Herb Snitzer (American, 1932). Such Sweet Thunder Portfolio (complete with 10 works), 1958-1990. Gelatin silver prints o...

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Herb Snitzer (American, 1932)
Such Sweet Thunder Portfolio (complete with 10 works), 1958-1990
Gelatin silver prints on Ilford paper, printed 1995
10 x 15 inches (25.4 x 38.1 cm) and the reverse (images)
14 1/2 x 19 inches (sheets)
Each signed and dated in ink, lower margin recto and editioned 32/75 in pencil, verso. Printed colophon and introduction by Lewis Porter all in blue cloth clamshell case with printed label affixed to cover. Palm Press, Inc., Concord, Massachusetts.

Titles include: Lester Young, Outside the Five Spot Jazz Club, The Bowery, New York City, 1958; Nina Simone, Photographic session for first album cover for Colpix Records, "The Amazing Nina Simone," Philadelphia, 1959; Dizzy Gillespie, Performance at Hunter College, New York City, 1959; Count Basie, New York City recording studio, 1960; Jimmy Rushing, Randall's Island Jazz Festival, New York City, 1960; Eddie Jones, Count Basie Orchestra recording session, 1960; John Coltrane, Backstage, The Village Gate, New York City, 1961; Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse, The United Nations, New York City, 1961; Louis Armstrong, On his bus somewhere in Connecticut en route to Tanglewood, 1960; and Miles Davis Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, 1990.


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