Basie, Count, 1904-1984

Scope and Contents: The Count Basie family papers and artifacts comprise the extant papers and personal belongings of the Basie family, including Catherine, Diane, and Count Basie. The collection contains personal papers, music, photographic prints and negatives, business records, artwork, and audio and moving image recordings, as well as artifacts. The majority of items in the collection are from the 20th century, particularly the time period between the mid-1950s to the early 1980s.Most...

Scope and Contents: This collection contains 291 open reel audio recordings. The recordings consist of mostly Chicago-area live performances (1952-1958). Performers include Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Woody Herman, Arnett Cobb, Milt Buckner, Louis Jordan, Stan Kenton, Billy Taylor, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Johnny Pate, Donald Shirley, and Horace Henderson. There are also recordings of the Birdland All-Stars from 1955 and 1957, featuring Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie and his orchestra, Erroll Garner, and Bud...

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This collection contains five film reels and sixty-one audio reels of the 1979 film Last of the Blue Devils directed by Bruce Ricker. The audio recordings include interviews and performances from a 1974 musical gathering at the Mutual Musicians Foundation and a concert by the Count Basie Orchestra at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

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This collection is made up of 261 cassette tapes and 258 open reel recordings related to Teddy Reig's career as a producer. Significant portions of this collection are recordings by Count Basie, Stan Getz, and Dizzy Gillespie. This collection also contains audio interviews and autobiographical recordings with Reig.