Band Leader (24 results)

Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Carl Fischer, New York City, copyright 1897 & 1900. 86 pages, 4p publisher advertisements. Music. 6 x 4.5", printed red wrapper. Wrap trifle rubbed, soiled, VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Slim quarto, 12pp including publisher's pictorial wrappers, staple-bound (presentation inscription from "Merle" at bottom of rear cover, small area of sticker discoloration to front cover, with additional soiling, creases and general wear, else good to very good).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Slim folio, 52pp including pictorial wrappers, staple-bound, a collection of songs with musical bars, diagrams for guitar, and chord names for Uke & Banjo (small area with sticker discoloration to rear cover, small area where stick has torn away part of front cover, moderate rubbing and creases, else very good).

Diskette. Condition: Good. First Edition. THIS IS A VINYL RECORD NOT A CD! mono EP. Book.

Condition: New.

FOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT (dito mit Widmung für Thomas zum gleichen Preis) (dito : Foto mit Unterschrift 60 er Jahre für Euro 25,-, Großes Foto,8° mit Unterschrift, vor seinem Orchester stehend für Euro 40,- ; wie vor mit U. auch aller Orchestermitglieder 1959 für Euro 60,-).

See Roy's entry in the Oxford DNB. He part-wrote and performed the perennially popular 'My Girl's Pussy', with other songs with suggestive titles. The two men's careers both began in the 1920s, and Daniels played in the band of Roy's brother Sid Roy. The two signatures laid down on an 8.5 x 7 piece cut from the leaf from an autograph album. Somewhat discoloured, otherwise in good condition. ONE: Signature of 'Harry Roy'. On 6 x 4.5 cm slip of paper. Large signature, with the downstrokes of the final letter y's extending unusually far. TWO: Signature of 'Joe Daniels'. On 8 x 2 cm slip of paper. Contains typed valediction of letter: 'Yours truly, / One of the Drumming Fraternity. / [signed] Joe Daniels'. The slip with Daniels' signature has been laid down over the bottom 0.25 cm of the slip with Roy's, covering the bottom of the 2cm downstrokes of his letter y's, but not in an obtrusive way.

Briefkarte (Leinen, blanko) mit eigenhändiger Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert.

AUTOGRAMMKARTE mit E.Notenzeile, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert.

FOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT - mit JAN & KJELD, alle 3 U.! (E.Albumblatt mit E.Notenzeile,Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert, um 1955, rs. aufgezogenes Porträtfoto mit Unterschrift von MICHAEL BERGER für Euro 48,-).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 8. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1919 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 8.

S/W-Fotoporträtpostkarte (Electrola, Columbia), eigenhändig signiert.

Condition: Very good. - A sheet of cream card stock is folded to form 4 sides, each 4-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide, printed and illustrated in blue. Signed in ink "Harry James" on the cover above a vignette of a band and a couple in evening dress dancing. There is a very light crease along the bottom edge of the card. Very good. Eastwood Gardens was a dance hall in Detroit, Michigan, which closed in 1953. The 1942 date of the signature is presumed because Harry James performed at "Michigan Theater" on August 28, 1942.On the two inner sides of the Eastwood card is a menu of beers, soft drinks, wines and champagne served there with prices. Their special Padre Sec California champagne is pictured on the 4th side with the price of their champagne cocktail.Harry James [1916-1983] was an American musician best known as a trumpet player and band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his remarkable technical proficiency and superior tone on the trumpet. He was extremely influential on up-and-coming trumpet players from the late 1930s to the 1940s.

Ephemera no binding. Condition: Good +. [EPHEMERA] [MILITARY]. Folio (13 ¾" x 10 ½"); 5pp; bifold wrapper with one leaf; pictorial wrapper in red and blue, half-screen photographic illustrations with relief decorations in red; purple seller's stamp on bottom of page 3 "Forest Music Store Fall River, Mass."; chipping to edges, creasing to corners, 4" separation at head of fold, 1" separation at foot, fragile fold; good plus. Located 4 in OCLC. A scarce military regimental march with good wrapper color and illustration. David Reeves (1838-1900) was a composer, band leader, and early developer of the American-style musical march. John Phillip Sousa called Reeves the "Father of Band Music in America" and was much impressed with the Second Regiment March. Chesebrough, University of Connecticut.

