DescriptionThis scrapbook primarily includes photographs of Catherine Basie in her charitable and civic work, photographs of and clippings related to Count Basie as performer, and a few Basie family photographs,...
Date Created1940-1960
Subject(s)Jazz--History and criticism, Women in charitable work, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Basie, Catherine
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes clippings and ephemera from the Count Basie Orchestra performances in 1963 in Tokyo in honor of the 10th anniversary of Nippon Television Network.
Date Created1963
Subject(s)Jazz--History and criticism, Big bands, African Americans--Music, Concert tours, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Count Basie Orchestra, Witherspoon, Jimmy, Nihon Terebi
DescriptionThis is an audio from a television broadcast at the Blue Note in 1960. The audio begins with music from a nightclub by pianist Alice McLeod (later Coltrane), with Don King (bass) and Don Brown...
DescriptionThis audio appears to be the soundtrack to a tribute to or a documentary about Bud Powell that may have been put together by Francis Paudras. The audio begins with traffic sounds and the tune "Dance...
DescriptionThe first forty-five seconds of this audio are blank. Then there are two incomplete clips of a television soundtrack. The first is "I'll Remember April" at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 13, 1960....
DescriptionThis audio is from a 1960 television broadcast. Bud Powell plays John's Abbey. Then the host (Sim Copans) introduces Lucky Thompson (2:38). Thompson (soprano saxophone), pianist Alice McLeod (later...
DescriptionThe recording begins with a collage of mostly fragmentary audio clips of Bud Powell, Francis Paudras and others speaking, followed by street or traffic noises. Powell's famous recording of...
DescriptionThis audio contains a brief story, possibly told by Dexter Gordon, overlapping with Bud Powell's piano, playing his composition “Oblivion." The audio appears to be from a documentary soundtrack. At...
Date Created1950-1994
Subject(s)African American jazz musicians, Powell, Bud
DescriptionBud Powell as a special guest with Charles Mingus performs "I'll Remember April" at the 1st Festival Jazz d'Antibes, Juan-le-Pins, France. July 13, 1960. The performers include Charlie Mingus (bass),...
DescriptionBud Powell as a special guest with Charles Mingus performs "I'll Remember April" at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 13, 1960. The performers include Charlie Mingus (bass), Bud Powell (piano), Eric...
