This post opens a series of musical instruments ads published in different periodicals through the decades. Let's start with jazz nobility...
Music And Rhythm (October 1941)
THREE COMPACT MIRACLES: JIMMY RUSHING SINGS, DONALD LAMBERT PLAYS
(Wallace’s Tavern, West Orange, New Jersey, c. 1958-62)
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Without further ado: three location recordings of Jimmy Rushing with Donald
Lambert at the piano, recorded some time in the late Fifties or early
Sixties a...
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Those are wonderfully stirring ads, although my cynical self wonders if the musicians depicted as praising their instruments actually ever played them -- by choice -- or if they said, "Sure, I'd like new trumpets for free whenever I wear one out! Who wouldn't!" But it's lovely to see pictures of players one usually sees only as part of the band, almost buried. Thanks for the hot archaeology! Cheers, Michael Steinman
ResponderEliminarThanks for the commment, Michael. As you point out, whether the advertising musicians really played those instruments or not, I love to see these ads.
ResponderEliminarRegards,
Agustín