CHARLIE SPIVAK - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 101026
Price: $200.00
CHARLES SPIVAK
Small sepia-toned photo by James de Kriegsmann of trumpeter and
bandleader Charles Spivak leaning on a white column in a suit and tie and with a
trumpet, signed with "My Best Wishes"
Inscribed photograph signed "To Deueche Jr./My best wishes/Charlie
Spivak" in blue ink.Pencil notations on verso in unknown hand. B/w
sepia-toned, 5x6¾ overall, 4¼x6 image, one surface, printed on cardstock. Photo
by James de Kriegsmann. Spivak (1905 or 1907-1982) was an American
trumpeter and band leader of the big band era. He did his apprenticeship playing
in the orchestras of the Doresy brothers, Ben Pollack, Jack Teagarden and others
during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as a radio and studio musician with Glenn
Miller and other band leaders. After a false start in 1939, Spivak took over
the Bill Downer's band in 1940, and it remained successful until 1959. He
helmed a straight dance band, despite his jazz roots. Spivak's main influence
is from the number of influential musicians that he had as sidemen, including
drummer Davey Rough, bassist Jimmy Middleton, trumpeter les Elgart, trombonist
Nelson Riddle and singers Garry Stevens, June Hutton, Tommy Mercer, Jimmy
Saunders and Irene Dave. Spivak continued to lead bands in Florida from 1959
to 1963, when illness forced a temporary retirement, and then another band based
in Las Vegas, Nevada and Greenville, South Carolina from 1967 until his death.
Lightly toned, soiled, creased and bowed. Signature has bled and smeared lightly
but is legible. Otherwise in fine condition.
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