Collection of five signed photos, most inscribed to Gaston Criel, affixed to eight 13.5 x 10.5 black album pages, each from an esteemed jazz icon. Signers are: Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet (2), Rex Stewart, and Don Byas. Pages also feature additional clippings and unsigned photos. In very good condition, with light surface creasing, rippling, and rubbing, with heavy contrast to one of Jacquet’s signatures, and slightly irregular ink adhesion and contracts to Stewart’s signature. This collection was compiled by Gaston Criel, the noted French poet, writer and jazz enthusiast in Paris's famed St. Germain des Pres jazz scene. RRAuction COA.
