Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Signed photo of the big band leader and arranger Fletcher Henderson. Photograph, 8 x 10 inches; minor wear including ¾-inch crease in lower corner, later inked caption on verso; signed and inscribed "To Brashear, with every good wish, sincerely, Fletcher." Atlantic City, NJ, 1931
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The bandleader, arranger, and pianist Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952) is shown with 11 bandmates in matching suits posed on an Atlantic City boardwalk, an image later used on the cover of the album "La Storia del Jazz: Fletcher Henderson and His Connie's Inn Orchestra." The caption inscribed on verso was copied from Bill Grauer's 1966 "Pictorial History of Jazz," page 107. It names the band members, most notably Henderson seated third from the right; and trumpet player Erskine Hawkins standing second from left.