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[JAZZ ERA PHOTO & POSTCARD TRAVEL ALBUM ARCHIVE/WOMEN]. DANA, Samuel Trask & DANA (CARROLL), Harriet MerrillBiblio.com

Six photograph and postcard scrapbook albums recording the voyages and travels of Samuel Trask Dana with his family to attend the General Assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture and the World’s Forestry Congress.

1926réf. 45424Amherst MA: Samuel T. Dana & Harriet Dana 1926. Six volumes. 4to. 32; 38; 38; 27; 37; 34 leaves; an additional 16 leaves in manuscript in 3 of the albums written by Harriet Dana at age 10. Approx. 300 real photos of Harriet & George Ruth Dana Samuel Dana many street scenes numerous large studio photos tipped-in of sights in Rome Florence Dresden and other areas. Over 450 black & white tipped-in photo postcards many of them real photo postcards a few gold-tone photo postcards; approx. 75 tipped-in colour postcards; two letters of introduction from Yale University Secretary Robert Maynard Hutchins letter of introduction from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture William Marion Jardine who served under Presidents Coolidge and Hoover; printed invitations to the Congress World Forestry Congress credentials numerous programs to operas and theaters in European cities; menus to the S.S. President Harding; Menus for the S/Y Meteor; menus for the conferences; Children’s Tea Menu for the S.S. President Harding; Passenger lists for the United States Lines President Harding; tourist maps pictorial maps manuscript annotations and more. Uniformly bound in pebbled black cloth two-ring binders 1 of them with SS President Harding ribbon stretched around the binding wear & rubbing to the corners bumping to the spines a couple of the binders with hinges starting many of the leaves with wear and some loose at the gutter margin still a remarkable archive. An incredible Jazz Age archive of travel photos ephemera and documents assembled by Samuel T. Dana and his daughter Harriet during the family’s five month trip through Europe for the First World Forestry Congress held in Rome Italy. The albums are filled with documentation and souvenirs from their grand tour through Europe. Included are photos of the participants in the World Forestry conference two of them are of Dana’s subcommittee at the meeting many of the registration credentials letters of introduction as well as invitations to meetings and parties associated with the conference. The Dana family had an audience with the Pope in Rome saw Benito Mussolini visited the major sights of Venice with pictures of young George Dana feeding the pigeons in the Plaza in front of St. Mark’s Cathedral. They attended Verdi’s opera La Traviata featuring the soprano Violetta Valery. From there they traveled through France Switzerland Austria Czechoslovakia Germany Denmark Norway Sweden and Finland. They have included their brochures for visiting assorted museums folk festivals operas in Munich historical sights in Prague the beautiful city of Dresden tramped through all parts of Paris voyaged on the S/Y Meteor of the Norwegian Steamship Lines through Sweden Finland and Norway with the special treat of including their menus for breakfasts lunches dinners and children’s teas great photo of the children for the Captain’s tea on the SS President Harding. The photographs feature street scenes in assorted places views from the top of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower many of the people they met in their travels and more. Dana met with foresters and visited timber stands throughout northern Europe and Scandinavia.Of particular interest are the many leaves hand-written by the 10-year old Harriet Dana 1916-2011 describing the places they visited her impressions of the sights the many experiences she had as well as very charming notes from family friends tipped-in which were to be opened during their travels. She has annotated many of the postcards and photos. These albums and her impressions offer an invaluable cultural insight into travel during the Jazz Age for the well-to-do. In addition there are several leaves in manuscript written in both pencil and pen of the prices and types of souvenirs purchased throughout Europe including dolls pennants mosaics many lead soldiers a toy loom toy boat decks of cards clothing china and many different types of jewelry. Harriet Merrill Dana Carroll would later attend Swarthmore college graduate from Yale Nursing School in 1941 and eventually retire in Bethesda Maryland in 1986. Samuel Trask Dana 1883-1978 was a world renowned forestry expert who graduated from Yale in 1907 entered the U.S. Forest Service where he began groundbreaking studies in the culture of renewable white pine and paper birch forests. He established several forest experimental stations intended to further research and promote the economic value of forests. He served in World War I and from 1923 to 1927 was the director of the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station in Amherst Massachusetts where his most significant achievement was helping to organize the First World Forestry Conference. This Congress was significant because he succeeded in helping to establish an international body to compile and track forestry resources all over the world. Subsequently he became the first dean of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources which pioneered many trends in modern forestry. He served as chairman of the U.S. Timber Conservation Board President of the Society of American Foresters was appointed in 1958 by President Eisenhower to serve on the National Outdoor Recreation Review Commission and also studied proposals to preserve California’s redwood forests. Samuel T. Dana & Harriet Dana, hardcover

