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Harold R. Battiste papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 451
Scope and Contents As a central figure among a small group of jazz musicians and jazz educators who shaped the second 50 years of New Orleans jazz, the papers of Harold R. Battiste document Battiste's career as an influential composer, producer, educator, and promoter of modern jazz music. Also documented are Battiste's various business ventures in the area of music, including his work with Sonny and Cher and the foundation and history of All For One (A.F.O.) Records and At Last Publishing Co., the first...
Dates: Created: 1928-2010; Other: Date acquired: 08/12/1994

Delfeayo Marsalis oral history interview

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2342
Abstract

Transcription of an oral history interview conducted by Mary Ellison with musician Delfeayo Marsalis. The interview includes reminiscences of his family, jazz music, growing up in New Orleans, and other musicians.

Dates: Created: 1995; Other: Date acquired: 08/18/1996

Ellis Marsalis, Jr. papers

 Collection — Container: OV Items 2 and 3
Identifier: 723
Scope and Contents This collection from New Orleans pianist and composer Ellis Marsalis Jr. contains correspondence, certificates, contracts, sheet music, sound recordings, photographs, and ephemera that encompass Mr. Marsalis’s six-decade career as a musician and music instructor. Correspondence dating from 1959 to 2013, is related to Marsalis' teaching and lecturing, performance dates, and letters of recommendation on behalf of his students at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). It...
Dates: Created: 1946-2016; Other: Majority of material found in 1980-2010; Other: Date acquired: 09/28/2008