Can we get a print of the Fletcher Henderson color film.
What would it cost?

We are doing a Fletcher Henderson Museum.

Thanks,

JazzB

This was probably taken between July 2 and 9, 1939, in the Temple Compound of on Treasure Island, in the middle of San Francisco Bay. The Goodman Band was booked for a two-week stay (later extended to three weeks, by popular demand), the first week of which was "Navy Week," during which time the military bands of the battleships California, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, among others, became part of the Exposition. All three of those battleships were damaged (but not destroyed) on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor.

Sorry, forgot to add that when I posted this picture. There's another photo of him close up at the same concert. Thanks for your comments.

There's a big G on the bandstands, that's kind of a giveaway, and the profile looks so familiar.

A friend of mine has home movies of the band playing at this venue on a different day, judging from the outfits that Benny and Louise are wearing. It's the only color footage I've ever seen of Fletcher Henderson playing the piano. Silent film, sad to say.

Goodman's band in the late summer of '39 included Ziggy Elman on trumpet, Red Ballard and Vernon Brown on trombone, Jerry Jerome in the sax section, Arnold Covey on guitar and Artie Bernstein on bass. Hard to pin down the rest without knowing the exact date of this shot.

Looks like Benny Goodman on clarinet.