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[MUSIC]. A group of 3 posters promoting performances by jazz musicians, incl. Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and Hugh Masekela.
Estimate: $400-$600
Sold
$225
Live Auction
American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Location
Cincinnati
Description

[MUSIC]. A group of 3 posters promoting performances by jazz musicians, incl. Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and Hugh Masekela.


Norman Granz Presents an Evening with Ella Fitzgerald. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles. [Brussels, Belgium], 4 February 1968. 12 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. poster (folds, some creasing throughout, edge and corner wear including small pinholes to top edge and chipping, surface abrasion near lower right edge). "Belgique" ink stamp near lower right corner.

[With:] Columbia Artists Festivals presents Dizzy Gillespie in Concert. New York, NY: Artcraft Lithograph & Printing Co., n.d., ca 1980. 14 x 22 in. poster on cardstock (light edge wear including some creasing to edges). Featuring a portrait of Gillespie at center after a photograph by Martin Cohen.

[Also with:] JORDAN, Ken, artist. Hugh Masekela & the Union of South Africa and the Crusaders. "A people's concert" Sat., July 31, 8:00pm, Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. New York, NY, n.d., ca early 1970s. 21 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. poster (toning, some spotting, creasing throughout, edge and corner wear including chipping and some short tears, several pinholes near corners).

Together, 3 posters.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Condition
Freeman's I Hindman strives to describe historic materials in a manner that is respectful to all communities, providing descriptive contexts for objects where possible. The nature of historical ephemera is such that some material may represent positions, language, values, and stereotypes that are not consistent with the current values and practices at Freeman's I Hindman.