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Basie, Count, 1904-1984 1
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 Collection
Identifier: IJS-0162

Scope and Contents: This collection contains 291 open reel audio recordings. The recordings consist of mostly Chicago-area live performances (1952-1958). Performers include Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Woody Herman, Arnett Cobb, Milt Buckner, Louis Jordan, Stan Kenton, Billy Taylor, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Johnny Pate, Donald Shirley, and Horace Henderson. There are also recordings of the Birdland All-Stars from 1955 and 1957, featuring Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie and his orchestra, Erroll Garner, and Bud...
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Identifier: IJS-0239

Scope and Contents:

This collection is made up of 174 cassette tapes and one open reel tape. The recordings include interviews for Time Life Records with prominent jazz musicians including Duke Ellington, Cozy Cole, and Artie Shaw, conducted by multiple interviewers between 1952 and 1982.

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Identifier: IJS-0161

Scope and Contents: This collection spans Jackson's personal and professional life from his early career to his death. There are music manuscripts and sketches, lyrics, artist song books, and published bass trombone music books. Also included is a tour itinerary, travel receipts, airplane tickets, concert programs, tourist brochures, and souvenirs. There is a copy of a transcript of Milt Hinton’s interview with Quentin (1978) from the Smithsonian Institution’s Jazz Oral History project. The...
 Collection
Identifier: IJS-0244

Scope and Contents:

This collection includes audiocassettes of the 1993 Ellington Society conference.