Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Tilghman poster for upcoming performances by Count Basie and Billie Holiday at San Francisco's Jazz Showcase. Poster, 24¼ x 17 inches, in red and blue on card stock; light toning, minor wear on top edge, unrelated manuscript notes on verso. Oakland, CA: Tilghman Press, circa August 1957
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The Jazz Showcase was a short-lived but important San Francisco venue run by Dave Glickman. They were best known as an alcohol-free club ("Leave your I.D. cards at home"), as part of an effort to draw in the younger record-buying music fans. They were in operation only from July 1957 to January 1958, but drew many big-name acts who were probably relieved to play for a less intoxicated audience than usual. The acts listed here, including big names Woody Herman, Count Basie, and Billie Holiday, were all booked at the club from 6 September 1957 through early October.

The poster is also of note for its printer Charles Francis Tilghman (1895-1987), who ran one of the Bay Area's most prominent and enduring Black-owned businesses during this era.