ID 1029169
Lot 518 | Photograph signed
Estimate value
£ 1 200 – 1 800
Table photograph of Charlie Parker with a group of fellow musicians at the Hi-Hat Club, Boston, circa 1950, signed and inscribed by Charlie Parker: ‘all my RESPECT TO THE GREATEST, Charlie Parker’, additionally signed and inscribed to the recipients by other members of the party including trumpeter Tommy Di Carlo, drummer Paul Drummond, bass player Sonny Dee, trumpeter Joe Gordon, and clarinettist and saxophonist Henry “Boots” Mussulli, who appears to have signed under the nom de plume ‘Buddy Mack’, in corresponding souvenir photo folder mount, annotated verso with Drummond and Di Carlo’s telephone numbers.
Vintage gelatin silver print, 127 x 176 mm, in corresponding souvenir photo folder mount (folder cover lacking), 165 x 218 mm. Provenance: The Norman R. Saks Collection (Vail, p.64).
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