Teagarden, Jack. (1905-1964) & Rollins, Sonny. (b. 1930) & Brubeck, Dave. (1920-2012) & Kenton, Stan. (1911-1979) & Condon, Eddie. (1905-1973) & Armstrong, Louis. (1901-1971) & Herman, Woody. (1913-1987)
Group of Jazz Programs and Esquire Magazines
Group of five original jazz programs from the 1940's–50's, from the collection of jazz promoter Fred Taylor. Included are a ca. 1940's Jack Teagarden program (4 pp., with several photographs of Teagarden and his band); a 1944 souvenir program from the 6th season of the Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert series (18 pp., with extensive photographs throughout); a ca. late 1940's souvenir program from Stan Kenton and his orchestra (14 pp., with photographs throughout); a ca. early 1950's souvenir program from Louis Armstrong and his Concert Group and Woody Herman and the Third Herd (20 pp., with photographs and essays about both bands); and a 1958 souvenir program from the concert "Jazz for Moderns," featuring the Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Four Freshmen, the Maynard Ferguson Band, and Sonny Rollins (22 pp.) Some wear to the covers, with creases and some small tears (the cover of the Eddie Condon program repaired with tape); overall very good to fine.Together with two issues of Esquire magazine: the 1945 "Jazz Book" featuring an introduction by Arnold Gingrich, essays by Paul Edward Miller, Leonard Feather and others, extensive discographies and biographical information on all the major performers of the war era (90 pp.; cover wear with some large tears to back wrapper); and the January 1959 holiday issue, with title story "The Golden Age of Jazz," featuring an article and full-page color photos of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Lester Young, and small texts contributed by Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins and others (145 pp; some light cover wear, otherwise fine).
From the collection of the legendary Boston jazz promoter Fred Taylor (b. 1930), known for booking jazz clubs Paul's Mall and Jazz Workshop in the 1960's–70's. The musicians he invited to Boston included many greats of the era, such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters, and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as young performers Bruce Springstein, Billy Joel, and Earth, Wind and Fire. He was the first to book the young Bob Dylan to play in Boston, and also staged Miles Davis' comeback show in 1981. The Music Museum of New England writes: "If you are a jazz musician who’s played in Boston anytime over the past half-century, it’s a good bet you got the gig because of Fred Taylor." (15663)
Program, unsigned Jazz