Item #5510 Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist
Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist
Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist
Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist
Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist
Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist
Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist

Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist

1950s-60s. 4to, green spiral bound album binding containing 38 photos on sticky leaves, including eleven 8 x 10" photos, documenting the music career of a Jazz saxophonist names Jean Toussaint. Includes many performance photos that appear to have been taken in nightclubs, likely in New York City (records indicate that Toussaint was born in New York, also a clipping relating to a New York City musical and an image of the Wigwam Bar in Harlem are included), plus photos from the musician's time with the 18th Army Band in Fort Devens, Massachusetts. One image is dated 1953 on the back, and images available online depict Toussaint with other U.S. Army Band members in the mid 1950. The last three images show the musician playing with a rock band. Couple of leaves missing plastic laminate, some images detached from sticky leaves, some images soiled/foxed, a few with minor chips to margins. Item #5510

Price: $650.00