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| The UCLA Music Library is actively developing its Jazz archival collections in support of performance and research activities in the departments of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, among others. Current strengths are sound recordings, sheet music and photographs. Substantial recent gifts have included a core collection of monographs and reference books (André Chaves Collection), sheet music and photographs from the Estate of Ella Fitzgerald, the Bill Green archival collection, over 63,000 78rpm sound recordings from the Ray Avery Rare Records store in Glendale (George Hocutt Collection), the Horace Tapscott Archive, and the Howard Morehead Collection of photographs. |
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Jazz Archival Collections
- André Chaves Collection
Approx. 1150 books, including reference works (discographies, catalogs, guides, etc.); monographs on musicians, styles, institutions, places; jazz histories; literature with jazz themes; photographs. This collection forms the core of a research-oriented non-circulating Jazz Reference collection.
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- A&M Records Collection of business papers, sound recordings, music manuscripts, and memorabilia
The collection consists of sound recordings, manuscript musical arrangements, photographs, correspondence, promotional materials, posters, gold albums, awards, books and ephemera from just prior to the company’s founding in 1962 through its sale to Polygram in 1989 and a few years thereafter, while Moss and Alpert were still affiliated with the label.
The collection is in the midst of being procesed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
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- Collection of Big Band Photographs
Commercial publicity photographs of American dance bands, combo bands and singers, such as Ray Herback, Tiny Hill, Hoosier Hot Shots, Eddy Howard, Dick Jurgens, Gene Krupa, Jack Leonard, Light Crust Doughboys, Louise Massey and the Westerners, Frankie Masters, Ray Noble, Kate Smith, Alec Templeton, Orrin Tucker and Bonnie Baker, Horace Henderson, Eddy Duchin, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Roy Acuff and his Smokey Mountain Boys, Gene Autry, Horace Heidt, Charlie Winninger, Benny Goodman's Sensational Swing Band, Paul Whiteman, and others.
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- Collection of Music Journals
The collection consists of various music journal titles.
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- John Coltrane Transcriptions Collection
Transcriptions by Andrew White of sound recordings of saxophone solos played by Coltrane.
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- Eric Dolphy Transcriptions Collection
Transcriptions by Andrew White of sound recordings of saxophone solos played by Dolphy.
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- Ella Fitzgerald Collection
Photographs and sheet music (ca. 4500 items) from the estate of Ella Fitzgerald.
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- Bill Green Collection of Music Manuscripts, Recordings and Papers
Fake books, instructional materials, music manuscripts, papers, sound recordings, and videocassettes from the estate of the alto saxophonist, Bill Green.
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- George Hocutt/Ray Avery It's Rare Records, Jazz Record Store Collection
The collection consits of approximately 63,305 sound recordings, and business papaers in all formats from the Ray Avery, It's Rare Records record store in Glendale, CA.
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- Shelly Manne Collection
Sound recordings, photographs, jazz magazines and journals, drumming method books, sheet music, books, tour itineraries, programs and fliers.
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- Howard Morehead Collection of Photographs and Papers
Photographs, taken by Morehead, of jazz musicians in Los Angeles from ca. 1950- . Finding aid in process.
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- Charlie Parker Transcriptions Collection
Transcriptions by Andrew White of sound recordings of saxophone solos played by Parker.
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- Paul Tanner Collection of Jazz and Popular Music Sound Recordings
The collection predominantly consists of commercial 78 rpm and 33 1/3 rpm (LP) disc recordings of jazz music, with some popular and ethnic music as well. Also included are a small number of 45 rpm discs, a few 16 inch transcription discs, a film and some film clips, as well as a separate collection of commercial and non-commercial recordings of the Glenn Miller Band, in which Tanner played trombone for a time.
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- Horace Tapscott Jazz Collection
The collection consists of sound recordings, musical compositions and arrangements of Horace Tapscott and other composers, and the performances of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension.
The collection is in the midst of being processed, and updates will be made to this finding aid periodically.
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- Mark Weber Jazz Collection
The collection consists of photographs taken by Mark Weber relating to the experimental jazz musicians during the 1970's - 1990's, predominant focus on photos taken in Los Angeles from 1976-1985. Also included are notes, clippings, interview transcripts, correspondence, programs, flyers and articles.
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- Additional sound recordings
The Archive of Popular American Music collections include large numbers of sound recordings of Jazz. Of particular note is an extensive collection of the Gennett label, including many early recordings of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Jelly Roll Morton.
Many other collections in Music Library Special Collections contain material pertaining to Jazz, including many film music and sheet music collections. Of particular importance is the Collection of Instrumental arrangements, ca. 1890-1965 in the Archive of Popular American Music.
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