New York Jazz Museum records 1960-1987 1961-1977

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New York Jazz Museum records 1960-1987 1961-1977

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20616

The New York Jazz Museum records consist of the following series: Board of Directors, administrative records, and programs/projects. Included are minutes and agendas of Board of Director meetings, and administrative records composed of correspondence of the Executive Director, Howard Fischer, and correspondence written during the administration of Ann Ruckert, president of the Board of Directors who assumed leadership of the Museum following Howard Fischer's dismissal in February 1977.

27.2 lin. ft. (24 record cartons, 8 shoeboxes, 2 archival boxes)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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SNAC Resource ID: 6316910

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Ruckert, Ann

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Fischer, Howard E.

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New York Jazz Museum

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The New York Jazz Museum was founded in 1972 to preserve jazz as an art form and to educate the public about jazz. It developed from the New York Hot Jazz Society, Inc. which was founded in 1967 by Howard E. Fischer who also became the Museum's first executive director. The Museum documented jazz by collecting records, sheet music, books, periodicals, memorabilia, oral histories and other material, and featured live music, exhibits, films, an audiovisual outline of jazz ...

Bruyninckx, Walter

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