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Edward V. Bonnemere collection
Collection
Identifier: 2017
Content Description
Includes correspondence, clippings, biographical data, photographs, and ephemera related to the career of Eddie V. Bonnemere - a proponent of jazz music in liturgical settings. Also includes an audiocassette of Bonnemere's album Isn't it Odd?
Dates:
Other: 1966-1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Henderson Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 177
Scope and Contents
The Henderson Family Papers (2.0 linear feet) contain documentation on the life and work of Fletcher Hamilton Henderson (1857-1943); his wife, Ozie Lee Chapman Henderson (1865-1937); their children, Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. (1897-1952); Irma Henderson Jacobs (1900-1976); and Horace Wade Henderson (b. 1903); and their only grandchild, Ozie Teresa Henderson Burroughs (b. 1928). The papers are principally non-correspondence, including contracts, a variety of diplomas and certificates,...
Dates:
Created: 1877-1988; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: 274
Content Description
This collection includes 59 audiocassette tape interviews with 27 Louisiana-based musicians across multiple genres, including jazz, zydeco, classical, R&B, and Mardi Gras Indian traditions. The collection was formed out of a project funded by NOJHF and coordinated by Tom Dent from 1983-1988. The Foundation donated the collection to Amistad prior to the formation of its own archives.Interviewees include Placide Adams, Alvin Alcorn, Morris Ardoin, Danny Barker, Alvin Batiste,...
Dates:
Other: 1982-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Lloyd H. Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: 455
Content Description
Lloyd H. Smith of New Orleans, Louisiana, was a collector of jazz music and books on the topic. The collection contains approximately 580 phonograph jazz recordings by performers such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Erskine Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, the Ink Spots, Charlie Parker, Artie Shaw, Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Pete Fountain, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Fletcher Henderson, and others. He also donated 44 books on the topic...
Dates:
Other: 1939-1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
WGBH Radio New Orleans Jazz Modules collection
Collection
Identifier: 2062
Content Description
The WGBH Radio New Orleans Jazz Modules collection includes a series of nine audio histories of New Orleans jazz musicians and jazz scholars, each under ten minutes in length. Topics and/or artists include: Ellis Marsalis on teaching jazz; Jason Berry on jazz funerals; Roger Lewis; Ed Blackwell; Danny Barker; Edward "Kidd" Jordan; Blue Lou Barker; and African retention in New Orleans culture. Accompanying the audiocassette is a memorandum with a brief description of the content of each audio...
Dates:
Other: 1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
James E. Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: 602
Content Description
James E. Williams was a jazz pianist and music educator. He was born in 1951 in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Memphis State University before moving to Boston to teach at the Berklee School of Music (1972-1977) and, later, William Paterson University in New Jersey. While teaching at Berklee, Williams performed with musicians Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw, among others. Williams performed with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1977 to 1981. Williams moved to New York City in 1984, where he...
Dates:
Other: 1972-2001
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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