Woody Hite collection, circa 1919-1988 (bulk 1937-1955)

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Woody Hite collection, circa 1919-1988 (bulk 1937-1955)

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Photographs, clippings, posters, and ephemera documenting Woody Hite and his big band, musicians active in northwestern Oregon from the 1930s and 1940s. The band was revived in the early 1970s by Hite's brother Don HIte. Also includes a phonograph record of the "Top o Scott Band," 1945; three issues of the newsletter "Uptown echoes" for 1941; and photographs of a model quonset hut house, circa 1945. Among the photographs are images of Duke Ellington and his band on their visit to Portland, Oregon, in 1941.

1 cubic foot (1 document case and 2 oversize folders)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8150011

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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...

HIte, Don.

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Hite, Woody.

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Duke Ellington Orchestra

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