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Hot Club de Barcelona Club 49 Agrupación de Discofilos del F.A.D. * Programa de Los Actos Organizados con Motivo Del Gran Premio del Disco de Jazz 1957 del 10 Al 18 de Febrero de 1958.
Barcelona, Spain: Hot Club de Barcelona and Club 49, [ca. 1957]. 8vo (8.5” x 6.25”), illustrated stapled wrappers. [16] pp. Ownership inscription in ink on back wrapper of Maurice Marouani, includes his address and telephone number. CONDITION: Good, light fading to front wrapper; light creasing and light wear to contents. A Spanish-language booklet detailing events organized on the occasion of the 1957 Jazz Record Grand Prix between February 10th and 18th, 1958, evidencing the strong Spanish interest in African American jazz in the post-war years. The 1957 Jazz Record Grand Prix was co-produced by the Hot Club de Barcelona and Club 49, two noted Catalan/Spanish institutions that hosted artists and intellectuals during the Franco dictatorship (1936–75). In the post-WWII era, Club 49 presented artists including Joan Miró, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage, while Hot Club presented, between 1935 and 1956, such figures as Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Milton Mezzrow, and Django Reinhardt. An alphabetical list of works selected for the 1957 Jazz Record Grand Prix includes four entries each for Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman, and among the events surrounding the Grand Prix are an illustrated lecture given in French on “jazz and the men who created it” by American reed player Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow (1899–1972) and a concert of Black spirituals and gospel songs written by singer and guitarist Rosetta Tharpe (1915–1973). Several dozen songs by Tharpe are listed that were to be performed. Advertisements promote record labels such as Columbia, Philips, and Mercury Español (a sister-label of Mercury Records) and their recording artists; a biography of Louis Armstrong; high-fidelity stereos; a Barcelona record shop, and more.
Item #9253
Price: $275.00
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