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A promotional advertisement for Joe Glaser's personal management agency, designed around a musical staff motif in which circular portrait photographs of artists are positioned on the lines and spaces of three sets of staves, cleverly suggesting that each client is a musical note.

The headline reads "Every note a 'SOLID' one!" The fifteen artists represented are identified by name beneath their portraits: Louis Armstrong, Van Alexander, Red Allen, Mildred Bailey, Don Bestor, Les Brown, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Andy Kirk, Red Norvo, Reggie Childs, Russ Morgan, Gloria Parker, Jan Savitt, Freddie Slack, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, and Teddy Powell.

Louis Armstrong appears prominently at the top. In the lower right corner, a black box reads "Personal Management / JOE GLASER / 1436 RCA BLDG., N. Y. CIRCLE 7-0862."

Joe Glaser was Armstrong's longtime manager and founder of Associated Booking Corporation, and this advertisement reflects the breadth of his roster during the early 1940s.