Duke Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige - Carnegie Hall - 1943
Duke Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige - Carnegie Hall - 1943
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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:
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
"Black, Brown and Beige"
the monumental January 23, 1943 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
featuring:
Duke Ellington – piano
Billy Strayhorn – piano
Rex Stewart – cornet
Shorty Baker, Wallace Jones - trumpet
Ray Nance – trumpet, violin
Lawrence Brown, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton – trombone
Juan Tizol – valve trombone
Otto Hardwick – alto sax, clarinet
Johnny Hodges – alto sax
Chauncey Haughton – clarinet, tenor sax
Ben Webster – tenor sax
Harry Carney – baritone sax, clarinet, alto sax
Fred Guy – guitar
Junior Raglin – bass
Sonny Greer – drums
This amazing concert album features nearly two hours of must-hear performances by the Ellington Orchestra, playing a varied program of its "greatest hits" (as of 1943). But beyond the exoticism of "Black and Tan Fantasy," the sensuality of "Daydream," and the swing of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," this concert featured the debut of a brand new Ellington composition: "Black, Brown and Beige." This ambitious three-movement composition — that Ellington called "a parallel to the history of the Negro in America" — was the true highlight of the concert, and that premiere presentation at Carnegie Hall represents its only full-length performance.
A complex, long-form jazz suite written by a Black composer, reflecting on the Black experience, and performed by Black musicians in 1943 at America's most revered classical performance venue, "Black, Brown and Beige" stands as a landmark moment in American musical culture, and a piece whose value among the critics and the public has continually grown with the passage of time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carnegie_Hall_Concerts:_January_1943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black,_Brown_and_Beige
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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.
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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:
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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.
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