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 670,06 €

[DANCE SCHOOL PHOTOS -- JAZZ AGE/WOMEN]. [KNOWLES, Annabelle Gertrude (Director); BAKER, Almeron Joseph, BEEM, Ira Kintner & CENBiblio.com

A captivating group of commercial studio photographs of the performers performances and costumes at the Hollywood College of Music Dancing and Fine Arts in Portland Oregon as the Jazz Age descended into the Great Depression. The performers of the “Baby Vanities” and “Kiddie Revue” range in age from 6 & 7 to teenage years including both girls and boys.

1930réf. 58055Portland OR: Hollywood College of Music Dancing & Fine Arts Baker Studio Granada Studio La Vere Photo Shoppe Photo Craft Studios ca. 1930-1933. Oblong 4to. 24 original photographs all preserved in archival mylar sleeves sized 6.25 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative others w/ manuscript captions added a few w/ annotations and/or photographer’s instructions on versos all with bright strong contrast a few w/ offsetting from previous mounting on versos and one w/ very small pinholes at corners from prior mounting. Recent cloth binder stamping front cover excellent grouping. These photographs vividly document the dance and music studio operated by Annabelle Knowles reflecting the fast evolving costumes and aesthetics of the twilight of the Roaring 20’s as the U.S. descended into the Great Depression. These photos also clearly reflect the influence of Gus Edwards 1879-1945 vaudeville’s premier producer of kiddie acts and who had produced and released the shorts “Kiddie Revue” in 1930 and 1931. His influence was not only driven by his songs “By the Light of the Silvery Moon & “School Days” but also discovering such stars as Groucho Marx Eddie Cantor Mae Murray Sally Rand and many others. The images depict girls in two-piece outfits in front of Art Deco staging for “Body and Soul”; bare-backed girls in Flapper Era inspired costumes for chorus line “Kiddie Revue”; song and dance routines featuring Ronald Chetwood in top hat with Marcile Shillito Virginia Collins and chorus line in Jazz Age era costumes and canes; and several show Barbara Jane Wicks Shirley Jay Mulkey and Sunny Dentler in Spanish inspired costumes for “Baby Vanities.” Another shows adolescent boy and girl dance team in an “Apache” dance inspired costume number. The Hollywood College of Music Dance & Fine Arts offered classes and instruction in all ages with the last few photos showing teenage girls in chorus line with short hair coquettish expressions and teamwork or chorus line numbers. Annabelle Knowles 1900-1989 was a musician and dancer who founded the Hollywood College of Music Dancing & FIne Arts at 4112 NE Sandy Blvd. some time in the late 1920’s. Most of the street directory references focus on 1929-1932 and her British-America theatre-director husband at the time Vincent Knowles 1883-1944 worked at the studio as well. Baker 1882-1972 was a longtime commercial studio photographer in Portland OR who had initially begun as a photographer with noted tourist travel guide Howard Eaton photographing tours through National Pakrs. Beem 1892-1984 was founder and photographer at Granada Studio located in the 1930’s at 515 Swetland Building in Portland. Centlivere 1878-1964 owned and operated La Vere Photo Shoppe and Photo Craft Studios on Sandy Blvd. in Portland for nearly all of his career. We could find no similar collections or photographs or even references to Annabelle Knowles and very few examples of any of these three photography studios in institutional holdings. Hollywood College of Music, Dancing & Fine Arts, Baker Studio, Granada Studio, La Vere Photo Shoppe, Photo Craft Studios, hardcover

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 116,77 €

[FASHION -- JAZZ AGE TEXTILES].Biblio.com

Pure wool fabrics. Spring and Summer 1926. Let Taylor do your tailoring; Stock Report and Bargain List. Salesman sample catalogue with original price list and stock on hand.

