first edition
1951 · NY
by Handy, W.C.
Sheet music: Inscribed to "Mr. J. Birks Gillespie, William C. Handy, 4-30-1951".
"Dizzy" John Birks Gillespie was his name. The first festival of the W.C. Handy Music Festival, Florence, AL, it featured Dizzy Gillespie as the headliner artist.
Quotation on cover by Theodore Roosevelt on the nice design of stars & stripes.
Handy was virtually blind by this time.
Front cover is loose from spine.
Nice association! (Inventory #: 3210)
"Dizzy" John Birks Gillespie was his name. The first festival of the W.C. Handy Music Festival, Florence, AL, it featured Dizzy Gillespie as the headliner artist.
Quotation on cover by Theodore Roosevelt on the nice design of stars & stripes.
Handy was virtually blind by this time.
Front cover is loose from spine.
Nice association! (Inventory #: 3210)
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