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Frank Sinatra - Count Basie jazz poster - Sinatra at the Sands - 1966

Frank Sinatra - Count Basie jazz poster - Sinatra at the Sands - 1966

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SecondTakeJazzArt presents...
a high-quality unframed poster featuring original artwork commemorating one of the most famous live performances in jazz history:

Frank Sinatra (vocal)
with Count Basie and the Orchestra
arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones

"Sinatra at the Sands"
and "Live at the Sands (Before Frank)"

the January-February 1966 gig at the Copa Room at The Sands Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

featuring:
Al Aarons, Sonny Cohn, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
Al Grey, Henderson Chambers, Grover Mitchell – trombone
Bill Hughes – bass trombone
Marshal Royal – alto saxophone, clarinet
Bobby Plater – alto saxophone, flute
Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone, flute
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone
Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Count Basie – piano
Bill Miller – piano
Freddie Green – guitar
Norman Keenan – bass
Sonny Payne – drums
Irv Kottler – drums

The 1966 Sinatra-Basie double-billing at the Sands in Las Vegas resulted in "Sinatra at the Sands," considered by many fans and critics to be the best live jazz album ever recorded! This world-famous recording includes the definitive live performances of many Sinatra hits — "Come Fly with Me," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Fly Me to the Moon," "One for My Baby," "September of My Years," "My Kind of Town," "Luck Be a Lady," "You Make Me Feel So Young," "It Was a Very Good Year," "Angel Eyes," "Don't Worry 'Bout Me," "The Shadow of Your Smile," and more.

The engagement also highlighted the Basie band in peak form — all under the capable baton of Quincy Jones — with snappy arrangements, fantastic ensemble playing, and delightful solos and obbligato passages by Harry "Sweets" Edison, Al Grey, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Basie himself, and others. An utter triumph!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra_at_the_Sands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Sands_(Before_Frank)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra%E2%80%93Basie:_An_Historic_Musical_First
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Might_as_Well_Be_Swing

IMPORTANT INFO

 

1) Our posters are new. 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) Bring your own frames. 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) Screens aren't paper. 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) Keep your cool. 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) Perfectly imperfect. 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.)

6) A best-in-class experience. Feedback from our thousands of satisfied customers regarding the quality of our posters is overwhelmingly positive! To print our posters, we use state-of-the-art digital presses with special vivid inks and finishes, typically on matte satin 80# cover stock (220 GSM) or 45# bond (170 GSM). And we pride ourselves on providing truly exceptional customer service. (For your reference, our return rate usually hovers around 0.5% — just 5 units returned out of every 1,000 ordered — and most of those are exchanges!)

 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) some are our own wholly new original designs; (aka, "recreations" — new posters that we've designed ourselves to commemorate specific gigs or concerts);
2) others are our own original enhanced designs (aka, "refittings" — new versions of vintage poster designs that we've significantly edited, adjusted, reconfigured, customized, etc. ourselves to commemorate specific gigs or concerts); and
3) some are our own original upgraded designs (aka, "reprints" — new straight reproductions 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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