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Collection Citation:
Rockwell Kent papers, circa 1840-1993, bulk 1935-1961. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Duncan Schiedt Jazz Collection, 1900-2012, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sponsor:
Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Ol' Man river.--It's Too Soon To Know.--Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee.--Cole Slaw.--If You See The Tears In My Eyes.--Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere.--Goodnight, Irene.--Don't You Know I Love You.--Shouldn't I Know.--Chains Of Love.--Heavenly Father.--Wheel Of Fortune.--5-To-15 Hours.--One Mint Julep.
Track Information:
101 Ol' Man River / Ravens (Musical group).
102 It's Too Soon to Know / Orioles (Musical group), Sonny Till.
103 Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee / Sticks McGhee.
104 Cole Slaw / Frank Culley.
105 If You See Tears in My Eyes / Delta Rhythm Boys.
106 Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere / Joe Morris, Laurie Tate.
107 Irene (Goodnight Irene) / Lead Belly.
201 Don't You Know I Love You / Clovers (Musical group).
202 Shouldn't I Know / Cardinals (Musical group).
203 Chains of Love / Joe Turner.
204 Heavenly Father / Edna McGriff.
205 Wheel of Fortune / Cardinals (Musical group).
206 5-10-15 Hours / Ruth Brown.
207 One Mint Julep / Clovers (Musical group).
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-1986
Atlantic.8161
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Atlantic New York 1968
General:
also includes the Ravens, the Orioles, Frank Cully, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Laurie Tate and Joe Morris Orchestra, the Clovers, the Cardinals, Edna McGriff, Ruth Brown
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Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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Hallelujah I love her so --Jim Dandy --From the bottom of my heart --Thirty days --I want to do more --It's too late --Corrine Corrina --Smooth operator --Steamboat --Treasure of love --I can't love you enough --Since I met you baby --Mary Ann.
Track Information:
102 Jim Dandy / LaVern Baker.
101 Hallelujah, I Love Her So / Ray Charles. Piano.
103 From the Bottom of My Heart / Clovers (Musical group), Bill Harris.
104 Thirty Days / Clyde McPhatter.
105 I Want to Do More / Ruth Brown.
106 It's Too Late / Clovers (Musical group), Bill Harris.
107 The Chicken and the Hawk / Joe Turner.
201 Corrine, Corrina / Joe Turner.
202 Smooth Operator / Ruth Brown.
203 Steamboat / Drifters (Musical group).
204 Treasure of Love / Clyde McPhatter.
205 I Can't Love You Enough / LaVern Baker.
206 Since I Met You Baby / Ivory Joe Hunter.
207 Mary Ann / Ray Charles. Piano.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-3049
Atlantic.8001
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York Atlantic 1957
General:
Program notes by Norman Orleck on container. Performer(s): Rhythm and blues songs; Ray Charles, LaVern Baker, the Clovers, Clyde McPhatter, Ruth Brown, Chuck Willis, Joe Turner, the Drifters, and Ivory Joe Hunter
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Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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101 Texas Swing / Johnny Gimble, Kenny Frazier. Fiddle.
102 Civil Rights Music / Freedom Singers, Bettie Mae Fikes.
103 Rhythm and Blues / Rodney Jones, Ruth Brown.
104 Rhythm and Blues / Imperials (Musical group), Clarence Collins.
Local Numbers:
FP-1996-CT-0477-7
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, August 10, 1996.
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Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Copyright and other restrictions may apply. Generally, materials created during a Festival are covered by a release signed by each participant permitting their use for personal and educational purposes; materials created as part of the fieldwork leading to a Festival may be more restricted. We permit and encourage such personal and educational use of those materials provided digitally here, without special permissions. Use of any materials for publication, commercial use, or distribution requires a license from the Archives. Licensing fees may apply in addition to any processing fees.
Opening Ceremony speakers include: Robert McCormick Adams, James Hurley, S. Dillon Ripley, Ambassador Ramley of Indonesia, Eleanor Arnold, Sen. Paul Simon, Secretary of Agriculture Ed Madigan, Ruth Brown, Vicki McGraw of Interior Dept., Richard Kurin, Jim Morris, Ralph Rinzler, Marian Lund, Sen. Tim Harkin
Track Information:
101 Opening Ceremonies: "Chirps" Smith Family: "The Rush and the Pepper" / Dorothy Kent, Kenny Applebee, Lynn Smith. Fiddle,Guitar.
