Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MUSICIANS--JAZZ.) Group of 17 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, each to Tore Johansen, including ANsS, IPsS, and others. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd
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Dexter Gordon. ALS, wishing him luck. 1 page, 8vo, "Hotel Lorensberg" stationery. Gothenburg, 17 November 1963 Oscar Peterson. PS, bust portrait, showing him behind his piano. Signed in the image. 10x8 inches. Np, nd Coleman Hawkins. ANS: "All best wishes." 1/2 page, 8vo, "Grand Hotel" stationery, with integral blank. Oslo, [7 February 1963]. With the original envelope, addressed in his hand Humphrey Littleton. Group IPS, "To Tore / with / greetings," snapshot showing him and band. Inscribed in the image. 8x10 inches. Np, nd Ben Webster. Two ANsS, sending best wishes. Each 1/2 page, 8vo, "Hotel Viking" stationery or ruled paper. Oslo, 22 February 1964; Np, 3 March 1969 Kenny Clarke. ANS, sending regards. 1 page, oblong 12mo, correspondence card. Montreuil [Seine-Saint-Denis], nd Maynard Ferguson (2). IPS: "Best / wishes," showing him blowing into his trumpet. Inscribed in the image. 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches; ANS, stating that he has made 25 long playing records. 1 page, oblong 8vo. Np, 1969; nd Clark Terry (3). PS and dated, half-length portrait of him with his flugelhorn. Signed in the image. 10x8 inches; ALS, explaining that his favorite melody changes from day to day, but adding "almost anything written by Ellington & Strayhorn would please me." 2 pages, square 8vo, "Washington Hotel" stationery, written on two sheets; ANS, "With Best Wishes." 1 page, square 8vo, "Washington Hotel" stationery. Np, 1966; [New York]; London, nd Albert Nicholas. IPS, "Best Wishes," in green ink. Inscribed in blank lower margin. 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches. Np, 28 July 1964 Champion Jack Dupree. IPS, "Best of / Heart[?] to / you / from / Champ Jack / Dupree / of / New Orleans / 1964," bust portrait. Inscribed in the image. 8x7 inches. Np, 1964 Mark Murphy. ANS, "All the Best . . . Keep Swinging." 1 page, 8vo, pale blue paper. Np, nd Putte Wickman. ANS, in Swedish?, in red ink. 1 page, oblong 12mo, correspondence card. Lidingö, nd Zoot Sims. Brief ALS, explaining that there are too many good tunes to pick a favorite. 1 page, 8vo, "Midland Hotel" stationery. Manchester, nd.