Marc Campbell posted this rather intriguing item on his Facebook recently:
I suggest right clicking to open it at full size (though even then it’s not always easy to read). Two interesting things about this: 1) the art is by Gene Bilbrew, and 2) it’s from 1966. I mention this cos I didn’t know bootlegging was evidently enough of a thing then to be the subject of this ad for Charles Mingus’ self-distributed records (an enterprise his Wiki entry is weirdly silent about)… I have read Clinton Heylin’s Bootleg but it was many years ago so I don’t recall what he had to say about bootlegging before rock bootlegs took off in 1969 with Great White Wonder; I know from other sources that piracy was an issue in the classical music industry well before that, but I don’t know about the jazz world. But apparently it was enough of a thing for Mingus to use to promote his own stuff…
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