ID 1029194
Los 543 | JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC
Schätzwert
£ 1 000 – 1 500
The 15th National Tour was renamed the 16th National Tour just weeks before the tour started, making this a straight run of programmes. The Jazz at the Philharmonic series began with a concert organised by jazz impresario Norman Granz at Los Angeles’ Philharmonic Auditorium on 2 July 1944. The ever-changing group recorded and toured extensively, with Granz producing some of the first live jam session recordings to be distributed to a wide market. After several JATP concerts in Los Angeles in 1944 and 1945, Granz began producing JATP concert tours, from late fall of 1945 to 1957 in USA and Canada, and from 1952 in Europe. They featured swing and bop musicians and were among the first high-profile performances to feature racially integrated bands. Granz also insisted on integrated audiences and equal treatment for white and black artists.
During the 16th National JATP Tour in Houston, Texas, in 1955, Granz reportedly removed segregated restroom signs outside the concert auditorium. Between the two shows, Houston police barged in to Ella Fitzgerald’s dressing room, arresting Ella, Dizzy Gillespie and Illinois Jacquet. As per the news clipping on the reverse of the photo, dated 9 October 1955, ‘Ella Fitzgerald, three other members of the “Jazz at the Philharmonic troupe,” and the producer Norman Granz were free today on $10 bond each after having been charged last night with shooting dice backstage during the performance.’ Granz biographer Tad Hershorn wrote of the incident: ‘As in 1954, JATP’s 1955 tour included a racial incident in a southern city that was provoked by Granz’s integrationist policy: in this case, a trumped-up gambling arrest backstage at Houston’s Music Hall during an October 7, 1955, double-header that made headlines internationally. Granz later said he wanted to challenge segregation in the South even more than he wanted to deliver good music, and Houston’s wealth and power made it an especially tempting target’. Hershorn, 244-6.
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