1926réf. 58100New York & Chicago: J.L. Taylor & Co. 1926. Thick elephant folio 17 x 23.25 x 2.5 ins. 75 3 pp. printed on thick card stock each mounted on linen hinge. With 17 colour fashion plates illustrating Taylor styles of the period verso of almost all pages with 364 of 375 mounted textile samples in wool wool-rayon blends some felt backed silk moleskin corduroy cashmere waistband sample and more -- all samples clearly marked with prices and availability some of the 12 missing samples are indicated in pencil as being “Out” as well as a few present 1 additional pinned-in numerous illustrations throughout in blue-green colour tinting including Chicago & New York factories some diagrams charts and graphs. Original half-green cloth over gray green cloth corners gilt lettering on front cover colour plate w/ J.L. Taylor tailor mounted front cover some wear & minor bumping to fore-edges corners some minor soiling & occasional foxing to interior leaves -- some of it dust from the wool samples 10-15 samples with minor deterioration and evidence of old predation still a very good unsophisticated and remarkably complete example w/ original 9 x 21 in. double-sided stock list in red & black laid-in. First edition of this scarce and unusually complete salesman sample catalogue for Jazz era men’s suits in 1928-1929. J.L. Taylor maintained a huge tailoring operation in both Chicago and New York until after World War II employing hundreds of tailors and seamstresses to fill orders. The catalogues were very expensive to produce and so were most often found in department stores mercantiles and men’s stores which would have these catalogues on the sales floor for two years or more. The catalogue offers invaluable illustrated historical reference for the colours styles and fabrics during the era of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Flappers. Most of the colour fashion plates illustrating the available styles have elegantly dressed women and settings in the background including with an emphasis on sporting in summer so golf tennis croquet canoeing boating and swimming all make an appearance. Of particular interest is the wonderful dress chart indicating styles needed clothes accessories and shoes which one would need for Day Wedding Matinee Reception Evening Dress and many others offering an excellent marketing opportunity for the store to sell the customer items to compliment his suits overcoats and other fashion wear ordered from J.L. Taylor. The final plate focuses on the lightweight “Palm Beach” & “Mohair” suits at the height of the 1920’s boom in Florida featuring snappily dressed models in Panama straw hats and a lightweight fedora. Worldcat locates 1 partial copy Preserved at the Library of Congress stripped of samples and used as scrapbook for Wilbur’s Drug Store prescriptions of Portland ME -- not an unusual occurrence. J.L. Taylor & Co., hardcover

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[Jazz] Bradley, JackBiblio.com

Seven Photographs of Jazz Musicians

1960réf. CAT206New York et al. 1960. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints with Bradley’s estate marks to versos. Excellent. 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 the Boston Armory in 1956. In 1958 he moved to New York from Cape Cod and began dating Jeann Failows a member of Louis Armstrong’s inner circle. Through Failows Bradley gained access to Armstrong eventually becoming very close friends with the trumpeter and his inner circle. Bradley already had amassed a large collection of jazz material much related to Armstrong and he augmented his own collection by photographing Armstrong and his Jazz circle for the next decade. The bulk of Bradley’s collection now resides at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. This collection is of seven photographs of jazz musicians from Bradley’s estate showing a wonderful window into the tail end of the Classic Jazz era. Photographs as follows: Willie Cook. 5 x 7 inches. A portrait of Cook seated. Excellent condition. Count Basie and Duke Ellington. 5 x 7 inches. The two jazz greats are seated at their respective pianos during rehearsal. Excellent condition. Duke Ellington’s Empty Bandstand. 8 x 10 inches. The horns chairs and sheet music are laid out. Very good condition with some toning to margins and a faint scratch at outer edge of image. Duke Ellington Conducting his Band. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo Theatre New York c. 1959. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent Condition. Count Basie Seated at a Table Smoking a Cigar. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. Pee Wee russell Painting at his New York Apartment c. 1966. Good condition marginal tear affecting ½ inch of image. Overall a nice group and an example of a photographer whose work is not often available on the market. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 116,77 €

KING OF JAZZ - THE MUSICAL FILM - PAUL WHITEMANBiblio.com

Original Promotional Photo Signed by Theater Director John Murray Anderson. With a Copy of King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman’s Technicolor Revue by James Layton and David Pierce. Foreword by Michael Feinstein

