[Broadsheet] Chick Webb and his N.B.C. Orchestra Featuring Ella Fitzgerald [with ticket to Alcazar Ballroom event]

Baltimore, MD, 1937. Very Good. Baltimore, MD: [1937]. Illustrated broadsheet (23x15cm) promoting Chick Webb and his N.B.C. Orchestra and featuring 20-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, who had begun singing with the band in 1935. Verso prints an "Open Letter to Dance Lovers of this City" promoting Webb's band for combining "hot stomp music and sweet melodies." Printed ticket (5x9cm) featuring Fitzgerald's name also included. Fitzgerald herself would vault to fame with "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" the next year and after Webb's untimely death in 1939, would become bandleader. Light rubbing and toning to edges of broadsheet; ticket clean and unmarked; Very Good or better copy of a rare survival celebrating the Baltimore-born bandleader's return to his hometown and a snapshot capturing Ella Fitzgerald's career as she became the "Queen of Jazz.