Bill Holman Collection
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Holman, Bill, 1927-
Kenton, Stan
Monk, Thelonious
Basie, Count, 1904-
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1951-2000
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12 Cubic feet (68 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0733
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Bill Holman Collection consists of original music compositions and arrangements, posters, performance contracts and a photograph dating from 1952 to 1999. The collection is organized into two series: Series 1: Music Manuscripts; and Series 2: Photographs and Business Records.
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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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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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Morrow, Buddy
Mooney, Art
Timbrell, Tiny, 1917-1992
Stacy, Jess, 1904-1995
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1927 - 1966
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1.5 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of 235 pieces of music ephemera assembled by an anonymous California musicologist over several decades. The contents include such things as concert ticket stubs; show programs; handbills; publicity stills; record store posters; nightclub souvenirs; autographs; contracts, lobby cards; movie stills; postcards; fan and record i...
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Morrow, Buddy
Mooney, Art
Timbrell, Tiny, 1917-1992
Stacy, Jess, 1904-1995
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1927 - 1966
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1.5 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1388
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of 235 pieces of music ephemera assembled by an anonymous California musicologist over several decades. The contents include such things as concert ticket stubs; show programs; handbills; publicity stills; record store posters; nightclub souvenirs; autographs; contracts, lobby cards; movie stills; postcards; fan and record i...
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Russo, William, 1928-2003
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circa 1967-1968
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0406
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
William Russo Transcription and Arrangement of Duke Ellington's First Concert of Sacred Music consists of the full conductor score, orchestral parts, and choral parts to "In the Beginning God," "Tell Me It's the Truth," "Come Sunday," "The Lord's Prayer," "Will You Be There?" "Ain't But the One," and "David Danced." The transcription and arrangemen...
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O'Farrill, Chico, 1921-
O'Farrill, Lupe
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
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1975 - 1975
1999 - 1999
1949
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0892
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the professional career of Chico O'Farrill, Cuban-born trumpet player, composer and arranger of Afro Cuban, bebop, and other styles of jazz.
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Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010
Musical History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1948-1993
- Size:
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5.6 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0445
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of 110 black-and-white photographic prints depicting musicians performing at various American and European jazz clubs between 1948 and 1991. The collection contains mounted and unmounted 11" x 14" and 16" x 20" prints made by Leonard. Artists represented among these photographs are Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gi...
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Kliman, Jeffrey, 1942-
- Dates:
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1993 - 2001
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0.25 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0628
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the District Curators Jazz Arts Festivals held in Washington, D.C. between 1993 and 1998 and the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams' Women in Jazz Series, 1996-2000. The subjects of the District Curators Festivals include the Steve and Iqua Colson Sextet, Sonny Sharrock Band, Don Bryon Quartet, David Sanchez, David Murray...
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Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1993-1997
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45 cu. ft. (45 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-091
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of original audiotape recordings, on 2 inch reels, documenting the production of Jazz Smithsonian: a concert series, hosted by Lena Horne, which featured the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra performing classic American jazz of the 1920s through 1950s, and included stories of acclaimed composers and performers. ...