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.....
Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company, 1863. First Edition. Manuel Fenellosa and his brother-in-law Manuel Emilio came to the United States from Spain in 1836 aboard the SS United States. They settled in Salem, Massachussetts, first forming a band and then a music school. They were friends of the publisher John.....
Los Angeles: 1950s. Silver gelatin print, 8 x 10 inches. With Morehead’s marks to verso. A scarce and perhaps unrecorded image of Charlie Parker playing table tennis, likely taken in Los Angeles, by the pioneering Los Angeles-based African-American photographer Howard Morehead. Morehead, originally from Topeka, Kansas, served as member of.....
Mostly Los Angeles: 1970s. Quarto, laminated photographic cloth album, 10 x 11 inches, 80 photographs and assorted ephemera, most photographs 8 x 10 inches. Mostly Los Angeles, 1970s-early 1980s. Aeros Theda was a Michigan-born formally-trained musician living in California in the 1970s, where she played in several fusion/rock/jazz.....
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Chicago: 1893. Broadside, 11 ¾ x 5 ½ inches. John Hutchison, patriarch and leader of the Hutchinson Family Band, was hired by the World’s Fair Committee to perform as one of the “Wonders of America.” This broadsheet, unrecorded, is a souvenir of his performance from the fair, in which he.....
San Francisco: LPIU, 1966. Poster on vellum paper after a photograph by Edmund Shea. 14 x 20 inches, Likely first printing, with the LPIU Union logo and "72" at bottom left corner. Lenny Bruce, himself a product of the Jazz era, was highly influential for many of the new left.....
California and New York: 1960s. Silver gelatin prints on glossy stock, most 8 x 10 inches. A fine collection of press photos from an amazing period in American music, with many classic soul singers included, many of whom were represented by the William Morris Agency. Subjects include: Clyde McPhatter, Ketty.....
Various Places. Most 1940s-1950s, various formats. A wide-ranging collection of Toscanini material, found amongst his scores in the estate of his grandson Walfredo. The highlight is a late draft of his speech “To The People of America,” an important document in Italian-American history that was printed in Life Magazine during.....