1958 Monterey Jazz Festival jazz poster - The First MJF - Monterey, California
1958 Monterey Jazz Festival jazz poster - The First MJF - Monterey, California
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SecondTakeJazzArt presents...
a high-quality unframed poster featuring original upgraded artwork commemorating some of the most famous live performances in jazz history:
The First Annual 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival
Made famous by live albums by Cal Tjader, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and others
the October 3-5, 1958 festival in Monterey, California
Advertised performers included:
Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars featuring Velma Middleton
with Trummy Young, Peanuts Hucko, Billy Kyle, Mort Herbert, and Danny Barcelona
The Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond
with Eugene Wright and Joe Morello
Harry James & his New Band
Billie Holiday with Mal Waldron
The Modern Jazz Quartet
John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, and Connie Kay
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Cal Tjader Sextet
with Vince Guaraldi, Al McKibbon, and Willie Bobo
plus Buddy DeFranco and Mongo Santamaria
André Previn
San Francisco Little Symphony
Shelly Manne & His Men
with Russ Freeman and Herb Geller
Gerry Mulligan Quartet featuring Art Farmer
with Bill Crow and Dave Bailey
Mort Sahl
Max Roach Quintet
with Booker Little and Ray Draper
Jimmy Giuffre 3 featuring Bob Brookmeyer and Jim Hall
Sidney Bechet
Sonny Rollins
Benny Carter
Pete Rugolo
Lizzie Miles
Burt Bales & His Dixieland All-Stars
Ernestine Anderson with Gerald Wiggins
The Mastersounds with Wes Montgomery
Leroy Vinnegar Quartet with Teddy Edwards
Rudy Salvini
Virgil Gonsalves Sextet
Brew Moore
Dickie Mills Quartet
Med Flory
Mel Lewis–Bill Holman Quintet
Betty Bennett
Jake Stock
plus more!
Renowned for Cal Tjader's hit performances featuring Vince Guaraldi; one of Billie Holiday's last recorded appearances; Sunday afternoon third-stream concerts featuring orchestral works with Dave Brubeck, Max Roach, and others; and jam sessions featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins, Gerry Mulligan, and others playing together!
IMPORTANT INFO
IMPORTANT INFO
1) First and foremost, all our posters are MODERN CREATIONS — they are NOT vintage pieces or antiques! Our posters are printed on-demand from our own ORIGINAL art files that we've created ourselves within the last few years. (Read on for more details.)
2) We offer our posters UNFRAMED ONLY! Our preview images demonstrate how our posters look framed in various real-world environments; however, we do NOT include frames when you order our posters! Offering our posters UNFRAMED ONLY helps us keep our production and shipping prices lower, and it allows our customers to choose their own frame styles and materials to match their taste, décor, and budget.
3) Our preview images are FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY. Please note that digital images are typically more vibrant than printed posters. Also, due to printing variations and editorial decisions, you can expect that the colors, details, etc. in the actual posters you receive may vary somewhat from their representations here. (Some preview images we show have been WATERMARKED for security purposes. Don't worry — these marks do NOT appear on the finished product.)
4) Do NOT use dry mount or heat press processes on our posters — doing so may DAMAGE them! Our posters are special digital prints that are prepared using vivid inks and finishes that can make them HEAT-SENSITIVE. (If you wish to frame or mount our posters, we recommend a light application of a gentle archival spray adhesive instead.)
5) In general, our posters look what we like to call "PERFECTLY IMPERFECT." The events they publicize occurred in the distant past, and therefore the original source materials from which they derive often include not-so-minor COSMETIC FLAWS — folds, creases, scratches, spots, marks, smears, ghosting, discolorations, printing glitches, etc. In addition, some of the primary vintage advertising pieces contain TYPESETTING ERRORS — mistakes, typos, misspellings, etc. We elect to leave almost all of these issues INTACT. This serves to reflect the rushed nature of publicizing live jazz (with its often hurried programming and last-minute personnel changes), and when names are misspelled, these goofs reveal how some of the now-famous participants were still relatively early in their careers and not yet widely known. We always aim to strike a balance when preparing these "antique" materials for modern printing — holding onto their nostalgic, vintage-looking charm as much as possible — "warts and all" — while fixing issues primarily when they significantly hinder legibility. (Please be sure to ZOOM IN on our preview images to examine each poster closely.)
And where do these posters come from?
Our mission at SecondTakeJazzArt is to produce high-quality visuals that commemorate celebrated live performances by jazz legends from the distant past. We particularly focus on renowned club or concert appearances that have been preserved by fan-favorite recordings — legendary shows for which little to no advertising ephemera survives (or was ever created).
SecondTakeJazzArt strives to fill in these gaps with carefully researched, highly detailed facsimiles of said missing ephemera. Our poster designs combine the verifiable performance information with vintage source materials (imagery, branding, type, etc.) and original elements (derived from or inspired by contemporaneous advertisements of the same/similar events in posters, handbills, newspapers, magazines, festival programs, album covers, etc.).
In general, the posters we've created for SecondTakeJazzArt fall into three categories:
1) the majority are our own wholly new original designs;
2) others are our own original enhanced designs (new versions of vintage poster designs that we've significantly edited, adjusted, reconfigured, etc. ourselves); and
3) a few are our own original upgraded designs (new "straight" reproductions/reprints of vintage posters that we've painstakingly retouched ourselves).
SecondTakeJazzArt produces decorative tributes that aim to delight the viewer, not forgeries or fakes that aim to deceive them. Our goals are to either faithfully recreate and/or authentically mimic something close to what might have been or reproduce in higher fidelity what's largely been lost.
We sincerely hope you do enjoy our posters, and find them to be worthy constituents of your home or office décor.
All posters designed and printed in the U.S.A.
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