Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans

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...

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This collection consists of one 14 x 14 in. black and white photograph of New Orleans musician Harold R. Battiste in front of a piano by New Orleans fine art photographer Eric Paul Julien. The photograph is signed, numbered, and dated by the photographer. The photograph was taken in 2008.

Scope and Contents The personal papers of Jason Berry, author, civil rights activist, and press secretary to Charles Evers, consist of 7.89 linear feet of material related to civil rights, politics, and race relations in Mississippi and Louisiana. The papers also document Berry's journalism and interest in the history of jazz in New Orleans, as well as environmental issues in southeast Louisiana. The bulk of the materials consist of documentation related to Charles Evers' gubernatorial (1971) and senatorial...

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Osceola Blanchet was a pianist, school teacher, and a member of the Osceola Five, a singing group formed in New Orleans in 1925. The original male quintet included Blanchet, Andrew J. Young, Laddie Melton, and Lord Beaconsfield Landry, and performed classical and spiritual music. The collection includes concert programs for the Osceola Five and other local concerts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, rosters of subsequent members of the quintet, and sheet music.

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The papers of New Orleans musician and composer Roger Dickerson are comprised of correspondence, news clipipngs, and programs.

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...