Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 340

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(MUSIC.) SUN RA. Sun Ra. New Years Eve. New Years Day. Color lithographed poster by Gary Grimshaw, 14x8-3/4 inches, signed by the artist in pencil in the lower right hand corner. Ann Arbor, MI, [1973]
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Sun Ra, born Herbert Sonny Blount (1914-1993) pioneered collective improvisation, a technique sometimes heard in the music of Ornette Coleman and Sonny Cherry. Sun Ra formed his famous "Arkestra" in 1953, fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms with bop and jazz. The present poster was created by Gary Grimshaw while working as art director fore the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival, 1972-1973. With his hair shoulder length, and definitely a "hippy," the Detroit Free Press said of Grimshaw, "If he hadn't been the poster artist for the counterculture, he could have been its poster child."