Vintage piano sheet music in illustrated paper covers with monochrome photograph of Reuben Bloom to the front cover. 12'' x 9¾''. Contains 45 pages + covers. Scored for the pianoforte. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.

Misc. paginations: preliminaries - 4 pp; each of the 12 program scripts - 8 to 14 pp. ~ 25 binder's blank leaves at rear. Illustrated with 12 original photographs of the divers muscians, etc. that performed during this series. 10-7/8" x 8-3/8" The volume contains the scripts for the 12 programs produced for this series: 1- Duke Ellington. 13 June 1956. 2. Dixieland Swing. Earl "Fatha" Hines. 20 June 1956. 3. The Blues. Clancy Hayes, Ralph Sutton, Lizzie Miles - Soloists. 27 June 1956. 4. Movieland. Andre Previn. 4 July 1956. 5. Birdland. Carmen McCrae & the Australian Jazz Quintet. 11 July 1956. 6. Voices in Modern. The Four Freshmen. 18 July 1956. 7. Hall of Fame. Clancy Hayes, Ralph Sutton, Lizzie Miles - Soloists. 25 July 1956. 8. Louis Jordan. Dottie Smith - Vocalist. August 1, 1956, 9. Jazz Singers. June Christy-Guest; Lizzie Miles & Clancy Hayes - Vocals. 8/8/56. 10. Rampart Street Paraders. Claire Austin & Clancy Hayes - Soloists. 8/29/56. 11. Cab Calloway. Ralph Sutton & Clancy Hayes - Soloists. 9/5/56. 12. Jazz Piano. Earl Hines, Jeri Southern, Jesse Crump, Bobby Timmons, Ralph Sutton - Guests. 9/12/56. Modest wear to binding. A VG copy. Original red buckram cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine 1st printing. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Kever on the ffep to one "Clay", thanking him for the assistance on the series.

