Gallacher, Ken

Scope and Contents: This collection contains materials related to the life and music of Dick Cary. It includes music manuscripts, photographs, cassette and open reel tapes, correspondence, personal and professional papers, press clippings, scrapbooks, awards, and ephemera. Forty-two of the seventy-six boxes are music manuscripts of original scores and arrangements by Cary between 1950 and 1994. The majority are unpublished. This collection also contains 599 audio cassettes and 418 open reel tapes dating...

Scope and Contents: The bulk of this collection contains correspondence between Scottish journalist Ken Gallacher and various jazz musicians, including Sir Charles Thompson, Pee Wee Russell, Ralph Sutton, Bud Freeman, Peanuts Hucko, Kenny Davern, Dick Sudhalter, Billy Butterfield, Keith Ingman, Bob Haggart, and Yank Lawson. The correspondence includes 159 letters and postcards dated 1959 through 2001. The collection also includes letters Gallacher received from readers of his jazz newspaper column, as well as,...