Hey! Presto...

I saw the following programme for sale on eBay recently... 

From the vendor's description...

Talk about a multicultural event! In 1956, on the North Shore of Massachusetts, a very special musical concert happened. Two local Jewish organizations brought the famed Duke Ellington and his orchestra to Gloucester, MA!  Yes, Sisterhood of Temple Ahavath Achim and the Gloucester Chapter of Hadassah cooperated to make this event a reality! 

The concert was held on Saturday, July 14, 1956, in the Gloucester High School auditorium. The program has four pages (folded) and measures closed 6.15 x 9.5 inches. Please Note: The program was once folded in half and still has its fold line, as well as a faint water stain on the top left corner, in light brown. This program comes from the estate of the late Valerie Paul, a Brookline, MA, teenager who attended this concert with her boyfriend Greg Burke. She noted the date in blue ink in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.

Inside is the full musical program -- all 16 numbers, with the composer names. Plus the names of the people who organized the concert. The back page has an image of the United Nations Forest, a charitable event spearheaded by Hadassah. This is a rare item you are not likely to find ever again.

The auction can be followed here...

Whilst the music for this engagement seems not to have been recorded, their next performance the very next day at the Tanglewood Music Festival - one week after their famous appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival has survived. This recording has been released on a pair of rare LPs on the Queen label. Here is the cover to Volume One:

These LPs have since been transferred and are available as a download (mp3 or FLAC) at the Presto Classical website here.