1930réf. 23072EHollywood CA: 8” x 10” 1930. Original sepia tone promotional photo signed by theater director John Murray Anderson: “To the ‘Imp’ - from Murray Anderson Hollywood. 1930”. The photo shows Mr. Anderson smartly dressed in a three piece suit and tie sitting at a desk pen in hand looking slightly to his left. With the slightly faded inkstamp of the famous movie and theater star photographer James Edward Abbe 1883 - 1973 on the verso. Fine condition. The photo is laid in to a first edition copy of King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman’s Technicolor Revue Severn MD: Media History Press 2016 detailing the making of and the restoration of the film directed John Murray Anderson starring Paul Whitman John Boles and Laura La Plante. Oversize 303 pages extensively indexed and illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket. John Murray Anderson 1886 - 1954 worked in almost every genre of show business including vaudeville Broadway and film. He made his Broadway debut in 1919 as a writer director and producer of The Greenwich Follies. In the 20s and 30s he ran an acting school in Manhattan teaching Bette Davis and Lucille Ball among others. Anderson produced the Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 1936 and 1943 as well as directing plays in London’s West End. Some of his other contributions include directing at Radio City Music Hall and Ringling Brothers Circus from 1942 - 1951. Anderson’s work in Hollywood includes in addition to directing King of Jazz 1930 writing the screenplay for Ziegfeld Follies 1946 with Fred Astaire William Powell Judy Garland and Lucille Ball directing the water ballets in Bathing Beauty with Esther Williams Red Skelton and Basil Rathbone and the circus sequences in The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 with Charlton Heston Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde. 8” x 10” unknown

James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 116,77 €

JAZZ PIANISTSBiblio.com

Group of five original photographic portraits of Paul Bley Bill Evans Tommy Flanagan Wynton Kelly and John Lewis.

1950réf. 1726311950-60s. Attractive collection of portraits of five jazz greats those of Paul Bley and John Lewis are vintage prints from the studio of Burt Goldblatt with wet stamps on verso. Goldblatt's New York Times obituary describes him as "a prolific designer of moody jazz LP album covers. In the early 1950s after the introduction of the LP the most progressive American cover designs were created for jazz albums and Mr. Goldblatt was among the pioneers in establishing the cool-jazz style. It encompassed black-and-white portraits and studio photographs inspired by film noir as well as gritty street scenes often abstractly overlaid with flat colours evoking a sense of urban night life". The study of Paul Bley shows him performing at the Newport Jazz Festival where Goldblatt was very much the house photographer publishing an illustrated history of the festival in 1977. Bley in the avant-garde of developments in the music "has produced vivid vital jazz couched in an advanced and challenging idiom" Cook & Morton. That of John Lewis - leader of the MJQ one of the most successful small groups in jazz - is an intimate close-up shot of him at the keyboard. Bill Evans is shown standing at the keyboard working through some changes with another musician perhaps drummer Kenny Clarke; the figure at Evans's elbow may be fellow-pianist Hank Jones. Similarly Tommy Flanagan sporting a flat cap and plaid shirt is going over material with drummer Roy Haynes. Flanagan is perhaps best known for his work accompanying Ella Fitzgerald and Tony Bennett emerging in the '70s and '80s as "a bebopper of gentlemanly distinction" Cook & Morton. The shot of Wynton Kelly is a delightful unguarded portrait showing him at the piano smiling and clearly in conversation sporting a hat with upturned brim and hip suit. Like Evans Kelly played on Miles Davis's timeless album Kind of Blue and is described by the All About Jazz website as "a superb accompanist loved by Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley". Five original silver gelatin prints each 254 x 200 mm. Bley: identified on verso in black felt tip Burt Goldblatt wetstamp; Evans: identified on verso in pencil; Flanagan: identified on verso in pencil; Kelly: ghost of tape marks on verso; Lewis: identified on verso in blue ballpoint Burt Goldblatt wetstamp. Very slight blue ink smudging to the front of the image of Bley otherwise all in excellent condition. Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings eighth ed. 2006. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni950,00 £GB≈ 1 134,63 €

NATION OF ISLAM - JAZZBiblio.com

Pair of handbills for Black Family Day Part 2.

