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...

Content Description Les Productions fumière présentent CONTRASTE "du Classique au Jazz." Theatre National du Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 15 Juin, 1945. Upright folio. 56 pp. Gray wrappers with raised embossed printing, bound with French red/white/blue twisted silk cord. Semigloss pages printed in black and white with blue highlighting, and including many illustration pages and some advertisements, interspersed with heavy stock pages, some with tipped-in semigloss reproductions of historic documents. Stamped 111...

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Program for a Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra concert in London, February 1964. Bears the signatures of Ellington and approximately 16 members of his orchestra, inscribed to Walter Heugham, president of the Duke Ellington Jazz Society in England.

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 Of particular note are Moxon's original unpublished manuscript account of the visit, personal mementos, signed invitations and photographs, press notices, programs, and large broadsides...