Virgil Whyte "All-Girl" Band Collection
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Kovan, Florice Whyte
Whyte, Virgil (bandleader)
- Dates:
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1942-1948, 1991-1993
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3 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0503
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes 7 VHS videotapes and 1 audio tape produced by Florice Whyte Kovan, containing interviews and recollections by some band members. Studio portraits and snapshot photographs in 3 scrapbooks, which also contain display advertisements and newspaper clippings from about the band, 1940s. Snapshots include documentation of the band's travels and l...
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McCarter, Jay
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1940s-1950s.
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0541
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of 78 r.p.m. recordings of jazz artists, including many by Duke Ellington, many of them test pressings.
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1991-2001
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8 cu. ft. (16 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-062
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiotapes created during the production of the radio series "Jazz Smithsonian." Hosted by Lena Horne, the series features the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in concert, performing classic American jazz of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as well as oral histories of American jazz legends. Each show i...
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1994-2000
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3 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-181
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiotapes and compact discs created during the production of the radio series "Jazz Smithsonian." Hosted by Lena Horne, the series features the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in concert, performing classic American jazz of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as well as oral histories of American jazz legends...
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Edelson, Rachel Goodman
Division of Musical History, NMAH
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
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circa 1964
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1 Item (1 oversize file folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0381
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A poster documenting Goodman's 1964 tour to Japan and the published sheet music for Brahms's QUINTET FOR CLARINET IN A and SONATA FOR CLARINET IN B.
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Strayhorn, Billy (William Thomas), 1915-1967
Claxton, William
Kenton, Stan
Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010
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1920-2002
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87 Cubic feet (188 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0845
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers and audiovisual materials documenting Russo's career in music.
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Claxton, William
- Dates:
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1955-1960.
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1 Cubic foot (28 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0695
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs consist of 16 x 20 inch silver gelatin; selenium-toned archival photographic prints of jazz musicians performing and recording music throughout the United States.
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Contractor, Navroze
- Dates:
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1978-1995
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0569
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black-and-white photographic prints depicting jazz musician Eddie Moore and musicians who played in tribute to Moore that include Billy Bang, Cecil Bridgewater, Calvin Hill, Keith Jarrett, Jimmy Knepper, Albert Mangelsdorf, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Woody Shaw, and Michael White. Many of the photographs were taken at San Francisco's Keystone Korner, a popular jazz venue in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Brown, Ray (Jazz musician)
- Dates:
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circa 1940-2010
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8 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1362
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ray Brown was an African-American musician, composer, bandleader, manager, music teacher and promoter. He became best known for his collaborative work with Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, the Oscar Peterson Trio and Norman Granz' s Jazz at the Philharmonic. Over the course of his career, Brown received awards and accolades from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jazz Hall of Fame, Down Beat and Playboy. Brown's papers document his professional music career from 1944 to 2002 and include music compositions and notes, publicity materials, photographs and some recordings of his performances.
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Basie, Count, 1904-
Smith, Ernie
Webster, Ben
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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1894-1979
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30 Cubic feet (352 film reels , 16 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0491
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
More than 300 reels of 16mm black and white and color film, silent and sound, fiction and documentary motion picture film documenting jazz and related musical performances, social and popular dance styles and performances, jazz musicians, performance locales, and documentation of African-American popular culture. A list of featured performers in the collection is shown below. The films are frequently compilations produced by Smith for lectures.