Eight vols. 1st - 4to. [48 pp (unpaginated).], on thick black paper, w/ 100's of pieces of ephemera mounted, and laid-in, including 7 silver gelatin photographs, sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in., many different TLS and ALS, most on stationery letterhead for assorted hotels, KGW Radio, and others, many newspaper clippings, tickets, promotional brochures, advertising cards, dance tickets, along with a spoof printed "Wanted" notice for Ted Mullen, alias Sourdough Sullen with $ 500 million reward offered, and large double-page advertising broadside on yellow-gold tinged thick paper stock at rear for gig in Astoria, OR under the auspices of the Co. L, 186th Infantry, Oregon National Guard. Contemporary pebbled black boards, punch-sewn at gutter margin, chipping, edgewear, still VG- exemplar; 2nd - 4to. [92 pp (unpaginated)], w/ majority of leaves on ruled paper, including 18 leaves of mylar sleeves, featuring the majority of the 23 silver gelatin photographs, most sized 8 x 10 in., photographer's imprints on versos, remainder w/ clippings, promotional announcements, tickets, broadsides, ALS & TLS documents throughout, along with a long radio program script. Contemporary 2-ring blue cloth binder, rounded corners (some edgewear, rubbing), still VG; 3rd-7th - 16mo. Five daily diaries [Approx. 700 pp (unpaginated).], w/ approx. 4000 words manuscript annotations in ink & pencil throughout, featuring some laid-in miniature photos, receipts, business cards, including 1 photographic souvenir business card for Cole McElroy's Dance Band and Cole McElroy's Spanish Ballroom, 1 tiny postage stamp photo of Lewis at his bungalow in Seaside, all bound in cloth, some wear, still VG grouping; 8th - 12mo. [Approx. 150 pp (unpaginated).], of ruled paper, mostly typescript, ink & pencil manuscript, some ruling throughout, annotations & checkmarks, last 4th or so blank. Flexible black cloth 6-ring binder, business card for Lewis as Commercial Agent for ACME Fast Freight taped in on front pastedown, 3 blank routing order forms in red & black (some scuffing, edgewear), still VG, all from the library of Genevieve Martha Lewis Levin (1911-1994). This unusually well-preserved archive of a Roaring 20's Jazz Orchestra musician and Band Leader in the Pacific Northwest reveals the exuberance and business success of this largely forgotten artist through his successful years before foundering during the Great Depression. Both scrapbooks open with clippings, thank you and recommendation letters, as well as dance broadsides and photographs during 1926 at the height of Lyle Lewis's orchestra appreciation. Testimonials include B.J. Saad who owned the Garden Dancing Palace, and stated "I have taken the Garden, which is second to no other ballroom west of Chicago. That is why I have secured Lyle Lewis, recognized as one of the best orchestra leaders on the Coast." C.W. Craig of Lipman Wolfe & Co., department store extolls that Jazz music dance held at the Multnomah Hotel March 16, 1926 that "I don't think we have ever enjoyed better or more up to date dance music than that furnished by your splendid aggregation." Broadsides and notices advertise the Lewis Jazz Orchestra playing the Grand Ball Room at the Masonic Temple, Congress Hotel, leading McElroy's Oregonians at the McElroy's Spanish Ballroom, the Dessert Hotel Oasis near Spokane, parties for Studebaker and more. One of the mounted letters includes a rather sad severance letter signed by Cole McElroy explaining the circumstances of Lyle Lewis's leaving stating "I realise that you were a victim of circumstances. On account of the fact that you had a fine band organized. . . certain music masters of the theatre jobs saw fit to take your men away from you, thereby breaking up your fine band and forcing me to make a deal for another organization." McElroy (1888-1947) was known as "Pop" McElroy, was a popular band leader, who during the years before World War I, and after played the Palm Gardens often, and had great success in his McElroy Spanish Ballroom which opened in 1926, and then opened another Seattle McElroy Ballroom in 1928. Several TLS on letterheads include those for KXL Radio station, KGW Radio Station, and the KOIN Studio Director for The Portland News which played three nights a week on air for over six months. The many photographs capture the Lyle Lewis band joking around with their instruments on the road, fully arrayed on stage, in the Radio Station, posing at various venues, stages, and even one as late as 1939 conducting the Lyle E. Lewis Dance Orchestra. The band included Cluet Mansfield, formerly with Henry Halsted band, William Webber on drums, Eddie Scroggins & Frank Champion as sax players, G. Berardinelli on Bass, and also played dances at the Irvington Club, Multnomah Athletic Club, and for a while with the historic Congress Hotel in Portland, which had been the City's first reinforced concrete building, erected during the Progressive Era, and by 1924 expanded to 119 rooms with vibrant Jazz ballroom. The daily diaries for 1929 and 1930 show that Lewis regularly played at the Cotillion Hall (now the Crystal Ballroom) initially at $ 7.00 per night in 1929, and then steadily dropping to less than half by 1933. He writes about traveling for a gig in San Francisco with Mansfield in 1929, leaving Tuesday and arriving Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1929, driving 40 mph, and getting 19 miles to the gallon, with a drive made in 19 hours and 15 minutes. He played extensively at the Bungalow Club in Seaside, OR which had opened originally June 19, 1920, and for more than 25 years was the destination for the biggest names in the Big Band Jazz era, including Lyle E. Lewis, Cole McElroy, Duke Ellington, Bob Crosby, Glenn Miller, and tragically became connected with the death of Jimmie Lunceford who died from a heart attack just before playing his last set at the Bungalow, after playing McElroy's Ballroom in Portland 2 nights before. Lewis (1890-1948) was a popular Portland,

1 S. Qu.-32mo. Beiliegend eine Portraitpostkarte. Die Unterschrift in Bleistift.

124:94 mm. S/W-Portrait en face. Die Unterschrift in Bleistift.

