Sedalia, Missouri: 1929. 11 x 18 inches, heavy cardstock. Manuscript note verso reads “Flor Alpino Vals / Vanderbeck”. An advertisement for a performance by the Original Eleven Clouds of Joy, likely an iteration—of which there were many—of the popular Kansas City-based swing jazz band Clouds of Joy. The group was.....
Omaha, Nebraska: The Metropolitan Press, 1930s. 14 x 21 ½ inch poster. Nat Towles (1905–1963) was a jazz musician and bandleader from New Orleans. His band, first called Nat Towles’ Creole Harmony Kings, was a renowned territory band in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. They would later have residences in.....
San Francisco, California: c. 1910. Single photograph, approximately 6 ½ x 9 inches, manuscript verso reading “SF Barbary Coast 500 Block of Pacific ”THE SO DIFFERENT” now 550 Pacific Ave 1911”. Appears to be trimmed from a larger photograph. Portion of image cut and pasted with editorial overpainting. A photograph.....
Unknown location: after 1950. 7 x 11 inch poster. A small poster for Pearl Bailey with the Louie Bellson Quartet, presented by the United Service Organizations and Department of Defense. Bailey (1918–1990) was a singer, dancer, and actress; she started her career performing at Black nightclubs on the east coast.....
New York: Mills Music, Inc., 1938. Folio sheet music, illustrated pictorial wraps. 9 x 12 inches. 6 pp. (including cover). A visually striking promotional sheet music cover issued in connection with the Cotton Club revue Cotton Club Parade (1938), featuring large photographic portraits of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Cab Calloway.....
New York, et al. 1940s-1960s. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints, with Bradley’s estate marks to versos. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who, after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at.....
New York: 1958. Silver Gelatin Photograph measuring 8 ½ x 11 ½ inches, with Schatt’s marks verso with his notation “Vintage ‘58” in ink. A fine example, fine contrast. A striking image of Eartha Kitt and her band performing at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, taken by the prolific photographer.....
Omaha, Nebraska: Maceo Pinkard Music Publisher, 1917. Folio sheet music, 11 x 14 inches, 3 pp. plus cover. An early jazz-era composition by the important African American songwriter Maceo Pinkard (1897–1962), issued from his short-lived Omaha publishing venture during the first years of the national “jass band” craze. The cover.....
New York City: Henry Waterson, Inc., 1925. Folio, illustrated wraps. 5 pp. A striking Jazz Age sheet music issue and likely first edition for “Dinah,” the widely popular song composed by Harry Akst with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young, here promoted as a “Featured Song Success” from.....
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New York City: 1938. Small folio, 12 x 9 inches, (16) unnumbered pages. Signed boldly by Calloway on the front cover above the leg of the dancer in the illustration. An illustrated program for the Cotton Club from 1937/1938, with photographs of Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, and Mae Johnson.....
New York: Exclusive Publications, Inc., 1935–1939. Nine pieces of sheet music. Folio. Titles include: “Azure”; “Caravan”; “In a Sentimental Mood”; “La De Doody Doo”; “Lost in Meditation”; “Prelude to a Kiss”; “Scattin’ at the Kit Kat”; “Solitude”; “The Gal from Joe’s”. Generally very good plus to near fine with light.....
New York City: Edwards Music Co. and others, 1937–1949. Ten pieces of sheet music (see full inventory below). A representative group of sheet music publications by Willie “The Lion” Smith, one of the defining architects of Harlem stride piano and a central transitional figure between ragtime-era keyboard traditions and modern.....
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New York City: Clarence Williams, 1924. Folio measuring 12 x 9 inches, 5 pp. With an attractive period style illustration by Sydney Leff, with his printed signature in the lower right corner. A very scarce surviving example of the sheet music for "Cakewalking Babies from Home", a cornerstone early jazz-blues.....