Sound Recordings, Music Inn, Newport Jazz Festival and Miscellaneous Tapes, 1951 - 1955, 1958, undated

Thirty-nine tapes of symposia at Music Inn capture the ideas, music, and in some instances, performances by such figures as Dave Brubeck, Leonard Bernstein, John Lee Hooker, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Henry Cowell, Mahalia Jackson, Tony Scott, Billy Taylor, Randy Weston, Rex Stewart, Michael Olitungi and Candido, Pete Seeger, Langston Hughes, S.I. Hayakawa, Gunther Schuller, Sammy Price, Oscar Pettiford, Pete Johnson, Geoffrey Holder, and Don Redman, among others. Among the topics discussed are spirituals and gospel, the blues, Afro-Cuban jazz, calypso, Trinidadian and Haitian music, modern jazz, boogie woogie, camp hollers, and voodoo. Fifteen of the tapes were reformatted as compact discs by George Schuller, co-producer of the 2007 documentary Music Inn, and are available for listening by researchers. An additional six tapes were recorded at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.