Jazz -- Instruction and study
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Harold R. Battiste papers
Ellis Marsalis, Jr. papers
Collection — 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
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Ellis Marsalis, Jr. papers