Rare Jazz in the Troc album 12 autographs on cover

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Here it is jazz fans, a true piece of Jazz history...  Discovered in a large collection of jazz albums  was this beauty; a Jazz in the Troc 9 Greats of Jazz album.  This would be great in itself but this album cover is autographed by 8 of the 9 jazz musicians featured on this album plus 4 other jazz greats.  All signatures are in ink and are still in excellent condition.  The album has been protected in a plastic sleeve for many years. 

This album contains recordings made on July 21, 1966 at the old Trocadero Ballroom in Denver and contains 9 songs:  Fidgety Feet, Rose of Washington Square, Honky Tonk Train Blues, Stealin' Apples, At the Jazz Band Ball, Three Little Words, Big Noise from Winnetka, Get Out and Get Under the Moon and I've Found a New Baby.  All performed by Ralph Sutton, Clancy Hayes, Bud Freeman, Bob Haggart, Peanuts Hucko, Yank Lawson, Morey Feld, Cutty Cutshall and Lou McGarity.

Now the good stuff......

Autographed by:

1. Peanuts Hucko
2. Clancy Hayes
3. Bud Freeman
4. Bob Haggart
5. Ralph Sutton
6. Yank Lawson
7. Morey Feld
8. Lou McGarity
9. Gus Johnson Jr.
10. Carl Fontana
11. Bob Wilber
12. Billy Butterfield

I am not a big Jazz history buff but the research I have done tells me that these are some of the greats in Jazz history.  A brief history on 6 of the 12 greats....

Ralph Sutton is the greatest stride pianist to emerge since World War II with his only close competitors being the late Dick Wellstood and the very versatile Dick Hyman. Nearly alone in his generation, Sutton has kept alive the piano styles of Fats Waller and James P. Johnson, not as mere museum pieces but as devices for exciting improvisations. Although sticking within the boundaries of his predecessors, Sutton has infused the music with his own personality; few can match his powerful left hand. Ralph Sutton played with Jack Teagarden's big band briefly in 1942 before serving in the Army. After World War II he appeared regularly on Rudi Blesh's This Is Jazz radio show and spent eight years as the intermission pianist at Eddie Condon's club, recording frequently. He spent time playing in San Francisco, worked for Bob Scobey, moved to Aspen in the mid-'60s and became an original member of the world's Greatest Jazz Band with Yank Lawson, Bob Haggart and Bud Freeman. In the 1970s he recorded many exciting but now out-of-print albums for the Chaz label and since then has cut albums for quite a few labels. Sutton has kept a busy schedule through the mid-'90s, playing at jazz parties and festivals. Although he would have received much greater fame if he had been born 20 years earlier and come to maturity during the 1930s rather than the 1950s, Ralph Sutton has earned his place among the top classic jazz pianists of all time. -- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Gus Johnson (November 15, 1913 – February 6, 2000) was the drummer in various jazz bands for many years. In the 1960s he played for saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and accompanied singer Ella Fitzgerald in her 1960 concert in Berlin. He is memorialized in the Medeski Martin & Wood song "Whatever Happened to Gus."

During the post-war period, Peanuts Hucko played in the bands of Benny Goodman, Ray McKinley, Eddie Condon, and Jack Teagarden. From 1950 to 1955, he was busy in New York as a studio musician for CBS and ABC. This was followed by more work with Goodman and Teagarden, after which he joined the Louis Armstrong All-Stars from 1958 to 1960. When he visited Tokyo, Japan as the lead alto saxophone player of Benny Goodman's Orchestra in January, 1951, he listened to Japanese famous jazz clarinet player Shoji Suzuki and his Rhythm Aces playing. Teaming with Suzuki and his band, they recorded some tunes after a few days, one of them was "Suzukake No Michi", which broke the record of jazz record sales in Japan. He also led his own group at Eddie Condon's Club from 1964 to 1966.

From 1966, he was featured regularly at Dick Gibson's Colorado jazz parties where he appeared with the Ten Greats of Jazz, later the World's Greatest Jazzband. In the 1970's he led the Glenn Miller Orchestra and toured with them across the US and abroad.