104 Opening Ceremonies: Moving Star Hall Singers "You Got to Move".
105 Opening Ceremonies / James Hurley, Robert McCormick Adams, Sidney Dillon Ripley.
Local Numbers:
FP-1991-CT-0041-5
General:
tape /
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 28, 1991.
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Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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The collection is open for research. Only reference copies of audiovisual materials may be used.
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Reproduction restricted due to copyright or trademark. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection, 1880-2010, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sponsor:
Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Publicity photographs of musicians and entertainers, mostly jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, but including many rock and even a few classical performers. The collection also contains tape recorded radio interviews conducted between 1970 and 2003. In addition there are posters relating to musical performances.
Scope and Contents:
This collection was formed by W. Royal Stokes in the course of his professional work as a music and arts critic. It is composed primarily of publicity portraits of musical performers, both single acts and groups. The emphasis is on jazz musicians and singers, although many rock stars and groups, and other popular musical performers are included. Even a few classical musicians are represented. The pictures are primarily mass-produced black and white publicity photographs distributed to newspapers, writers, etc., by agents for entertainment personalities. Some prints were made from the original negatives, while others clearly were made from copy negatives after typography was stripped together with a print and re-photographed. However, there are some rarer original photographs included in the collection, such as personal color snapshots, higher quality prints by art photographers, etc. Nearly all the prints are unmounted, and are 8 x 10 inches or smaller in size. The bulk of the photographs date from circa 1970 to 2000, however, a number of the earlier photographs are included as well as slightly later examples.
Arrangement:
The collection is divided into nine series.
Series 1, Photographs of Musicians and Ensembles, circa 1970-2000; undated
Subseries 1.1, Musicians and Ensembles
Subseries 1.2, Recording Company Photographs
Subseries 1.3, Unidentified Musicians
Series 2, Photographs of Performances, 1987-2002; undated
Subseries 2.1, Music Festivals, 1987-2002; undated
Subseries 2.2, Concerts, Music Clubs and Other Venues, 1920s-1940s and circa 1980s-1990s; undated
Series 3, Formal and Informal Groups, circa 1980s-2000; undated
Series 4, Photographs of Musicians in Films, Radio, Television and Theater, 1940s-2000; undated
Series 5, Photographs of Subjects and Products related to Musicians and Music, 1970-2000; undated
Series 6, Photographs of Non-Musicians, circa 1980s-2000; undated
Series 7, Interviews with Musicians, 1970-2003
Series 8, Audiovisual Materials, 1970-2003
Subseries 8.1, Audio Recordings - Audiocassettes
Subseries 8.2, Audio Recordings-Audiotapes
Series 9, Posters, 1976-1990; undated
Biographical / Historical:
Born in Washington, D.C., W. Royal Stokes served in the Army and then embarked on an academic career, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, Tufts University, Brock University and the University of Colorado. He left the academic profession in 1969 and become a writer, broadcaster and lecturer, journalist, and critic and authority on jazz music. A follower of jazz since his teens in the 1940s, Stokes has written about music for such publications as Down Beat, Jazz Times, and the Washington Post, and hosted the public radio shows "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say . . ." and "Since Minton's". Today he is the editor of the quarterly Jazz Notes, and is the author of The Jazz Scene: An Informal History From New Orleans to 1990 and Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson.. He is also the author of Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Dr. Stokes lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of Ameican History:
Duke Ellington Collection, 1928-1988 (AC0301)
Herman Leonard Photoprints, 1948-1993
Frank Driggs Collection of Duke Ellington Photographic Reference Prints [copyprints], 1923-1972
Jazz Oral History Collection, 1988-1990
Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection, 1910s-1970s (mostly 1930s-1960s)
Jeffrey Kliman Photographs
Stephanie Myers Jazz Photographs, 1984-1987, 2005
Chico O'Farrill Papers
Paquito D'Rivera Papers, 1989-2000.
Louis Armstrong Music Manuscripts, undated
Tito Puente Papers, 1962-1965.
Audrey Wells "Women in Jazz Radio Series, 1981-1982
Mongo Santamaria Papers, 1965-2001
Ramsey Lewis Collection, 1950-2007
Earl Newman Collection of Monterey Jazz Festival Posters, 1963-2009
James Arkatov Collection of Jazz Photographs, 1995-2003
Francis Wolff Jazz Photoprints, 1953-1966
Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection, circa 1920s-2006
Jazz Oral History Program Collection, 1992-2009
Leslie Schinella Collection of Gene Krupa Materials
Provenance:
Donated by W. Royal Stokes to the Archives Center in 2001.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Topic:
Jazz musicians -- 1950-2000 -- United States Search this
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
