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77ie February Jazz Issue of Esquire
Announcing the winners for Esquire's 1945 All-American Jazz Band, and Esquire's All-American New Stars — selected by a board of 22 leading jazz critics and writers. This great issue of Esquire ako gives you Barry Ulanov's "The Blues for the Times" . . . and many other jazz-minded articles and stories. At your newsstand January 15.
Esquire's 1945 Jazz Book j^jft
Published hv A S. /Wn»< x rn * ^^^^
Published by A. S. Barnes & Co.
A brand-new Esquire Jazz Book, edited by Paul Eduard Miller. Here are comments by the 22 experts on their choices for Esquire's All-American Jazz Band, lists of their favorite records, and biographies of about 100 musicians named; additional biographies of some 50 New Orleans musicians; lists of all important jazz records and events of the year; wartime hints to record collectors; a complete history of New Orleans jazz; articles by Leonard Feather, Paul Eduard Miller, George Hoefer, and James Crenshaw; and 24 full pages of hot jamming photos. On sale about January 12 at newsstands, book and department stores, record shops, PX and ships" stores. $1.
Two Concerts ^jf^jjjft By Members oj Esquire's All-American Jazz Band
Wednesday, January 17, in Los Angeles and New Orleans
• Duke Ellington and his band plus six winners in Esquire's AllAmerican Band. At the Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles. Gross proceeds to Volunteer Army Canteen Service.
• Louis Armstrong and other All-American Band winners plus New Orleans jazz old-timers, celebrating 50 years of New Orleans jazz. Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans. Sponsored by the National Jazz Foundation.
V/2-Hour
Broadcast oj the Concerts Over Blue Netivork
January 1 7. from 10:30 to 12 PM Central War Time
Hear this great broadcast over the Blue Network Jroni Los Angeles, Jrom New Orleans, plus 15 minutes of Benny Goodman and his quintet and Mildred Bailey in a studio broadcast Jrom New York. Featured will be playing by musicians simultaneously Jrom all three cities. The show will be broadast to the Armed Forces overseas, and shortwaved to South America.
*A. S. Barnes and Co. is the parent company of Smith and Durrell, publishers of the Record Book, the Jazz Record Book, and Panassie's the Real Jazz.
© ESQUIRE, INC.. 1944
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