John Rhea Lawson(born May 3, 1911 in Trenton, Missouri; died 1995 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was a jazz trumpeter known for Dixieland and also some swing music. He was known as "Yank Lawson" for most of his life.

From 1933 to 1935 he worked in Ben Pollack's orchestra and after that became a founding member of the Bob Crosby Orchestra. He later worked with Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, but also worked with Crosby again in 1941. Later in the 1940s he became a studio musician leading his own Dixieland sessions. In the 1950s he and Bob Haggart created the Lawson-Haggart band and they worked together in 1968 to form the World's Greatest Jazz Band, a Dixieland group which performed for the next ten years. He remained an important figure in Dixieland music until his death.

He was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998.

Billy Butterfield (January 14, 1917 in Middleton, Ohio – March 18, 1988) was a band leader, jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist.

He studied cornet with Frank Simons, but later switched to studying medicine. He did not give up on music and quit medicine after finding success as a trumpeter. Early in his career he played in the band of Austin Wylie. He gained attention working with Bob Crosby (1937-1940), and later worked with Artie Shaw, Les Brown, and Benny Goodman. On October 7, 1940, during his brief stay with Artie Shaw's orchestra, he performed what has been described as a "legendary trumpet solo" on the hit song "Stardust." Between 1943 and 1947, taking a break to serve in Uncle Sam's army, Billy led his own orchestra. On September 20, 1944, Capitol recorded the jazz standard "Moonlight In Vermont", which featured a vocal by Margaret Whiting and a trumpet solo by Billy. The liner notes from the CD Capitol From The Vaults, Volume 2, "Vine Street Divas" indicate that, although 'Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra' were credited with the song, it was really the Les Brown band recording under the name of Billy Butterfield because Brown was under contract to another label at the time. Billy was a member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band led by Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart from the late 1960's until his death in 1988. He also freelanced as a guest star with many bands all over the world, and performed at many Jazz festivals, including the Manassas Jazz Festival and Dick Gibson's Bash in Colorado.

Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois - March 15, 1991 in Chicago) was a U.S. jazz musician, bandleader, amd composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of the Big Band era. His major recordings were "The Eel", "Millie's Downtown Now", "Crazeology", "The Buzzard", and "After Awhile", composed with Benny Goodman.

Clarence Leonard Hayes was a jazz vocalist, banjoist and guitarist born November 14, 1908 in Caney, Kansas. He lived in Parsons, Kansas for a short time, and the town is the subject of his song "The Parsons, Kansas Blues": / Listen to it here. He worked always as a professional musician, turning up in San Francisco in 1926. By 1927 he was a regular on the music scene there. He performed regularly on radio in San Francisco until the 1950s when live music came to be replaced with recordings.

For two years beginning in 1938 he was a singer, banjoist and sometimes percussionist with Lu Watters's Yerba Buena Jazz band, the group that helped spark the Dixieland revival that continues to this day. He went on to play with Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band for many years; both he and Scobey were alumni of Watters's earlier band, as was trombonist Turk Murphy at whose San Francisco nightclub Hayes often played. He recorded fairly widely and with many different groups.

Hayes's light baritone singing is relaxed, unmannered and marked by a perfect sense of rhythm which allowed him to attack phrases at just the perfect instant, and his renditions of classics from the twenties and of moralistic saloon songs such as "Ace in the Hole", "Wise Guy" and "Silver Dollar" are splendid. Hayes wrote only one hit tune, "Huggin' and Chalkin'", made famous by Hoagy Carmichael, though Hayes himself recorded it with Scobey's band.

Hayes's banjo playing was essentially rhythmic rather than melodic and is generally unobtrusive and very tasteful, two qualities often lacking in jazz banjoists. He was unusual in playing a six-string banjo rather than the more common plectrum or tenor which have four strings.

He died in San Francisco in March 1972.

This great piece of Jazz and Big Band history is being offered at a starting price of $99 with no reserve.  This is less than the price of one of these greats autographs. Do not let this one get away.

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