1974réf. 149163New York: Nation of Islam 1974. Scarce original handbills for the second of two extraordinary Black Family Days organized by the Nation of Islam in 1974 staged at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island New York and featuring music by among others Lionel Hampton Eddie Palmieri Machito Gil Scott-Heron Jimmy Cliff and "modern black music giants" Max Roach Clifford Jordan Archie Shepp and Jackie McLean. Black Family Day Part 2 was held on 15 September and followed Part 1 held in May the latter described as "the largest gathering of African-Americans in the history of Harlem" Clarke p. 189 when an estimated 70000 people attended and Farrakhan's address was recorded and distributed on the Nation of Islam's own label. "In September Scott-Heron joined Eddie Palmieri and Celia Cruz to perform at the Nation of Islam's Black Family Day at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island at the top of the East River below the Triborough Bridge. A stone's throw from where Robert Moses and the Triborough Commission ran their empire Brother Reverend Louis Farrakhan spoke for two hours to around twenty thousand people denouncing the United States as 'the wickedest nation on the face of the earth' under sunny fall skies. Jimmy Cliff sang 'I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave'" Hermes. 2 handbills 266 x 190 276 x 223 mm printed on white and orange paper respectively text in Spanish on the latter both printed in black each incorporating a portrait of Louis Farrakhan the larger of the two with additional portraits of Eddie Palmieri Machito and Gil Scott-Heron. Each with lateral crease where once folded otherwise in excellent condition. Peter B. Clarke ed. New Trends and Developments in African Religions Westport Connecticut Greenwood Press 1998; Will Hermes Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years That Changed Music Forever Penguin 2014. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni975,00 £GB≈ 1 164,49 €

[Jazz - Japan]Biblio.com

The Newest Pocket Jazz

1938réf. 33168Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company 1938. Very Good. Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company 1938. Presumed First Edition. 12mo 15.5 cm; publisher's pictorial yellow and orange card wrappers lettered in black; 1923pp.; brief illus. sheet music throughout. Moderate wear and dust-soiled to wrappers small loss mid-spine briefly affecting text textblock a bit browned and foxed else Very Good bright and sound. Evidently unrecorded Japanese guide to popular jazz music the first half almost entirely in Japanese the latter half bilingual primarily in Japanese and English. Includes the music for classics by Jerome Kern like "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"; Romberg and Hammerstein's "Lover Come Back To Me"; Moises Simons' Cuban rumba foxtrot "The Peanut Vendor"; instantly recognizable classics like "Blue Moon" and "La Cucaracha"; and songs by Mabel Wayne and Irving Berlin. The compilation also includes songs in Spanish French and German accompanied by its Japanese translation. A fascinating and beautiful little guide documenting the rise in popularity of Jazz music in Japan and Tokyo in particular issued between the devastating earthquake of 1923 and the beginning of World War II. The import of Jazz to Japan was first heralded with the rise in trans-Pacific luxury liners. A Japanese version of "My Blue Heaven" reproduced here became available as early as the 1920s and the popular 1929 Japanese film "Tokyo March" employed Jazz in its soundtrack. The genre was popular enough that Columbia and Victor records formed subsidiary companies in Japan. The popularity of jazz in Japan continues to this day touted by one of the country's most prominent public and literary figures Haruki Murakami who first opened his Jazz club right out of college after falling in love with the genre at an Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers show in Kobe in 1964. No copies of this work located in OCLC as of June 2025. References: "How Japan Came To Love Jazz" online interview with historian E. Taylor Atkins author of "Blue Nippon" "Jazz Messenger" by Haruki Murakami available online. Symphony Publishing Company unknown

Capitol Hill Books, ABAA · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 340,12 €

[African-Americana - Jazz - Radio] Bradford, Walter FelixBiblio.com

Photograph of Bradford's Orchestra an African American Pittsburgh Ensemble Directed by Walter Felix Bradford which Broadcast on KDKA in the Early Years of Radio

