Program for Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A paperback program for Jazz at the Philharmonic. Front cover is an abstract depiction of a figure in red playing a trumpet, with [NORMAN GRANZ'] coming out of the bell of the trumpet, with an abstract depiction of a building in green in the background, with [JAZZ / AT THE / PHILHARMONIC] in black aligned to the right at the center. There is an oval orange sticker reading [DO NOT REMOVE / FROM THIS / WAITING ROOM] in black type in the bottom right corner of the front cover. Twelve (12) interior pages, off-white or various colors, with black type, with black-and-white images and depictions throughout. Interior pages have images and articles about Ella Fitzergerald, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, and Norman Granz. It also includes images, many of them autographed, of Lawrence Brown, Paul Gonsalves, Herbie Jones, Mercer Ellington, Cat Anderson, Louis Hayes, Sam Jones, Sam Woodyard, Bob Cranshaw, Jimmy Jones; and signatures of Lawrence Brown, Paul Gonsalves, Herbie Jones, Mercer Ellington, Cat Anderson, Louis Hayes, Oscar Peterson, Sam Jones, Coleman Hawkins, Sam Woodyard, Bob Cranshaw, Jimmy Jones, Benny Carter, Clark Terry, and Zoot Sims. Back cover is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1967
• Subject of: Norman Granz, 1918 - 2001
• Signed by: Lawrence Brown, American, 1907 - 1988
• Signed by: Paul Gonsalves, American, 1920 - 1974
• Signed by: Herbie Jones, American, 1926 - 2001
• Signed by: Mercer Ellington, American, 1919 - 1996
• Signed by: William Alonzo Anderson, American, 1916 - 1981
• Signed by: Louis Hayes, American, born 1937
• Signed by: Oscar Peterson, Canadian, 1925 - 2007
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper, cardboard, metal
• Dimensions: closed: 14 × 11 1/8 × 1/8 in. (35.6 × 28.3 × 0.3 cm)
• Dimensions: open: 14 × 22 1/4 × 1/8 in. (35.6 × 56.5 × 0.3 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Composers (Musicians)
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2014.3.18
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paxton and Rachel Baker
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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