Jazz

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...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscript material, printed ephemera and memorabilia, photographs, and phonographic records related to jazz artist Louis Armstrong and compiled by Jimmy Moxon, a colonial officer and Ghanaian civil servant who organized Armstrong's two-day visit to perform at Accra, Ghana, in May 1956. Of particular note are Moxon's original unpublished manuscript account of the visit, personal mementos, signed invitations and photographs, press notices, programs, and large broadsides...