1922réf. BK0009Pittsburgh: Sissman Studio 1922. Photograph measuring approximately 8 x 10 inches. Studio portrait of nine African American musicians posed with saxophones brass instruments violin banjo drums and other instruments with a rug prominently lettered "Bradford's Orchestra" at their feet. Photographer identified as Sissman Studio of Pittsburgh. Some wear and toning particularly at edges and corners; generally well preserved. An early photograph of Bradford's Orchestra an African American ensemble active in Pittsburgh under the direction of Walter Felix Bradford during the early 1920s. Nine musicians pose with an unusually extensive display of their instruments while the orchestra's name is incorporated prominently into the composition on a rug at their feet. The photograph was made by Sissman Studio a Pittsburgh photographic firm later located on Centre Avenue in the city's Hill District. Contemporary sources document Bradford's Orchestra performing over Pittsburgh's pioneering radio station KDKA during this period. A December 1922 program announced an 8:30 evening "Concert by Bradford's Orchestra under the direction of Walter Felix Bradford" with a varied program ranging from Mendelssohn and Verdi to popular marches and light orchestral music.1 The group is also listed as performing on KDKA in the Utica Observer-Dispatch in December 1922.2 The present photograph appears to be an otherwise unrecorded studio portrait of the same Pittsburgh organization. Bradford belonged to a substantial but poorly documented community of African American bandleaders and musicians working in Pittsburgh during the early twentieth century. Later accounts of musical life in the Hill District place him alongside such local ensembles as the Harlem Troubadours Gerty Long and Her Night Hawks and Walt Rainey's High Schoolers.3 These local orchestras formed an important part of the musical culture from which Pittsburgh would subsequently produce an extraordinary generation of nationally prominent Black musicians. 1 "Monday December 11 1922" Radio Broadcasting News 2 no. 28 December 9 1922 6. 2 "To-day's Radio Program" The Utica Observer-Dispatch December 11 1922 5. 3 Hugo A. Freund "Working the Seams: African American Professional Performers Moving Between White Public Culture and African American Private Culture" Pennsylvania Folklife 45 no. 2 1996: 91-97. . Sissman Studio unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis1 650,00 $US≈ 1 474,14 €

[JAZZ BAND ARCHIVE -- BIG BAND LEADER PORTLAND, OR, CALIFORNIA & WASHINGTON]. [LEWIS, Lyle Erwin].Biblio.com

An outstanding archive of souvenir photographs ephemera scrapbooks and daily diaries chronicling the fortunes of a popular Jazz Band musician and Big Band Leader in the Pacific Northwest and California during the Roaring 20’s. Lewis directed and played for the house bands of the Congress Hotel Multnomah Hotel McElroy’s Spanish Ballroom orchestra leader at the Coronado Beach Hotel in California Portland Night Club Garden Dancing Palace in Spokane WA and the famed Bungalow Club in Seaside OR.

