A collection of concert handbills, programmes and other jazz ephemera, comprising:

A concert handbill for ‘The Big Rhythm and Blues Show’ at the Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, on 26 July 1953, featuring Joe Louis, Lester Young, Ruth Brown, Buddy Johnson and his orchestra and doo-woop group The Clovers, Kansas City, Missouri 1953, 229 x 152 mm. [With:] a scarce original programme for the 5^th annual Randall’s Island Jazz Festival, New York, 19-21 August 1960, featuring an astonishing array of artists including the Basie band, Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, Horace Silver Quintet, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, the Ellington Orchestra, Thelonious Monk Quartet, the MJQ, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, Dinah Washington and the Dave Brubeck Quartet amongst others, 272 x 213 mm. [With:] two concert flyers for performances by Erskine Hawkins and Illinois Jacquet at the Paradise Theatre, Detroit, 1947 and 1949, each 228 x 148 mm. Upcoming headlines featured include Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton and Ella Fitzgerald Provenance: The Norman R. Saks Collection (Vail, pl.635). [With:] two handbills for The Pi Xi Chi Fraternity’s first annual ‘Swing Cotillion’ dance featuring Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and his N. B. C. Orchestra at the Alcazar Ballroom, Baltimore, 30 April 1937. Provenance: The Norman R. Saks Collection (Vail, pl.421). [With:] two menu cards for Small's Paradise Cabaret, New York, 1933 and 1946, the largest 303 x 228 mm, together with a promotional postcard, 1942. Provenance: The Norman R. Saks Collection, the postcard illustrated in Vail, pl.621. [With:] a handbill for a Harlem Cabaret Night fundraiser for the Scottsboro Boys defence fund featuring Ethel, Waters, Anita Case and an All Star Floor Show, at Small’s Paradise, New York, 6 March 1936, 213 x 132 mm. [With:] two promotional mailing cards for Johnny Hodges and the Ellington All Stars at George Wein’s Storyville, c.1951 [With:] a collection of eight handbills for European jazz concerts by American stars including Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Horace Silver and Jimmy Smiths at Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson and Coleman Hawkins in Brussels; Erroll Garner in Sheffield; and Ella and Oscar on tour in Britain, 1955-67. [With:] an original membership card for Milt Gabler’s Swing Club at Jimmy Ryan’s Place, New York, c.1950s. Provenance: The Norman R. Saks Collection (Vail, pl.251). [With:] a supper club menu card for the College Inn, Panther Room at the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, c.1940s, signed by Woody Herman, 300 x 215 mm. Provenance: The Norman R. Saks Collection (Vail, pl.325). [With:] two concert handbills for performances by Birdland Stars at Carnegie Hall, New York, 15-16 February 1957, together with a handbill for the Birdland Stars at Civic Opera House, Chicago, 18 February 1956. Provenance: The Norman R. Saks Collection. [With:] a promotional mailer for Café Zanzibar, New York, 1944, featuring Louis Armstrong. Provenance: The Norman R. Saks Collection (Vail, pl.199). [And:] a handbill for the Great South Bay Jazz Festival, Long Island, New York, 19-21 July 1957. Provenance: Ralph J. Gleason (American music critic).