Typed slip reading "To my friend, / Robert Wineburgh," signed and dated in ink by the bandleader: "Paul Whiteman / Mar 21, 1928," laid down on a card mount. Mount toned and water-stained, the slip lightly toned. 5.25 x 3.5 inches; 13.5 x 9 cm.
Billed as the "King of Jazz," Whiteman led the most popular dance orchestra of the 1920s and commissioned Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue for his 1924 Aeolian Hall concert; by 1928 his band included Bix Beiderbecke and Bing Crosby.
Typed slip reading "To my friend, / Robert Wineburgh," signed and dated in ink by the bandleader: "Paul Whiteman / Mar 21, 1928," laid down on a card mount. Mount toned and water-stained, the slip lightly toned. 5.25 x 3.5 inches; 13.5 x 9 cm.
Billed as the "King of Jazz," Whiteman led the most popular dance orchestra of the 1920s and commissioned Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue for his 1924 Aeolian Hall concert; by 1928 his band included Bix Beiderbecke and Bing Crosby.