1920réf. 62329Portland OR Spokane WA San Francisco CA & Seaside OR: Lyle E. Lewis Dance Orchestra ca. 1920-1944. Eight vols. 1st - 4to. 48 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper w/ 100’s of pieces of ephemera mounted and laid-in including 7 silver gelatin photographs sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. many different TLS and ALS most on stationery letterhead for assorted hotels KGW Radio and others many newspaper clippings tickets promotional brochures advertising cards dance tickets along with a spoof printed “Wanted” notice for Ted Mullen alias Sourdough Sullen with $ 500 million reward offered and large double-page advertising broadside on yellow-gold tinged thick paper stock at rear for gig in Astoria OR under the auspices of the Co. L 186th Infantry Oregon National Guard. Contemporary pebbled black boards punch-sewn at gutter margin chipping edgewear still VG- exemplar; 2nd - 4to. 92 pp unpaginated w/ majority of leaves on ruled paper including 18 leaves of mylar sleeves featuring the majority of the 23 silver gelatin photographs most sized 8 x 10 in. photographer’s imprints on versos remainder w/ clippings promotional announcements tickets broadsides ALS & TLS documents throughout along with a long radio program script. Contemporary 2-ring blue cloth binder rounded corners some edgewear rubbing still VG; 3rd-7th - 16mo. Five daily diaries Approx. 700 pp unpaginated. w/ approx. 4000 words manuscript annotations in ink & pencil throughout featuring some laid-in miniature photos receipts business cards including 1 photographic souvenir business card for Cole McElroy’s Dance Band and Cole McElroy’s Spanish Ballroom 1 tiny postage stamp photo of Lewis at his bungalow in Seaside all bound in cloth some wear still VG grouping; 8th - 12mo. Approx. 150 pp unpaginated. of ruled paper mostly typescript ink & pencil manuscript some ruling throughout annotations & checkmarks last 4th or so blank. Flexible black cloth 6-ring binder business card for Lewis as Commercial Agent for ACME Fast Freight taped in on front pastedown 3 blank routing order forms in red & black some scuffing edgewear still VG all from the library of Genevieve Martha Lewis Levin 1911-1994. This unusually well-preserved archive of a Roaring 20’s Jazz Orchestra musician and Band Leader in the Pacific Northwest reveals the exuberance and business success of this largely forgotten artist through his successful years before foundering during the Great Depression. Both scrapbooks open with clippings thank you and recommendation letters as well as dance broadsides and photographs during 1926 at the height of Lyle Lewis’s orchestra appreciation. Testimonials include B.J. Saad who owned the Garden Dancing Palace and stated “I have taken the Garden which is second to no other ballroom west of Chicago. That is why I have secured Lyle Lewis recognized as one of the best orchestra leaders on the Coast.” C.W. Craig of Lipman Wolfe & Co. department store extolls that Jazz music dance held at the Multnomah Hotel March 16 1926 that “I don’t think we have ever enjoyed better or more up to date dance music than that furnished by your splendid aggregation.” Broadsides and notices advertise the Lewis Jazz Orchestra playing the Grand Ball Room at the Masonic Temple Congress Hotel leading McElroy’s Oregonians at the McElroy’s Spanish Ballroom the Dessert Hotel Oasis near Spokane parties for Studebaker and more. One of the mounted letters includes a rather sad severance letter signed by Cole McElroy explaining the circumstances of Lyle Lewis’s leaving stating “I realise that you were a victim of circumstances. On account of the fact that you had a fine band organized. . . certain music masters of the theatre jobs saw fit to take your men away from you thereby breaking up your fine band and forcing me to make a deal for another organization.” McElroy 1888-1947 was known as “Pop” McElroy was a popular band leader who during the years before World War I and after played the Palm Gardens often and had great success in his McElroy Spanish Ballroom which opened in 1926 and then opened another Seattle McElroy Ballroom in 1928. Several TLS on letterheads include those for KXL Radio station KGW Radio Station and the KOIN Studio Director for The Portland News which played three nights a week on air for over six months. The many photographs capture the Lyle Lewis band joking around with their instruments on the road fully arrayed on stage in the Radio Station posing at various venues stages and even one as late as 1939 conducting the Lyle E. Lewis Dance Orchestra. The band included Cluet Mansfield formerly with Henry Halsted band William Webber on drums Eddie Scroggins & Frank Champion as sax players G. Berardinelli on Bass and also played dances at the Irvington Club Multnomah Athletic Club and for a while with the historic Congress Hotel in Portland which had been the City’s first reinforced concrete building erected during the Progressive Era and by 1924 expanded to 119 rooms with vibrant Jazz ballroom. The daily diaries for 1929 and 1930 show that Lewis regularly played at the Cotillion Hall now the Crystal Ballroom initially at $ 7.00 per night in 1929 and then steadily dropping to less than half by 1933. He writes about traveling for a gig in San Francisco with Mansfield in 1929 leaving Tuesday and arriving Wednesday Sept. 18 1929 driving 40 mph and getting 19 miles to the gallon with a drive made in 19 hours and 15 minutes. He played extensively at the Bungalow Club in Seaside OR which had opened originally June 19 1920 and for more than 25 years was the destination for the biggest names in the Big Band Jazz era including Lyle E. Lewis Cole McElroy Duke Ellington Bob Crosby Glenn Miller and tragically became connected with the death of Jimmie Lunceford who died from a heart attack just before playing his last set at the Bungalow after playing McElroy’s Ballroom in Portland 2 nights before. Lewis 1890-1948 was a popular Portland Oregon based jazz band & orchestra leader who managed to lie about his age and enlist at 15 in the Oregon National Guard Co. G 3rd Battalion served for three years and in May 1910 married Genevieve Franklin while working as salesman and musician before World War I Following the War he quickly became a successful band leader including successful stints with the Cole McElroy Spanish Ballroom Congress Hotel Multnomah Hotel Bungalow Garden Ballroom as well as the Coronado Hotel in California. As indicated by the daily diaries he maintained a fairly close relationship with his daughter Genevieve “Martha” but became largely estranged from his wife Genevieve living in separate rooming houses or hotels. Still in her position as a sales manager she managed to convince Meier & Frank to hire him as their house band for store functions and the restaurant while during the Great Depression he mostly worked for the US Forest Service mapping division while his show business largely disappeared. By 1943 he became the commercial agent for ACME Fast Freight where he worked as commercial agent until his death. This cataloguer could find no surviving recorded discography record for Lyle E. Lewis and his assorted incarnations although there are a few recordings for the Cole McElroy Band from 1926-1928 which most likely would have included him as band leader and musician. Lyle E. Lewis, Dance Orchestra, hardcover

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HEFNER, Hugh - JAZZBiblio.com

3 discs cut specially for Hugh Hefner: recordings by Duke Ellington and Artie Shaw.

