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Free, Jerry D.
International Battle of the Bands, Inc.
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1981-1998.
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32 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0677
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business records, scrapbooks, audio disks, videotape, audio tape, and photographs documenting the business and entertainment activities at the International Battle of the Bands.
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Rockwell, David Hadley
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1980-2004, undated
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3.2 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1342
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An extensive collection of advertisements, club cards, ephemera, and invitations publicizing venues and events at entertainment clubs and venues in New York City, New York, New Jersey, and Florida. The materials make use of a variety of graphic arts styles.
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Lincoln, Abbey, 1930 -
Adderly, Nat, 1931-
Wilson, Nancy, 1937-
Mbulu, Letta
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1916-2010, undated
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23.6 Cubic feet (96 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1221
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Levy's short career as a musician, his longer career as a manager, and the careers of some of his clients. The client most well represented in the collection is Nancy Wilson, with recordings, photographs, correspondence, financial statements, and contracts included. Papers relating to other clients include business records ...
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Albertson, Chris
Barnet, Charlie, 1913-1991
Bigard, Barney, 1906-1980
Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991
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1971-1984
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4.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0327
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
160 7" reel-to-reel audiotapes and 12 transcriptions of 15 oral history interviews with prominent jazz musicians and their professional relationships with Duke Ellington. Tapes are copies of originals held at the at Institute for Jazz Studies, Rutgers University. Interviewees include Sonny Greer, Russell Procope, Clark Terry, Juan Tizol, Tom Whale...
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Brown, Ray (Jazz musician)
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circa 1940-2010
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8 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1362
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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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LeRoy Neiman papers
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Neiman, LeRoy, 1921-2012
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1938-2005
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70.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.neimlero
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Archives of American Art
The papers of LeRoy Neiman measure approximately 70.5 linear feet and date from 1938-2005. The collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, project files, printed material and artifacts documenting the career of the American painter LeRoy Neiman.
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Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
Fishman, Charles
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1941-2006
bulk 1987-1993
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20 Cubic feet ( 31 boxes, 2 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0979
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the career of noted American jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie, through a donation from his former manager, Charles Fishman.
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Short, Bobby
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1908-2006
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13.6 Cubic feet (35 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0946
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Bobby Short was a singer and pianist whose career spanned seven decades. An interpreter of American popular music, he became a performer in childhood and remained active until his death. He is best known for his more than 35 years as performer-in-residence at the Hotel Carlyle's Café Carlyle in New York City. This collection contains personal papers and photographs as well as business papers, musical materials and photographs relating to Mr. Short's career as a performing artist.
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Sarchiapone, Cosmos Andrew, 1931-2011
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circa 1860-2011
bulk 1940-2011
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49.2 Linear feet
0.367 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.sarccosm
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Archives of American Art
The papers of New York City photographer, conceptual artist, and musical composer Cosmos Sarchiapone measure 49.2 linear feet and 0.367 GB and date from circa 1860-2011, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1940-2011. The collection includes biographical material and personal business records; correspondence; extensive writings, including written and recorded music compositions; teaching files; printed material and published sound and video recordings; photographic material; artwork; artifacts; and unpublished sound recordings and born-digital material. Highlights of the collection are more than 40,000 photographic images documenting New York's avant-garde art scene of the 1970s, along with celebrity parties, concerts, exhibition openings and other occasions in the art, music, and theater world. Extensive and somewhat rare printed materials offer users a visual chronical of the downtown art world in the form of posters from the 1970s, including a number of Milton Glaser's, and hundreds of exhibition announcements, theater programs, and playbills.
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Frank Hubbard
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1930-2003
bulk 1949-2003
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30 Cubic feet (76 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1256
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents approximately fifty years of the Hubbard Harpsichord business. The records include correspondence, financial and accounting materials, sales and promotional materials, records, newsletters, dealer files, project files, photographs, research files on European instruments, kit manuals, and design drawings.
