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2010 Jazz Fest- “The Chief Of New Orleans” Louis Prima portrait by Tony Bennett

Description: 2010 New Orleans Jazz Festival Official Poster Title: “The Chief of New Orleans" A Portrait of Louis Prima by artist Anthony Benedetto (Tony Bennett) Water color over painted on canvas , signed , and numbered by the artist, the late TONY BENNETT. (C-MARQUE) $3,500 obo Description : Note: Tony Bennett passed away in 2023. This is the official poster of the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival which commissioned Anthony Benedetto (Tony Bennett) to paint. This particular poster is a C-MARQUE . A C-Marque is the poster artwork printed on canvas that can be stretched like a painting . The artist then individually enhances each C-Marque by over-painting unique features on the image. In this case, TONY BENNETT actually used watercolors to over paint on each individual canvas, making each one a UNIQUE WORK OF ART. NO TWO ARE THE SAME . There were only 300 of these made and this particular one is number 74 of only 300 . Tony Bennett then SIGNED and NUMBERED each C-Marque himself. This is more like an original painting than a poster, and it is not recommended to use glass over it when framing. 2010 marked the centennial year of Louis Prima's birth, a New Orleans-born legend whose contributions to the American music scene are measured by the decade. In the 1930's, with his New Orleans Gang, he took his trumpet and vocal style to New York and Los Angeles where he helped define an era, forming a 22-piece orchestra that regularly topped the Big Band Era charts of the 40's. Big Bands having faded by the 50's, Prima moved to Las Vegas were he fashioned the Witnesses with New Orleans' great tenor saxophonist Sam Butera and defined yet another music scene. That band's shuffle beat combined with its New Orleans jazz roots laid the foundation for early Rock & Roll. Even after his passing in 1975, Louis Prima still spun gold (The Louis Prima Capital Collectors Series compilation CD went gold in 2008) and topped the charts (His Live From Las Vegas hit the BillBoard Top Jazz Album chart in 2005.) If you don't know Prima, you No Capicia. The world knows Tony Bennett as a peerless interpreter of the American songbook. Yet as a child growing up in Queens, New York, he wanted to be a painter. No one could better capture Prima's five-decades in music than a man firmly rooted in the same traditions and experiences. Bennett paints under his family name of Benedetto and lives out his visual passions through this alter ego: As Tony Bennett tours the world, Anthony Benedetto paints and sketches a rarified daily scene, from intimate musical gatherings to international cityscapes. We're honored to present his eloquent portrait of his dear friend and colleague, the expressive Louis Prima. This C-MARQUE is number 74 of only 300 INDIVIDUALLY SIGNED, NUMBERED, and OVER PAINTED on canvas by the late TONY BENNETT himself and stamped. 26" x 40". This poster is technically brand "new" as it has only been removed from the tubing over the years to show or take pictures of it. I am the original owner. The photos shown have little weights on them to hold it down while I was taking the photographs because it's been rolled up in the tube. The close-ups are of the details, such as the signage, numbers, and close-up of the face of Louis Prima as you can see how the watercolors have enhanced the portrait.

Price: 3700 USD

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

End Time: 2025-02-03T18:40:29.000Z

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2010 Jazz Fest- “The Chief Of New Orleans” Louis Prima portrait by Tony Bennett2010 Jazz Fest- “The Chief Of New Orleans” Louis Prima portrait by Tony Bennett2010 Jazz Fest- “The Chief Of New Orleans” Louis Prima portrait by Tony Bennett2010 Jazz Fest- “The Chief Of New Orleans” Louis Prima portrait by Tony Bennett

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