DescriptionThis is an essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell written by Peter Pullman, a jazz scholar and author of Wail: The Life of Bud Powell (Brooklyn: Bop Changes, 2012).
Date Created2022
Subject(s)Jazz musicians, Jazz, Bop (Music), Powell, Bud, Paudras, Francis
DescriptionSister Rosetta Tharpe sings and plays guitar on This Little Light of Mine at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. At 3:28, Ray Charles and the Raelettes perform "I'm Goin' Back to Jesus" and "I...
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes clippings about Count Basie and photographs of Count Basie as a band leader, the Count Basie Orchestra, and many performers and others associated with Count Basie.
Date Created1930-1979
Subject(s)Jazz--History and criticism, African American musicians, Big bands, African American male singers, African American comedians, Awards, African American women singers, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Count Basie Orchestra
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 file includes loose scrapbook pages collated with unrelated materials when the Institute of Jazz Studies acquired the Count Basie family papers and artifacts. Pages include clippings, greeting...
Date Created1933-1970
Subject(s)Jazz--History and criticism, African American musicians, Big bands, African American dancers, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Basie, Catherine, Basie, Diane, Count Basie Orchestra
DescriptionThis album contains a program book and photographs from the Count Basie Orchestra tour of Japan in May and June 1963, including their attendance at a professional baseball game.
DescriptionThis scrapbook contains a photograph of Catherine Basie and newspaper clippings, the text of a speech, and correspondence related to her being honored as Woman of the Year by the Queens County Council...
Date Created1962
Subject(s)Awards, Civic leaders, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Basie, Catherine, United Civic Council of Queens County (Queens, New York, N.Y.), Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc.
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes ephemera and photographs of the Basie family, Count Basie Orchestra, and other performers. Some photos are inscribed to Count and Catherine Basie.
Date Created1940-1979
Subject(s)Jazz--History and criticism, African American musicians, Big bands, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Count Basie Orchestra, Basie, Diane, Basie, Catherine, Rinkeydinks
