Johnson, Budd. Manuscript Scores: Guide 1910-1984

Loesser, Frank, 1910-1969

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Frank Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won a Tony Award for Guys and Dolls and shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How to Succeed. He also wrote songs for over 60 Hollywood films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards for best song, winning once for "Baby, It's Cold Outside". ...

Coleman, Ornette, 1930-2015

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Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945

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Composer and songwriter Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is best remembered for his Broadway and film work including the lovely melodies from Showboat, "Old Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," and "Bill," as well as standards such as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "The Way You Look Tonight". The collection consists primarily of show music, including some holograph sketches. There are many full and vocal scores in the hand of Kern's orchestrators and arrangers, especially Frank Saddler and Robert Russ...

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979

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Richard Rodgers, composer and producer, was born in New York on June 28, 1902. He composed his first song, My Auto Show Girl when he was fourteen years old. (This is included in the collection Box 16, Folder 6) In 1918 Rodgers met his first professional partner, Lorenz Hart. Together they presented their first hit show, The Garrick Gaieties in 1925. In 1929 Rodgers and Hart appeared in a two-reel autobiographical short, Masters of Melodyproduced by Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. and written and di...

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960

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Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Richard Rodgers, whose musicals include Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music....

Lowe, Mundell, 1922-....

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Marsalis, Ellis

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Jazz pianist and music professor Ellis Louis Marsalis, Jr., was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 14, 1934. As a youth, Marsalis played clarinet. From the age of eleven, he studied the clarinet at Xavier University's Junior School of Music (New Orleans), a preparatory course for the university. He would later ask his mother to get him a tenor saxophone so he could begin playing Rhythm "n Blues, the popular music of the day. He added piano to his studies while still in high school.Marsa...

Carter, Benny

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Hines, Earl, 1903-1983

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Musician; interviewee d. 1983. From the description of Reminiscences of Earl Kenneth (Fatha) Hines : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419716 Jazz musician. From the description of Clipping with autograph signed : [1963]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904707 Biographical Information (b Duquesne, PA, 28 Dec 1903; d Oakland, CA, 22 April 1983)....

Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977

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Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to ...

Corea, Chick

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Conover, Willis, 1920-1996

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Willis Clark Conover, Jr. was born on December 18, 1920 in Buffalo, New York. His father, Willis C. Conover, Sr., was an officer in the U.S. Army, and the family relocated frequently. Willis Conover Jr. later reported that he had attended 25 different schools before graduating high school. As a teenager, he struck up correspondence with science fiction and horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, exchanging letters for several months before Lovecraft's death. During that time, Conover also co-edited the Sc...

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

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Duke Ellington (b. Edward Kennedy Ellington, April 29, 1899, Washington, DC–d. May 24, 1974, New York, NY) was a composer, pianist, and jazz orchestra leader. He began piano lessons at 7 and wrote his first composition, "Soda Fountain Rag", in 1914. Ellington became a more serious piano student as a teenager after hearing poolroom pianists in Washington, DC. Ellington moved to Harlem, ultimately becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 1920s. He began a regular booking at the Cott...

P. Stone

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David Frishberg

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Clifford Jordan

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Otis Blackwell

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Matyas Seiber

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American Federation of Musicians

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B. Paige

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Will Hudson

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Richard Carpenter

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Peggy Lee

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A. L. Lloyd

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John Dobson

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Gerald Ginsberg

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Harold L. Ousley

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Billy Rose

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Nottingham, Jimmy, 1925-1978

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Charles Singleton

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Don Redman

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Al Cohn

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Alan Broadbent

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Johnny Warrington

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Jesse Stone

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Erskine Hawkins

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Juan Carlos Calderon

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Cohan, George M., Jr., 1914-2000

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J. Nottingham

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Budd Johnson

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Matthew Gee

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Gee, Matthew, 1925-1979

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Nino Rota

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Eddie Snyder

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Oliver, Nelson.

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S. M. O'Loughlin

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Carl Perkins

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William Johnson

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Franz Jackson

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Cliff Ferre

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Fred Barovick

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Ben Aronov

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Larry Kusik

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Marty Cantine

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Allan Roberts

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Julian Sash

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Lubell, Gwenn

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Van Alexander

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Jackson Johnson

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Jody Spencer

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Jimmy Nottingham

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Ted Koehler

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Otto Harbach

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Bert Kaempfert

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Vic Dickenson

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Paul Weirick

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Ric Marlow

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Charlie Rouse

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Nat Simon

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Bobby Scott

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Emil Boyd

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Oliver Jackson

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Harold Arlen

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Sonny Burke

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Eubie Blake

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Mike Longo

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Johnny Fincke

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Ruth Hickman

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Jones, Quincy

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Johnson, Budd

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Smith, Hale, 1925-2009

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Doris Fisher

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Hester, Mary Lee

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Jimmy Kennedy

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Al Jolson

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Hugh Griffith

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Mike Hawker

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Keg Johnson

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Ben Monroe

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E. Finckel

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Noble Sissle

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Norris Turney

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Paul McCartney

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Hale Smith

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Harry Woods

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Martin, Williams

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Carl Stokes

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Dave Dreyer

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Sonny Stitt

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Jackson, Oliver

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John Lennon

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Mark McIntyre

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Jordan, Clifford

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Longo, Michael

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Dill Jones

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