Music Posters from Royal Books, Inc.

San Francisco: Klub Komotion, 1989. Vintage flyer for a performance by Janor Hypercleets and The Band That Dare Not Speak It's Name at Klub Komotion in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 17, 1989. Performance artist Hypercleets (also known as Hypercleats) and The Band That Dare Not Speak It's Name were proponents of The Church of the Subgenius, a… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Farley's, 1990. Vintage flyer for a concert at Farley's Cafe of San Francisco, featuring Big Bones and the Bone-a-fide Blues Band, circa early 1990s. Located in Potrero Hill, Farley's Cafe (now Farley's Coffeehouse) has been a popular cafe since 1989, frequently hosting live music. 8.5 x 11 inches, with center star hand colored with marker.… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: WGBH, 1984. Vintage one-color poster for a Premiere WGBH Jazz Concert of The Mingus Dynasty at the Berklee Performance Center, Saturday, September 15, circa 1984, with the supporting act of the Jay Brandford Septet.. The Mingus Dynasty jazz ensemble formed in 1979 following the death of legendary jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus, taking their name… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Vintage flyer for a performance by Danielle Hell and Iao Core on Saturday, September 2, 1989, at the Hat Heads Gallery of the San Francisco College of Art. Danielle Willis, a self-described San Francisco-based poet, writer, and vampire, who often went under the pseudonym Danielle Hell in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is best… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Club Oasis, 1990. Vintage flyer, produced by Club Oasis, circa early 1990s, advertising its weekly funk night, featuring "Annie 'Fingertips' Buerhaus." The popular San Francisco LGBTQ nightclub Club Oasis first opened in 1982. Following its decline in the early 2000s, the club was bought by actor, writer, musician, director, producer, and choreographer D'Archy Drollinger, who… Read more about this item

New York: The Day School, 1980. Vintage mailer for "Zoot," a performance by Zoot Sims and his ensemble, for the third performance of the Church of the Heavenly Rest's fourth "Heavenly Jazz Concert" season, Sunday, February 3, 1980. Sims ensemble includes Lee Konitz, Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell, Joe Cohn, and Mike De Pasqua. The Heavenly Jazz Concert series were… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Maryland State Arts Council / National Endowment for the Arts, 1987. Vintage one-color Julius Hemphill and Baltimore Jazz Workshop Big Band poster for a performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 21, 1987. One of free jazz's most visionary composers, Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophonist best known as the founder of the… Read more about this item

New York: Avery Fischer Hall, 1981. Vintage fold-out mailer for two performances by Dizzy Gillespie's Dream Band, at the Avery Fisher Hall, on February 16, 1981. Stamped on the bottom of the verso from Universal Jazz Coalition, Inc., to noted jazz photographer Jeffrey Kliman (J.G. Kliman), and postmarked February 12, 1981. The legendary concerts at Avery Fisher Hall… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Folcrom, 1988. Vintage flyer announcing four performances of an opera entitled "Watt," adapted from the Samuel Beckett novel, performed by The Tiny Dead Bodies Opera Company at The Folcrom, San Francisco, October 21 and 22, 28 and 29, 1988. Based on the 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. The Folcrom was a non-profit installation and performance… Read more about this item

Dallas: Dallas Jazz Society, 1981. Vintage 8th Annual Charlie Parker Festival poster at the Recovery Room Revisited, featuring James Moody, presented by the Dallas Jazz Society, August 28-30, 1981. The Recovery Room of Dallas, Texas, hosted annual Charlie Parker Festivals for seven years, until the famed jazz club closed in 1980. Thanks to the Dallas Jazz Society, the… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Maryland Center for Creative Music, 1987. Vintage four-color Webster Young poster for a "Visiting Jazz Artists '87" performance at Maryland Art Place (MAP), January 8, 1987, for the Baltimore Jazz Workshop and hosted by the Maryland Center for Creative Music. Jazz trumpeter and cornetist, Webster Young, is best remembered for his smooth, lyrical playing, and performed with… Read more about this item

New York: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 1972. Vintage Newport Jazz Festival - New York poster, July 1-9, 1972, the first year the festival was held in New York City, designed by Katharine Porter. With unrelated information printed on the verso regarding Frank Stella's lithograph designed for Festival 1967 at Lincoln Center. In 1972, festival producer George… Read more about this item

New York: Village Gate, 1960. Vintage flyer announcing a series of performances by Nina Simone, Geoffrey Holder, Bill Harris, the Ramsey Lewis Trio, and Elly Stone at the Village Gate, and a concert by Nina Simone at Hunter College, 1960. The Village Gate performances announced on the flyer include Nina Simone, Geoffrey Holder, and Bill Harris, September 8… Read more about this item

Manchester: The Factory, 1978. Vintage flyer for the June 9, 1978, show at The Factory, featuring Joy Division in their fourth concert under that name. Extremely scarce. Joy Division's fourth confirmed concert after changing their name from "Warsaw," and their first concert after the release of their premiere self-released EP, "An Ideal for Living," six days prior.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1993. Vintage "Ice-T Home Invasion" promotional record store poster, 1993, featuring the artist's first four albums, "Rhyme Pays" (1987), "Power" (1988), "The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech ... Just Watch What You Say" (1989), and "O.G. Original Gangster" (1991), below the "Home Invasion" album art on the lower right. Ice-T's fifth studio album and the first released through… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1988. Vintage Siouxsie and the Banshees UK tour poster in support of the 1988 album "Peepshow," 1988, featuring the first six UK dates for the "Peepshow" tour (omitting a September 9 performance at Cornwall Coliseum). The widely acclaimed ninth studio album by the iconic London post-punk band, produced by long time Banshee studio alumni Mike Hedges,… Read more about this item

N.p.: CBS, 1977. Vintage Leonard Cohen, "The Poet of Rock Music," German concert poster for a performance at Rheingoldhalle Mainz, Tuesday, December 6, 1977-ultimately canceled-with the image of Cohen's 1975 "Greatest Hits" release in the lower left. Posters and tickets were printed for German performances by Cohen in 1977, a year in which Cohen did not tour, for… Read more about this item

Brussels: Sound and Vision, 1986. Vintage Siouxsie and the Banshees Belgian concert poster, for a performance at Forest National, Vorst, on April 22, 1986, in support of (and one day after the release of) their 1986 album "Tinderbox," with a small "Belgique / Brussels" stamp at the bottom left. Siouxsie and the Banshees' seventh studio album, released April… Read more about this item

Deinze, Belgium: Konsertforum, 1984. Vintage Eurythmics Belgian tour poster for a performance at Brielpoort, Deinze, on February 25, 1984, in support of their 1983 album "Touch." In January 1983, the New Wave synth pop duo of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Eurythmics, released their second album "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," with the wildly successful title track,… Read more about this item

Stuttgart, West Germany: Liederhalle Mozartsaal, 1976. Vintage one color "... I'm the Blues / Memphis Slim / in concert" West German tour poster for a performance at Liederhalle Mozartsaal, Stuttgart, November 1, circa 1976. Scarce. Born John Len Chatman, blues legend Memphis Slim was a pianist, singer, and composer who cut over 500 recordings and released more than… Read more about this item