Celley, Al

Scope and Contents Photographs and ephemera collected by Ellington's road manager Al Celley, including an autograph narrative of the "Beige" movement from "Black, Brown, and Beige"; a typescript of the three movements of the same; Ellington's notes and correspondence from Doris Asbury regarding the same; typescript first draft of Ellington's "The Beggar's Opera"; concert and festival ephemera (badges, handbills, photographs, ticket) from Newport, Cardiff, and Monterey; concert poster in Arabic (10th Damascus...