Bobby Tucker Papers

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Bobby Tucker Papers

1883-2007, undated

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The collection documents the life and musical career of Robert "Bobby" Tucker. The collection particularly emphasizes Tucker's close collaboration with Billy Eckstine over a forty-year period from approximately 1949-1990, and includes original orchestrations of arrangements by Tucker and other arrangers, a complete set of commercial recordings by Eckstine for which Tucker served as arranger, and ephemeral material including photographs, concert programs and news clippings.

36 Cubic feet (88 boxes)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11663420

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Tucker, Bobby, 1923-2008

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Jones, Quincy, 1933-....

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An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, Quincy Jones' career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, television producer, record company executive, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur. As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including record...

Eckstine, Billy

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