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Ran Blake, Jazz Research Roundtable
Photo courtesy of Ed Berger
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Eke's Blues piano score
Undated
Ismay and George Duvivier Papers, Realia, and Audiovisual Materials -
Mary Lou Williams
By W. Eugene Smith
Late 1950s
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Jamale Davis, performance for 2012 Jazz Strings Concert Series
Photo courtesy of Ed Berger
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The Institute of Jazz Studies' mission is to enhance access to its collection to foster research in the areas of jazz and music history. IJS Digital Collections provides digital access to selected IJS collections in the Institute of Jazz Studies to further its mission and the mission of the Rutgers University Libraries to the Rutgers community, scholars, and the general public.
Featured Collection
The Jazz Oral History Project audio collection consists of 120 oral histories of seminal pre-Swing Era and Swing Era jazz musicians recorded between 1972 and 1983. The JOHP was initiated in 1972 by the Jazz Advisory Panel of the Music Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Musicians sixty years and older (as well as several younger artists in poor health) were interviewed in depth about their lives and careers. The taped interviews range in length from 5 to 35 hours each and are accompanied by typewritten transcripts. They have been consulted by hundreds of scholars and writers producing articles, books and dissertations, in addition to frequent use by producers of radio and television...more