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Jazz - the MIT Concert Jazz Band – Vintage Wall Art

Jazz - the MIT Concert Jazz Band, Cambridge, 1972. — vintage poster
Jazz - the MIT Concert Jazz Band, Cambridge, 1972.. Vintage poster from the Music & Dance collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Jazz - the MIT Concert Jazz Band comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This 1972 poster advertises the MIT Concert Jazz Band in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was designed by Ralph Coburn, a graphic artist born in 1923. Its catalog record marks the date and details as unverified, so the poster is best read as a surviving piece of the band's own promotion. College big bands of the period drew on the swing-era tradition of large jazz ensembles, and a campus concert poster like this one shows how such groups publicized their work to students and the wider Boston area.

Created / publishedCambridge, 1972.
Medium1 print (poster).
SubjectsPoster by Ralph Coburn, 1923- . Promotional goal: U.S. K761. 1972. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Music--Jazz; Posters; Publ. Ind.; Univ. & Colleges.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,343 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149713

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