Original program, Casino, Nice [France] Feb. 22- 28. 1948. Original decorative wrappers. 9.5 x 12”, 12 pp. French text. Decorative spine cord holding in place a 9.5 x 12.5” photo insert with photographs of Louis Armstrong, Milton Mezz Mezzrow, Earl Hines, Rex Stewart, Jean Leclere, Jimmy Skidmore, Claude Luter, and Francis Burger. Text in French. Limited edition, “Exemplaire No. L12”. With original used ticket for the Feb. 27 concert, the sixth day of the week-long Festival. With:
Jazz Hot (French Magazine), Numero 33, May 1949. Special issue for the 2nd Festival International de Jazz, in Paris, which featured Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Sidney Bechet. Original pictorial wrappers. 38pp.
The first major Jazz Festival in the world – predating the Newport Festival by 6 Years and the Monterey Festival by 10 - featured three American and three European jazz orchestras. The American performing artists included Louis Armstrong & His All Stars (trombonist Jack Teagarden, pianist Earl 'Fatha' Hines, clarinetist Barney Bigard, bassist Arvell Shaw, and drummer Big Sid Catlett), “Mezz” Mezzrow, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Baby Dodds, and Rex Stewart. The European bands were led by Francis Burger (Switzerland), Jean Leclere (Belgium), Claude Luter (France), and Derek Neville (England). The Festival went on annually for 67 years until 2016, when it was cancelled because of the terrorist attack in Nice on Bastille Day that year that left 86 people dead and nearly 500 injured.