Unique Jazz Auction

[Captain Bacardi]

I read an interesting story on the Jazz Times site that may be of interest to jazz fans:

Coltrane's Saxophone and Other Items for Auction

The chance to buy John Coltrane’s (pictured) saxophone or Benny Goodman’s clarinet doesn’t come along every day, but on Feb. 20, these items and many more will be put on auction by New York’s Guernsey’s Auction House at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, home to Jazz at the Lincoln Center.

In addition to Coltrane’s tenor saxophone and Goodman’s clarinet, the auction will also feature the saxophones of Charlie Parker and Gerry Mulligan, Dizzy Gillespie’s and Clark Terry’s trumpets and J.J. Johnson’s trombones. The original music to Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, a 27-page handwritten letter from Louis Armstrong and a gown that Peggy Lee wore are other items among the hundreds that will be auctioned off.

Public preview days will be on Feb. 18 and 19 at Rose Hall and a catalog featuring the objects for sale, along with historic jazz photos, is available through Guernsey for $36. Absentee bidding will be available by phone and through eBay Live Auctions. Some of the proceeds from the auctioned items will be given to jazz-related organizations. More information can be found at www.guernseys.com.



Capt. Bacardi

 

[jimac51]

Though not a big fan of Marsalis,his vision of putting jazz in a sterile environment(like much of his music) and the commercialization for no reason other than $(would that the ghost of Dizzy Gillespie could take the stage at the Dizzy's Club Coca Cola-what a hoot that would be),the catalog is probably worth the money. The probable artwork and info is geared to the millionaires who might actually own one of these relics and the auction house spares no expense with tidbits as well as the probable awkward writing geared to some who have no idea what it is they will be bidding on. Barry Halper' baseball memorabilia auction at Sotheby's brought a massive two volume set. Later editions,slipcased with the results of the auction,were overpressed and show up fairly regularly at used book stores for well under ten bucks. A friend of mine used to work for Halper and gave me the heads up-worth getting two versionsne to keep wrapped up and the other to drool over. Mac