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“EVERYBODY HAS A STORY ABOUT CHET BAKER”
WEBER, Bruce. Let's Get Lost. New York, 1988. First edition of the companion piece to Weber’s movie about legendary trumpeter Chet Baker. $3200.
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INSCRIBED BY DUKE ELLINGTON
ELLINGTON, Duke. Hurricane Club Souvenir signed. WITH: Photograph. New York, circa 1943. Two items. Vintage souvenir program from New York’s legendary Hurricane nightclub, circa 1943, partial front wrapper, boldly inscribed on the verso by Ellington, “To Charlotte & ‘Strick’ & their Memories, May they always Be Pleasurable, Eve and Duke,” accompanied by a scarce vintage photographic print of Ellington and Beatrice “Evie” Ellis, his longtime companion and love of his life, both seated in the club at a table with the uniformed serviceman and his companion who are the likely recipients of Ellington’s warm inscription. $3200.
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INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM CLAXTON
CLAXTON, William and BERENDT, Joachim E. Jazzlife. Offenburg, 1961. First edition, abundantly illustrated with over 20 pages of color photographs and many more of black-and-white photographs of jazz musicians and their audiences across the United States, inscribed by the photographer on the half title in the year of publication, “For Rudi, William Claxton 1961.” $2800.
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VINTAGE BROWN-TONED PRINT INSCRIBED BY LOUIS ARMSTRONG, ALONG WITH TWO ADDITIONAL PRINTS
ARMSTRONG, Louis. Photograph inscribed. AND: Two photographs (unsigned). Chicago, circa 1933. Three vintage brown-toned promotional prints of a young Louis Armstrong at the emergence of his “big band period,” one featuring Armstrong at a microphone with his trumpet raised, inscribed, “My Best wishes, To Walter Hawkins, From Louis Armstrong, 3/20/33,” with two additional vintage prints, one duplicating the first, the other of a smiling Armstrong in a three-quarter pose with his trumpet. $2400.
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INSCRIBED BY DUKE ELLINGTON
ELLINGTON, Duke. Signed photograph. New York, 1955. Formal publicity photograph of Duke Ellington, undoubtedly arranged by Ellington’s New York publicist Joe Morgen, boldly inscribed, “To Charlie Price Jr, My Very Best Wishes, Duke Ellington.” $2200.
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BEAUTIFUL POSTER-SIZE PHOTOGRAVURE OF ELLA FITZGERALD, INSCRIBED BY ACCLAIMED PHOTOGRAPHER WILLIAM GOTTLIEB
GOTTLIEB, William P. Photograph inscribed. New York, 1998. Poster-size black-and-white photogravure of Ella Fitzgerald singing as Dizzy Gillespie looks on, an image from William Gottlieb’s critically acclaimed The Golden Age of Jazz, inscribed below the caption: “to Joel from Bill Gottlieb.” $1800.
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SIGNED BY LOUIS ARMSTRONG, VELMA MIDDLETON AND THE BAND
(ARMSTRONG, Louis). (MIDDLETON, Velma). Document signed (concert program). No place, no date [circa 1953]. Vintage concert program booklet, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, signed on the front cover by Louis Armstrong, singer Velma Middleton and Armstrong band members Trummy Young (trombone), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Arvell Shaw (bass), Billy Kyle (piano) and Barrett Deems (drums). $1750.
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SIGNED BY “SATCHMO” AND VELMA MIDDLETON
(ARMSTRONG, Louis). (MIDDLETON, Velma). Document signed (concert program). No place, no date [1957]. Vintage concert program booklet, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, signed in green ink on the front cover “Satchmo, Louis Armstrong,” further signed by singer Velma Middleton at her photograph. $1650.
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INSCRIBED BY DUKE ELLINGTON
ELLINGTON, Duke. Signed photograph. No place, no date. Vintage photograph of Duke Ellington, inscribed: “To Willard Mulvany, Love You Dearly, Duke Ellington.” $1500.
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“HIS FERTILITY AND INVENTION IS WITHOUT PARALLEL”
ELLINGTON, Duke. Photograph inscribed. New York, 1943. Vintage publicity photograph of Duke Ellington, boldly inscribed, “To Edith, good luck, Duke Ellington.” $1400.
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