April 17, 2024
2002 New Orleans Jazz Fest Poster - signed
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I have had two of these in my collection for 10 years now, since 2002. This copy I have let friends see and unfortunately shows some signs of wear on the corners, so I decided to let this go this year. Signed poster. I paid $235. Now worth $400 on the open market.This would make a great Christmas gift for any fan of the New Orleans Jazzfest, Wynton Marsalis or artist Paul Rogers. My copy is framed and is a striking conversation piece. This auction is for the signed poster only.Official New Orleans Jazz Festival Poster site Art4Now describes this poster: In the house thatBuddy Bolden built and Louis Armstrong renovated, dwells Wynton Marsalis —inheritor of the mantle of New Orleans' gift of jazz to the world. A straightline connects these greats, running through the heart of New Orleans andpointing to the future of musical innovation. Paul Rogers, a master of Jazz Agevisual art, finds the fulcrum of this line, leveraging it in the same way thatWynton uses it to move 20th century music into the new millenium. Rogers paintsan allegory using the lexicon of classic poster art, replete with subtlereferences to the giants upon whose shoulders Marsalis stands. Long before MTVdefined how we see and hear music, there were 78's and radio and toweringimagery; nascent media that bound people together and fired their imaginations.As Marsalis does
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