Jazz Institute of Chicago Frank Gillis collection, 1920-1941 (inclusive).

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Jazz Institute of Chicago Frank Gillis collection, 1920-1941 (inclusive).

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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ensembles--bands or small orchestras--that enable them to perform popular songs or piano works that were previously unpublished or published only as piano or piano-vocal works.

.75 linear ft. (2 boxes)

University of Chicago Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7784444

University of Chicago Library

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Gillis, Frank R.

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Jazz Institute of Chicago

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Edgar Crilly served as a board member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago. From the description of Jazz Institute of Chicago Edgar Crilly collection, 1954-1992 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 607347403 From the guide to the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Crilly, Edgar. Collection, 1954-1992, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.) The Jazz Institute of Chicago...

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...