Autograph album of big band-era jazz musicians

1932-1944. Oblong 12mo. 87 autographs on album leaves, nearly all accompanied by reproduced photographs of the performers, with manuscript notes by the album's compiler giving the location and date of the performance where the autograph was procured and details about the performance lineup An attractive and extensive collection of autographs of jazz bandleaders and musicians of the 1930s and '40s, meticulously compiled and assembled by the original collector to include important performance information. Notable names include Duke Ellington; Fats Waller, Count Basie; Mary Lou Williams, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Guy Lombardo, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller.Each autograph, with a few exceptions, is on a separate album leaf and is accompanied by clipped photographs of the performer and a note as to when and where the autograph was procured (i.e. "Normandie Ballroom Boston April 13, 1937"). In addition, each leaf bears an ink stamp listing the standard big band instrumentation, annotated by the compiler to show the number of each instrument in use by the respective performer. For example, for Duke Ellington's performance at the Elm St Theatre on September 17, 1934, is recorded "Leader: 1 Piano: 1 Drums: 1 Guitar:1 Bass: D[ouble] ... Sax: 3 Trumpet: 3 Trombone: 2." Most of the autographs were collected during performances in or around Boston, including Coconut Grove (Worcester), Arcadia Ballroom (Gardner), Roseland Ballroom (Boston), RKO (Boston), Ritz-Carlton (Boston), with a few collected in New York (Rainbow Room) and Chicago. The album is segregated by race, with nearly all of the Black performers appearing towards the end of the album. The album concludes with a tribute to Russ Columbo (1908-1934), whose accidental death is lamented by the compiler