Full sheet of "Jazz musicians" stamps issued by the United States Postal Service in 1995 in the "Legends of American music series," with two copies of stamp for each musician for a total of 20 stamps per sheet.
Scott Catalogue: U.S. #2983-92 1995 32 cts Jazz Musicians.
Set of ten commemorative stamps issued by the United States Postal Service honoring ten American jazz musicians. Stamps were issued in a pane of 20, on September 16, 1995 in Monterey, California, at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The stamps, designed by Dean Mitchell of Overland Park, Kansas, and Thomas Blackshear of Colorado Springs, Colorado, featured pianists Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Erroll Garner, and Thelonious Monk; saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane; cornetist Louis Armstrong; and bassist Charles Mingus. The Jazz Musicians stamps were issued as the last addition of 1995 to the Postal Service's Legends of American Music Stamp series. Ashton-Potter (USA) Ltd. printed the stamps in the lithographic offset process.
Musicians: Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Eubie Blake, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, John Coltraine, Erroll Garner; captions include name and epithet, 32 and USA.
James Fuld.
Fuld, James J., 1916-2008, former owner.