250 : 200 mm. Hübsches Brustbild des Bankleaders.

170 : 227 mm. Nice pose of Luter looking directly into the camera. - He began in a trio in a Latin Quartier cellar, Le Lorientais, in 1945 and became leader of the New Orleans Revival in France. He played at the 1948 Nice Jazz Festival and from 1949 played at the Paris Vieux Colombier with Sidney Bechet.

The interview retitled 'Duke looks back and forward | in an interview with Les Tompkins' features on pp.6-7 of the April 1964 number of 'Crescendo'. (Sammy Davis Jr features on the cover, with the announcement 'NOT A WORD ABOUT THE BEATLES!') Three items, the typescript of the interview and two accompanying pieces (one not used). All three in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: Carbon typescript, titled 'That's where the tailoring comes in | Duke Ellington talks to Les Tomkins'. 6pp, 4to. On six leaves, stapled together at a corner. Of particular interest in this typescript is the following passage suppressed in the published version in which Ellington names Jimmy Forrest as one of his imitators: 'we've had people like Jimmy Forrest who took a couple of pages out of our book, wrote a number and called it something else. It became the biggest thing since "St. Louis Blues". And that's "Night Train" - you know, from "Happy Go Lucky Local"'. In a couple of instances the typescript appears closer to Ellington's voice than the published version. It features the Americanism 'specialty', rather than the published 'speciality'; and has the following passage which was recast for publication: '[] and as the refreshments would take over and he would roll of the piano stool why, they would call in the soda jerker [i.e. Ellington] to come and play the piano.' The published version reads: 'As the refreshments took over and he rolled off the piano stool, they'd call in the soda jerker to play the piano.' Other changes are relatively minor: 'Some people don't like to have to what is it? [] to follow something they are not familiar with' printed as 'Some people don't like to have to apply themselves. [] to follow something unfamiliar'; 'Then you don't have to worry about how many drinks you take' printed as 'Then they don't have to worry about how many drinks they take'; 'the English audience has' printed as 'the British audiences have'; 'is a thing which is rare' printed as 'is rare'. In the typescript the preamble to the article ends rather lamely, 'However, here are some of his interesting utterances about:', this is replaced in the printed version with 'But the printed words alone have their own value. L.T.' In addition the published version exhibits a few minor editorial changes, such as the correction of 'fit' to 'fitted' and 'less notes' to 'fewer notes'. The typescript has the following headings: 'His jazz beginnings', 'When he was a fixer', 'The men in the band', 'Billy Strayhorn', 'Their writing approach', 'Ellington imitators', 'His view of the present band' and 'His view of the future'. These are replaced in the published version by 'Smart', 'So loud!', 'Cutting', 'Renaissance' and 'Protection'. TWO: Carbon typescript headed: 'The Duke presents a bouquet to our audiences'. 1p, 4to. Published in a box at bottom left of first page of interview under the title 'An Ellington bouquet'. THREE: Carbon typescript of one-sentence quotation from Ellington, under title 'Duke Ellington's comments on Crescendo'. 1p, 4to. Reads: 'I think it's wonderful reading. And it's very exciting, thrilling interesting, mainly and enjoyable.' This endorsement does not appear to have been used by the magazine. The material comes from an archive of typescripts by Tomkins of his Crescendo contributions, including interviews with Louis Armstrong, Sonny Rollins, Bud Freeman, Stan Tracey, Erroll Garner, Stan Kenton, Quincy Jones, Joe Turner, Tubby Hayes, Stan Getz.

8 x 10 inch. A black and white studio photograph signed "Sincerely Erskine Hawkins". Fine condition.-Hawkins was a big band leader and trumpeter best remembered for "Tuxedo Junction.".

Fotoporträtpostkarte (Photo Alban, Paris) in Tinte eigenhändig signiert (photo-postcard signed in ink).