1960réf. 149122Chicago: Hugh Hefner c. 1960s. Lay back and think of Ellington A trio of discs cut specially for Playboy founder Hugh Hefner comprising two recordings by Duke Ellington "Mood Indigo" and "Sophisticated Lady" and one by Artie Shaw "Begin the Beguine". Each label printed in pink: "Custom Pressed by Jukeboxes Unlimited for Hugh M. Hefner" and bearing Playboy's rabbit logo and typed identification. "Hugh Hefner's initial exposure to music and especially to jazz like that of most people was through vinyl recordings and he's always been a record collector" Farmer p. 71. He was also the owner of a magnificent 1946 Wurlitzer 1015 jukebox see his sale at Julien's Auctions 30 November 2018. That lot was offered with 24 "original" 78rpm recordings by a group of artists including Artie Shaw Frank Sinatra Lena Horne and Harry James. Whether these discs were specially cut as here we have not been able to ascertain. What is certain however is the Playboy kingpin's love of jazz. "In this invented lifestyle for the modern age Hef decided that jazz was the go-to soundtrack. Jazz was the hippest music around and had been for decades. Playboy championed jazz at a time when most music critics were looking in all the wrong places for a truly American art form. Even the most forward-thinking composers of the era the Aaron Coplands and their ilk were still just building upon the European tradition. Jazz was bursting at the seams of the staid and academic classical world ripe with musical development rivalling the greatest of the old European masters. In 1957 Playboy produced a two-record set of their Jazz All-Star series featuring performers from Pops to Frank Sinatra to Dave Brubeck. They produced a second edition in 1958 and a third in 1959. Hefner then held the first Playboy Jazz Festival at Chicago Stadium in 1959" Jeff Fitzgerald at allaboutjazz website 28 September 2017. As a coda the jazz-soaked "Playboy's Theme" written and performed by Cy Coleman was the signature tune of the regular late night TV show Playboy's Penthouse. 3 aluminium-cored one-sided 10 inch acetate discs each with original label both Ellington discs with additional drive-pin hole; original plain paper sleeves annotated in ink possibly in Hefner's hand. Sleeves rather brittle torn and chipped with some loss but just about intact; a few abrasions and finger marks to discs. Patty Farmer and Will Friedwald Playboy Swings!: How Hugh Hefner and Playboy Changed the Face of Music 2015. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 500,00 £GB≈ 1 791,52 €

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Personnages Principaux du Bar.

1937réf. 171091Paris: c. 1937. Jazz à la parisienne From the collection of Rolling Stones drummer and jazz aficionado Charlie Watts with his posthumous bookplate: a delightful and highly unusual illustrated "prospectus" of the requisites for running a successful bar in Paris in the late 1930s. First and foremost you'll need "un très bon pianiste nêgre" along with "2 barmaids" and of course "2 ou 3 nêgresses à laisser vagabonder dans le bar". There then follow three pages that offer pen portraits of various artists that you might like to include on the bill along with their contact details. These include "acteurs animant la soirée ou la nuit": character actor and singer Yves Deniaud 1901-1959 Neapolitan sinti jazz guitarist Henri Crolla 1920-1960 "a travaillé avec Djingo Rainart sic du Hot-club de France" "Trois Jeunes - chanteurs s'accompagnant à la guitare et à la flute" including another well-known actor Guy Decomble 1910-1964 and the photographer Pierre Jamet 1910-2000 a close friend of Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis. The flamboyant impresario Henri Leduc winds up the volume described as a "personnage comique indispensable à l'atmosphere d'un bar". After the Liberation Leduc a native of Montmartre set up Le Bar Vert on the rue Jacob "the first café-restaurant to play American music" Cowan & Steward p. 234. Our unidentified artist concludes by remarking "We can find for you absolutely everything that you could possibly need elephants - naked ladies - non naked ladies - a 'bus - &c. &c. - whales". Quarto. Five pages of original artwork in pencil crayon and pastel with accompanying text. Commercial sketchbook by L. Bourdillon original blue card wrappers. Variably sunning to wrappers which show lght signs of handling contents toned pale tidemark to edges of leaves front blank professionally restored at the corners but overall very good. Alexander Cowan & Jill Steward eds. The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500 2007. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 500,00 £GB≈ 1 791,52 €

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