[Jazz at the Philharmonic] Fitzgerald, Ella. (1917–1996) & Roach, Max. (1924–2007) & Peterson, Oscar. (1925–2007) & Phillips, Flip. (1915–2001) & Jones, Hank. (1918–2010) & Young, Lester. (1909–1959) & Eldridge, Roy. (1911–1989) & Brown, Ray. (1926–2002) & Granz, Norman. (1918–2001)
Autograph Signatures from 1952 First European Tour with Concert Ticket
Large sheet of stationery signed in ink by the First Lady of Song and ten other jazz giants, including Hank Jones, Norman Granz, Lester Young (twice), Flip Phillips, Roy Eldridge, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Max Roach, and Irving Ashby, from the first European tour of Jazz at the Philharmonic in Spring 1952. On the verso, the well-known Danish autograph collector Carl Werner Skogholm had written to the performers: “Dear Jazz at the Philharmonic, | I admire all of you, and I should be very grateful if you would be so kind as to send me your autographs on one piece of paper. I wish, on the back of this paper. | Thanks beforehand. | Yours sincerely, | C. W. Skogholm”.The present grouping also includes a concert ad clipping in Danish, featuring Ella Fitzgerald’s name prominently; printed below her name, Oscar Peterson (piano), Flip Philips [sic] (saxophone), Lester Young (saxophone), Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Hank Jones (piano), and Ray Brown (bass); printed but struck through in ink: Bill Harris (trombone), and Illinois Jacquet (saxophone). Also present, an original concert ticket, printed on red paper, showing price 1,90 kroner and date and time of April 2, 1952 at 9:15pm. All three items attached to heavy black card support, the signed stationery (8 × 5.5 inches, 14 × 20 cm) to adhesive corner mounts, and the clipping (1 × 4 inches, 3 × 10 cm) and ticket (1.25 × 2.25 inches, 3 × 6 cm) pasted directly; ensemble 7 × 9.25 inches (18 × 23.5 cm) mounted.
Jazz at the Philharmonic was a sensational series of jazz concerts and tours in the United States and Canada (1944–1957) and in Europe (1952–1959) that brought together a who’s-who of jazz musicians, produced by Norman Granz. Its recordings were added in 2010 to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for their significance in the history of American culture. (18199)
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