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Albert J. "Budd" Johnson manuscript scores and other material.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 117
Overview:

Manuscript scores and related materials of composer and tenor saxophonist Albert J. "Budd" Johnson.

Classic Crates Collection

Collection Identifier: RECCO Spec Coll 101
Content Description: Classic Crates is a collection of classic vinyl records and related documentation that is built around the idea of HipHop "standards." Selection of titles for the collection is based on the assessment of some of Hiphop’s major producers and deejays (DJs), under the leadership of Hiphop Archive Fellow (2013) and producer 9th Wonder. Classic Crates refers to the range of recordings and musical genres that can be called the Hiphop Standards Book, in that they represent the definitive...

Fred Ho manuscript scores, performance programs, and other material, 1991-2011.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 142
Overview:

Manuscript scores and related materials of American composer and social activist Fred Wei-han Ho.

Lou Church and Jack Fields contracts for Blue Note (Philadelphia) performances by jazz musicians, and other materials, 1949, 1955-1957.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 119
Overview:

This collection consists of contracts between various jazz artists and club owners or producers supplying the terms of agreement for the artists' performance engagements. Artists represented include Cannonball Adderley, Louis Armstong, The Australian Jazz Quintet, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, The Modern Jazz Quartet and several others.

Randy Weston recordings and papers

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 159
Overview:

Consists of recordings, manuscript scores, and papers documenting the work of the composer and pianist, Randy Weston (1926-2018).

Rubén Blades recordings and papers

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 100
Overview:

Commercial and privately produced sound and audiovisual recordings; periodicals; books; promotional materials, photographs, posters, correspondence, professional and business documents, scripts, ephemera and realia documenting the career of Rubén Blades, musician, actor and political figure from Panama.

Tom Everett jazz scores, memorabilia, and other material, 1944-2011.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 135
Overview:

Scores and memorabilia documenting 40 years of jazz at Harvard.

William D. and Peggy Smith collection of Eubie Blake correspondence, printed sheet music, and other material, 1970-1977.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 105
Overview:

Materials by and about the American jazz pianist and composer Eubie Blake, including correspondence, articles, clippings, photographs, and sheet music, collected during the 1970's by William D. and Peggy Smith. In the letters Eubie Blake discusses his music, composing, and events of his career. The correspondence also documents the friendship between Eubie and Marion Blake and the Smiths.