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June Christy - Dave Pell Octet - jazz poster - At the Crescendo - Hollywood - 1957

June Christy - Dave Pell Octet - jazz poster - At the Crescendo - Hollywood - 1957

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SecondTakeJazzArt presents...
a high-quality unframed poster featuring original artwork commemorating live performances by some fan-favorite "cool jazz" artists:

June Christy (vocal)

the May 1957 nightclub gig at the Crescendo on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood

also appearing:
Lenny Bruce
The Dave Pell Octet

musicians likely included:
Bob Cooper – tenor saxophone
Dave Pell – tenor saxophone
Don Fagerquist or Jack Sheldon – trumpet
Ronnie Lang or Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
Ray Sims or Bobby Burgess – trombone
Paul Smith or Marty Paich – piano
Tony Rizzi – guitar
Rolly Bundock – bass
Jack Sperling – drums

June Christy – famous for her smoky vocal contributions to 1940s hits by Stan Kenton's big band, such as "Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" and "Tampico" – went solo in 1954 and began a string of beloved albums with Pete Rugolo for Capitol including "Something Cool," "The Misty Miss Christy," "Fair and Warmer," "Gone for the Day," and more. Most albums also featured her talented husband, Bob Cooper, on tenor saxophone. Like Anita O'Day and Chris Connor (all three "whisky-voiced" Kenton band alumnae), June was a favorite of jazz singers and instrumentalists alike. Generations of vocal students have been influenced by her unique tone, phrasing, breath control, and time.

Akin to other medium-sized ensembles led by players like Shorty Rogers, Howard Rumsey, Shelly Manne, Gerry Mulligan, Marty Paich, etc., the Dave Pell Octet was perhaps the best and most successful of the mid-century "little big bands." In fact, it was a bona fide phenomenon in the mid-50s. During this period, they released album after album of standards from the Great American Songbook, featuring snappy arrangements with bright danceable tempos, tight ensemble passages, tasty solos, and inventive harmonies. This extremely popular formula produced what Pell himself self-effacingly called "mortgage-paying jazz," but today, these fun albums are well-regarded as quintessential exemplars of the West Coast "cool jazz" sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Christy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Cool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pell

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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