John Coltrane Autograph (And More) On Ebay
Mar 22, 2012 10-Inch LPs, Autographs, Blue Note
Oh, it’s a nice time on eBay when we get to watch auctions from both the Jazz Record Center and bobdjukic.
How much would you like a John Coltrane autograph? I know I would. This is from the Jazz Record Center: John Coltrane, Bags and Trane, Atlantic 1368. This is listed as an original mono pressing with the red and purple labels — although, for the live of me, I still can’t get the original Atlantics straight once they are past the black labels — but the key to this record is that it is signed by Coltrane, Milt Jackson and Hank Jones. The record and cover appear to be in about VG++ condition. The price is around $750 with more than two days to go. From the same auction is a Jazz at the Philharmonic program from 1956 with a bunch of cool autographs, including Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Connie Kay, Milt Jackson, Roy Eldridge and Flip Phillips. There’s one bidder for this one, so far, and the price is $100.
Tags: Atlantic Records, Dizzy Gillespie Autograph, Hank Jones, Hank Jones Autograph, Jazz At the Philharmonic, Jazz Record Center, John Coltrane, John Coltrane Autograph, Jutta Hipp, Milt Jackson, Milt Jackson Autograph, Roy Eldridge Autograph, Stan Getz Autograph
Another From the Archives: A JATP Jazz Bash
Mar 13, 2009 Features
Here’s another item we found of interest from our Downbeat collection. It’s a review by D. Leon Wolf in the Nov. 18, 1946 issue of Downbeat. The headline: Granz Bash a Caricature on Jazz: Everything Bad in Jazz Found Here.” Here’s how the article starts off: “Of all the wretched music ever inflicted upon this earnest devotee of le jazz hot, nothing, I regret to say, has yet to equal Norman Granz’s Jazz at the Philharmonic concert the night of Oct. 24. Everything that is rotten in contemporary hazz was to be found in this musical catastrophe.”
Wolf’s view of some of the musicians: Illinois Jacquet: “The lousiest tenor in the country making over $50 a week, barring none.” Rex Stewart: “Granz, if he had the guts, should have yanked him off the stage during his second number, the most sickening and
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Tags: Coleman Hawkins, Downbeat Magazine, Illinois Jacquet, Jazz At the Philharmonic, Norman Granz, Rex Stewart
