Jazz

Scope and Contents: This collection includes interviews, correspondence, and recorded performances related to the life and career of clarinetist Perry Robinson. The collection materials formed the basis of research for Robinson's autobiography The Traveler, co-written by Florence Wetzel. The collection contains fifty-four cassette recordings of interviews conducted by Florence Wetzel between February 16, 1997 and December 27, 2001. The interview subjects include Perry Robinson,...

Scope and Contents: The Peter F. O’Brien papers contain materials from 1924-2015, with most of the material dating from the 1970s to 2015. The collection includes records of O’Brien’s work with Mary Lou Williams, first as a friend and supporter, then manager, and finally executive director of the Mary Lou Williams Foundation. It includes correspondence between the two starting from his first letter to her in 1964 to her death in 1981. There are business papers created during his work on her behalf prior to...