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Rudee, M. Lea. San Diego jazz photographs, 1981-1991.

Title: San Diego jazz photographs, 1981-1991.

Twenty-four black and white photographs taken of jazz performances in San Diego, 1981-1991. Most of the performances were part of the annual San Diego Jazz Festival. Performers include: Anthony Braxton, Lester Bowie, Dave Brubeck, Gunnar Biggs, Cab Calloway, Betty Carter, Jeannie Cheatham, Jimmy Cheatham, Hollis Gentry, Dexter Gordon, Ella James, Thad Jones, Stanley Jordan, Barney Kessel, Oliver Lake, Kevyn Lettau, Cecil Lytle, Winton Marsalis, Bobby McFerin, Charles McPherson, Jay McShann, Art Pepper, V. Redd, ad Sonny Rollins.

ArchivalResource: 24 photographs : b&w ; 36 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32187132 View

Bishop, Keith. Jazz composers, arrangers and performers.

Title: Jazz composers, arrangers and performers.

Presents the full oral histories of three jazz artists (Frank Comstock, Clare Fischer, and Bill Perkins) and the biography of a fourth (Gene Puerling), whose oral history is restricted to onsite access at CSULB Library. In addition to documenting their own individual careers, the accounts of these narrators provide insights into the trends and careers of musicians who practiced their art from the 1950s to the present, many of whom earned their living working in the radio, television, and film industry.

ArchivalResource: 9 compact discs (approx. 8 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62097477 View

Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View

Duke Ellington recordings collection

Title: Duke Ellington recordings collection

Recordings of Duke Ellington, American pianist, band leader, andcomposer, collected by Joseph Jeffers Dodge, jazz aficionado, artist, museum director, andHarvard University Class of 1940.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings (33 linear feet) and accompanying materials (1 box).

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/mus00006/catalog View

Jazz Society of Oregon photographs collection, 1977-1981

Title: Jazz Society of Oregon photographs collection 1977-1981

The collection documents Jazz Society of Oregon events, performers, performances, rehearsals, audiences, and venues. Color photographs of performers, performances, and scenery at the Otter Crest '78 Jazz Weekend, the first such event sponsored by the Society, comprise the bulk of the collection.

ArchivalResource: 0.95 cubic feet; 126 photographs and 35 film negatives in 1 document box and 1 oversize folder

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv87900 View

Pepper, Art, 1925-1982. Waltz me blues : lead sheet : unpublished copyright deposit, 1957 / Art Pepper ; Paul Chambers.

Title: Waltz me blues : lead sheet : unpublished copyright deposit, 1957 / Art Pepper ; Paul Chambers.

ArchivalResource: 1 lead sheet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/469709866 View

Jazz Society of Oregon. Jazz Society of Oregon Photographs [graphic], 1977-1981.

Title: Jazz Society of Oregon Photographs [graphic], 1977-1981.

The collection documents Jazz Society of Oregon events, performers, performances, rehearsals, audiences, and venues. Color photographs of performers, performances, and scenery at the Otter Crest '78 Jazz Weekend, the first such event sponsored by the Society, comprise the bulk of the collection.

ArchivalResource: 126 photographic prints : b&w & col. ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.) or smaller.35 negatives : col. ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54993411 View