barb is suggesting that we put a sign on our front lawn telling people that this is the Brabec and Brabec bookstore. The house seems to be bursting at the seams with books and magazines we haven't read yet."

Harry's mistress was indeed music, but he also had a lifelong love affair with books, and he collected some of the finest and now most sought-after books in all of the musical and entertainment categories. He also had a passionate interest in the circus and circus music, as well as art and history (particularly the Civil War and World War II). I am now offering his collection for sale on Amazon. On one hand, I can just hear him saying, "What! You're selling my books?" But on the other . . . [MORE]

 

The following items from Harry's collection are now for sale on Amazon and illustrated on this website with links to Amazon: JAZZ & BIG BAND BOOKS Back Issues of Jazz, Big Band & Ragtime Periodicals RARE PERCUSSION & DRUM BOOKS AMERICAN BANDS, BAND MUSIC, JOHN PHILIP SOUSA CDs FROM HARRY'S COLLECTION on Amazon The following topic categories are also available on Amazon, but not illustrated on this website. To find them, just pull up my Amazon Marketplace catalog and scroll through it. Books and CDs are usually (but not always) entered in clumps by subject matter. (The catalog also includes some rare VHS tapes.) OPERA & SYMPHONY HOLLYWOOD & SHOW BUSINESS ENTERTAINERS CIRCUS, CARNIVAL, & CAROUSEL BOOKS BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES ART * LITERATURE * CLASSICS * SPIES ENGLISH * WORD ORIGINS NOSTALGIA * RADIO * MEMOIRS CIVIL WAR * CUSTER WORLD WAR II * HISTORY SHIPS AND THE SEA NOVELTY & MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS ABOUT CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Harry Brabec was a legendary symphonic musician and show drummer greatly admired by his peers. In 2010, Barbara published The Drummer Drives! Everybody Else Rides, a memoir about her life with Harry. During his lifelong musical career, he worked with countless entertainers, bands and orchestras, including the National Symphony in Washington, D.C., the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera, Ballet, the Shubert Theatre in Chicago, the NBC Symphony of Chicago and, in his earlier years, the jazz bands of Wayne King and Chuck Foster.

VISIT The Drummer Drives website for details about the book, a wealth of content that couldn't be included in it, and the following articles related to Harry's book collection:

Czech Books from Harry Brabec's Collection

Percussion Books by James Blades

Signed Books in Harry Brabec's Book Collection (Memoirs by musicians he knew)

Finding "Gold" on the Living Room Bookshelves

ON THIS WEBSITE:

Jazz & Big Band Books

Percussion & Drum Books

Bands, Band Music, Sousa Books