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Richard 'Dick' Wang Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Richard 'Dick' Wang Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Richard Wang was a musician, historian, and educator specializing in jazz. The collection consists of a series of arrangements by Mary Lou Williams, a jazz pianist, arranger, and composer, and an interview he conducted with Charles Suber, a jazz critic, educator, journalist, and Down Beat columnist.
Guide To The Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Melba Liston Collection primarily documents her careers as arranger, composer, and educator rather than her accomplishments as a trombonist. It contains lead sheets to her own and other people’s compositions and manuscript scores of many of her arrangements for Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Mary Lou Williams, among others. One extensive series contains numerous arrangements for Randy Weston, and her late computer scores for him are also present.