Souvenir programme for the Festival International 1949 de Jazz at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, 8-15th May 1949, signed on the corresponding interior photo pages by over forty of the musicians who performed at the festival

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Lot 176 | Souvenir programme for the Festival International 1949 de Jazz at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, 8-15th May 1949, signed on the corresponding interior photo pages by over forty of the musicians who performed at the festival
Souvenir programme for the Festival International 1949 de Jazz at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, 8-15th May 1949, signed on the corresponding interior photo pages by over forty of the musicians who performed at the festival

Charles “Charlie,” Jr. Parker

PARKER, Charles “Charlie,” Jr. (1920-1955), Miles DAVIS (1926-1991), et al.



Souvenir programme for the Festival International 1949 de Jazz at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, 8-15th May 1949, signed on the corresponding interior photo pages by over forty of the musicians who performed at the festival, including Charlie Parker – 'To Cliff, Charlie Parker' – at his full page portrait; Sidney Bechet, similarly inscribed 'To Cliff' at his portrait; Miles Davis – 'Good luck to you, Miles Davis'; Max Roach – 'Cliff, Good Luck, Max Roach'; “Hot Lips” Page – 'To my boy “Cliff”, Very Blowingly, “Hot Lips” Page'; Tadd Dameron – 'To Cliff, Don’t B flat, Don’t B sharp, Just B natural, Best Wishes, Tadd Dameron'; Kenny Dorham; Kenny Clarke; Tommy Potter; Don Byas; James moody; Bill Coleman; Russell Moore; Jimmy McPartland; Al Haig; Carlo Krahmer and seven members of his band; together with a loosely inserted printed programme for the festival. The programme belonged to Cliff Anderson, a skilled British Guianan featherweight boxer, who attended the Salle Pleyel on 15 May.



Originally wire-stitched, recently resewn in the original light card cover wraps, 315 x 249 mm. Provenance: Cliff Anderson (1921-1998; British Guianan featherweight boxer) - International Autograph Auctions, Nottingham, 20 September 2014, lot 369.



[With:] WATTS, Charlie (1941-2021). Ode to a Highflying Bird. London: Beat Publications Ltd, [1965]. First edition, first impression. Small octavo. Illustrations in colour throughout by the author. Price label of ‘Seven Shillings’ tipped to front free endpaper. Original white boards, titles to covers in black, portrait of the author to rear cover. (See note, lot 171.)

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