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Jazz Party: Walter Bowe and the Angry Young MenNew York: [Walter Bowe], 1963. Offset, postmarked on verso, addressed to a prominent New York filmmaker. 9 ½ x 14 in. Very good; yellowing commensurate with age and lines from folding for mailing.Poster promoting a recurring “Jazz Party” hosted by Walter Bowe and his band The Angry Young Men, featuring their renditions of traditional and modern dancing jazz at 9:30pm every Friday night. The poster was mailed by Bowe to a prominent NYC filmmaker, documenting the connection between the avant-garde jazz and film scenes of the early 1960s.“Free Black-eyed peas and rice for early comers.”Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

Jazz Party: Walter Bowe and the Angry Young Men

Good stuff that almost disappeared (or may as well have).

a love Supreme: Student-Community African-American Libation CeremonyOakland: Soul Student Advisory Council, 1968. Offset. 11 x 8 1/2 in. A nearly pristine copy on beige laid paper, with minor cockling, barely perceptible browning to outer margins, and a tiny smudge to the left margin.Flyer for a celebration in honor of the first graduating class of Merritt College’s African-American Studies Program, one of the first such programs in America.In 1963, in their first organizing project, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale led a group of Merritt College students to demand a Black history course. Newton and Seale subsequently formed the Soul Student Advisory Council — a direct precursor to the Black Panther Party — in 1966 to push for the development of a Black Studies curricula. While the program would not gain official accreditation from the Department of Education until 1970, the flyer dates the founding of the Merritt College program to at least one year before San Francisco State became the first American university to gain official accreditation for its program. That the curriculum for Merritt College’s program was developed by the precursor organization to The Black Panther Party demonstrates the radical political milieu from which Black Studies university programs originate.A remarkable survival, this flyer is an artifact from the birth of The Black Panther Party and the development of Black Studies as an academic discipline — as well as evidence of the mutually flowing influence between the Black avant-garde and political vanguard.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

[Black Panthers] — a love Supreme; another copy

New Year’s Eve Party with Cecil Taylor Quartet and Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon QuartetNew York: The Living Theatre, 1962. Offset. 8 ½ x 14 in. Slight loss to corners.Flyer promoting a 1962 New Year’s Eve Party benefit concert for the Renaissance House, The Living Theatre, and the Provincetown Review, featuring the Cecil Taylor Quartet and the Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet at the Renaissance House in New York.The party came at a turning point in the careers of many involved. A month before the performance, Taylor had recorded his landmark live album Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come with Sunny Murray and Jimmy Lyons, today regarded as one of the greatest live recordings in jazz history; Shepp had released his debut album only three months earlier, with the Savoy LP Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet; while The Living Theatre had just began their production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Man is Man,” which would tour the world and help establish The Living Theatre as the premiere avant-garde theater company in the world. Additionally, the Renaissance House, an avant-garde performance venue in New York, had presented Allan Kaprow’s happening The Courtyard earlier in the year, and the Provincetown Review, an influential alternative literary journal, had gained increased influence and notoriety following editor Bill Ward’s recent obscenity arrest. Finally, this flyer is a rare document of overlap between the Black and white New York avant-gardes, which historically have often been rigorously segregated.Surely the place to be at in New York on New Years Eve in 1962.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

New Year’s Eve Party with Cecil Taylor Quartet and Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet

Sun Ra and his Solar Astro-Infinity ArkestraChicago: El Saturn Research, ca. 1980s. Offset. 11 x 14 in. Near fine.Bright yellow promotional flyer from El Saturn Records collaging promo images of Sun Ra and the Arkestra with effusive press review blurbs. On verso is a list of Sun Ra titles available from El Saturn with order instructions.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

Sun Ra and his Solar Astro-Infinity Arkestra flyer

Sun RaSun Ra Saturn Records FlyerChicago: Saturn Records / El Saturn Research, ca. 1960. Offset. 12 x 11 in. Very good with creased from folding into twelfths.Double-sided Saturn Records flyer promoting Sun Ra’s words and music, featuring “comments and poetry by Sun Ra” on verso with an early promotional picture of Ra on the recto. A scarce piece of ephemera from early in Sun Ra’s career.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

Sun Ra Saturn Records Flyer

Bebop Slang&nbsp;El Cerrito, CA: Paradise Products, 1985. Offset. 27 7/8 x 20 in. Light bumping to edges.Charming poster defining hepcat lingo.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

Bebop Slang

For The Benefit of LeRoi Jones [Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Frank O’Hara, Paul Blackburn]New York: Living Theater, 1963. Offset. 8 x 10 ½ in. Near fine.Flyer for a benefit for the poet, writer, and editor LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), with readings, concerts, and lectures by Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Frank O’Hara, Paul Blackburn, and more.The Living Theatre organized the benefit for LeRoi Jones, who was then seriously ill, along with his wife Hettie Jones. His seminal work of musicology, Blues People, would be published later that year.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

For The Benefit of Leroi Jones [Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Frank O’Hara, Paul Blackburn]

For The Benefit of Leroi Jones — Another copy

The Detroit Contemporary 5 [John Sinclair]Newark / Detroit: The Artists’ Workshop / Detroit &amp; The Jazz Art Music Society, 1966. Mimeograph on tan stock from type and holograph. 7 ½ x 11 in. Mild age toning and edges embrittled.Handbill promoting “The Detroit Contemporary 5, featuring Marion Brown,” a series of concerts in Newark, presented by The Artists’ Workshop from Detroit, and the Jazz Art Music Society from Newark. Ensemble member John Sinclair would go on to found the White Panther Party two years later and play in the celebrated proto-punk band MC5.The Detroit Contemporary 5 (DC5) was a fluid ensemble from Detroit that included John Dana, Ronald Johnson, John Sinclair, and trumpetist Charles Moore. It had grown out of the Detroit Artists’ Workshop, an important meeting ground for musicians and other artists at the height of the Detroit Free Press artistic movement. The concert was part of DC5’s ten day tour of the east coast, and featured the renowned alto player Marion Brown. The politically oriented jazz scene in Newark would soon coalesce with Amiri Baraka’s Jihad Productions.A record of the intersecting networks of avant-garde jazz and radical politics.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

Jazz Party: Walter Bowe and the Angry Young Men

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