Jazz Institute of Chicago. Gillis, Frank. Collection 1920-1941

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Jazz Institute of Chicago. Gillis, Frank. Collection 1920-1941

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Frank Gillis, pianist, jazz historian, and archivist. As a pianist, Gillis played with Bobby Hackett, Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden, Doc Cenardo, and Doc Evans. Gillis served as the Director of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University. The Jazz Institute of Chicago Frank Gillis Collection contains stock arrangements, which are published orchestrations for instrumental ensembles--bands or small orchestras--that enable them to perform popular songs or piano works that were previously unpublished or published only as piano or piano-vocal works.

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University of Chicago. Chicago Jazz Archive

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Founded in 1976, the University of Chicago Library's Chicago Jazz Archive initially sought to preserve materials documenting the birth and early growth of jazz in Chicago. In partnership with the Jazz Institute of Chicago the collections grew significantly. Collections now detail more than eight decades of Chicago jazz life and history. Recordings, publications, photographs, articles, posters, programs, ticket stubs, and other ephemera of musicians, clubs, record companies, and jazz...

Gillis, Frank

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Frank Gillis was a pianist, jazz historian, and archivist. As a musician he played traditional-style jazz in the 1930s and 1940s with such greats as Bobby Hackett, Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden and drummer Doc Cenardo. Among their venues was the Ash Trumpet Club in Detroit. He also served as the regular pianist for Doc Evans in the 1950s and 1960s. Gillis served as the Associate Director of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University from 1964-1977 and Director...