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Guide To The Herbert Zane Knauss Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Herbert Zane Knauss Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Herbert Zane Knauss served as the University of South Carolina's Director of Information Services and was a jazz enthusiast who combined his musical passion with local history by creating a documentary about South Carolina native Dizzy Gillespie titled Cheraw for Dizzy. The collection holds radio broadcasts Zane Knauss produced about jazz artists and the original soundtrack for his documentary film about Dizzy Gillespie.
Guide To The Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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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.
Guide To The William C. Banfield Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The William C. Banfield Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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William “Bill” Cedric Banfield is a professor and director of the Africana Studies/Music and Society initiative at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The collection contains his compositions, including songs and jazz works, but is especially strong in concert music, correspondence, writings, and flyers and programs documenting his career.
Guide To The Paul Eduard Miller Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Eduard Miller Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Paul Eduard Miller was a jazz critic and journalist who wrote from Down Beat and Esquire, and hosted a Chicago radio show called “This is Jazz”. The collection contains typescripts of his published and unpublished writings, radio scripts, playlists, photographs, sound recordings, and copies of his publications.
Guide To The Guido Sinclair Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Guido Sinclair Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Guido Sinclair was born Sinclair Greenwell, Jr. A jazz saxophonist, he performed with many well-known jazz and rhythm and blues artists. In the late 1970s, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, and later moved downstate to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The collection contains original compositions, programs, and interviews, and recordings of performances of his original compositions.
Guide To The Martin Williams Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Martin Williams Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Martin Williams was a music critic specializing in jazz and American popular culture and the collection includes published articles, unpublished manuscripts, files and correspondence, and music scores of jazz compositions. He wrote for major jazz periodicals, especially Down Beat, co-founded The Jazz Review and was the author of numerous books on jazz.