William Russo Music and Personal Papers
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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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Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010
Musical History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1948-1993
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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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Claxton, William
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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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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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Sun Ra
Gaskin, Leonard, 1920-
Taylor, Billy
Stokes, W. Royal, Dr., 1930-
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ca. 1970-2000.
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9.65 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0766
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publicity photographs of musicians and entertainers, mostly jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, but including many rock and even a few classical performers. The collection also contains tape recorded radio interviews conducted between 1970 and 2003. In addition there are posters relating to musical performances.
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Kliman, Jeffrey, 1942-
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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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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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Newman, Earl
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1963-2009
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0.6 Cubic feet (12 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1207
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection contains sixty-two posters commemorating the Monterey Jazz Festival, created, designed, and signed by Earl Newman.
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Bress, Chuck
Bress, Pat
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1984-1990
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1219
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily black-and-white photographic prints and photographic negatives created by Pat Bress and Chuck Bress in the late 1980s. The photographs depict jazz musicians and singers performing at two Washington, D.C. night clubs, Charley's Place and Blues Alley, in challenging lighting situations. Also, a box of correspondence and miscellaneous writte...