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 Collection
Identifier: IJS-00352

John Hozack collection of audio recordings

Creator

Dates

  • 2005 - 2022

Scope and Contents

The John Hozack collection of audio recordings contains 7,071 compact discs featuring jazz concerts and broadcasts John Hozack downloaded from the Dime-A-Dozen website from 1995 through 2022. The discs primarily contain unreleased recordings made predominantly in the 1950s through the 1990s from television and radio broadcasts, soundboard recordings, and those made by audience members. The collection also includes 73 binders containing printed sheets from the Dime-A-Dozen website with discographical information about each recording, handwritten notes, as well as Hozack's indices to the collection, organized by genre and performer, respectively. The performers represented in the collection range widely, with a substantial number of recordings by Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Jim Hall, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Keith Jarrett, Lee Konitz, Charles Mingus, Modern Jazz Quartet, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, and McCoy Tyner.

Extent

9.6 Linear Feet (73 binders)

31.5 Cubic Feet (126 compact disc boxes)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for listening.

Conditions Governing Use

No recordings in the collection may be copied and are only available for listening. The collection may only be used at the Institute for research and educational purposes.

Language of Materials

English

Biographical / Historical

John Hozack was born in Oakland, California in 1932 and moved to Concord, California in 1962. He worked as a scientific and technical photographer and was employed by the U.S. Civil Service for 33 years. Hozack has collected jazz recordings throughout his life and has been a member of a jazz listening group in San Francisco for over 45 years.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged according to the order in which John Hozack downloaded files from the Dime-A-Dozen website. He gave each disc a sequential numerical ID, linking it to the binder page for that recording, which follows the same numbering system. All the discs and binders are arranged in consecutive order according to the numerical ID.

Title
Guide to the John Hozack collection of audio recordings
Author
Elizabeth Surles
Date
2023
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Part of the Institute of Jazz Studies Repository

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