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MARIAN Mcpartland COLLECTION MARIAN McPARTLAND COLLECTION RUTH T. WATANABE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SIBLEY MUSIC LIBRARY EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Processed by Austin Richey and Gail E. Lowther; Finding aid by Gail E. Lowther (Fall 2018) 1 Joe Morello and Marian McPartland performing at the Hickory House, New York, NY (1950s). Photograph by William “PoPsie” Randolph, from Marian McPartland Collection, Box 26, Folder 4, Sleeve 5. Marian McPartland performing for Eastman students. Photograph by Louis Ouzer, from Louis Ouzer Archive (R1176-3A). 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Description of Collection . 5 Description of Series . 8 INVENTORY Series 1: Sheet Music Sub-series A: Compositions by Marian McPartland . 13 Sub-series B: Performance Scores and Library . 15 Series 2: Papers Sub-series A: Professional Papers . 17 Sub-series B: Correspondence. 34 Sub-series C: Research and Writing . 46 Sub-series D: Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz . 68 Sub-series E: Documents Separated from AV Materials . 81 Series 3: Publicity and Press Materials Sub-series A: Press Clippings . 88 Sub-series B: Concert Programs and Publicity . 100 Series 4: Association with Jimmy McPartland . 107 Series 5: Photographs Sub-series A: Photographs of Marian McPartland . 111 Sub-series B: Photographs of School Workshops and Projects . 134 Sub-series C: Photographs of Marian McPartland and Jimmy McPartland . 141 Sub-series D: Photographs of Jimmy McPartland . 149 3 Sub-series E: Photographs of Celebrities . 151 Sub-series F: Framed Photographs . 166 Series 6: Honors and Awards . 167 Series 7: Library . 175 Series 8: Audio-Visual Materials Sub-series A: 3” Reel-to-Reel Audio Tapes . 178 Sub-series B: 4” Reel-to-Reel Audio Tapes . 178 Sub-series C: 5” Reel-to-Reel Audio Tape . 178 Sub-series D: 7” Reel-to-Reel Audio Tape . 183 Sub-series E: 10” Reel-to-Reel Audio Tape . 233 Sub-series F: 7” phonograph discs . 273 Sub-series G: 8” phonograph discs . 273 Sub-series H: 10” phonograph discs . 274 Sub-series I: 12” phonograph discs . 275 Sub-series J: Cassette Tapes . 285 Sub-series K: Compact Discs . 287 Sub-series L: Film Reels . 292 Sub-series M: VHS Cassettes . 293 Sub-series N: U-Matic Cassette Tapes . 298 Series 9: Oversized Sub-series A: Oversized Papers. 298 Sub-series B: Oversized Publicity and Press Materials Sub-sub-series 1: Press Clippings. 303 4 Sub-sub-series 2: Concert Publicity . 307 Sub-sub-series 3: Pressbooks . 308 Sub-series C: Association with Jimmy McPartland . 310 Sub-series D: Oversized Photographs Sub-sub-series 1: Photographs of Marian McPartland . 311 Sub-sub-series 2: Framed Photographs . 313 Sub-series E: Oversized Honors and Awards . 314 5 DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION Shelf location: C4A, 1, 1 — 5, 2 Extent: 90 linear feet Biographical Sketch (Left) Photograph by David Workman (1950s), from Marian McPartland Collection, Box 27, Folder 7, Sleeve 12; (Center) Publicity photograph from New Orleans, LA (1978), from Marian McPartland Collection, Box 28, Folder 2, Sleeve 9; (Right) Photograph for album Marian McPartland Live at Maybeck Recital Hall (1991), from Marian McPartland Collection, Box 28, Folder 4, Sleeve 1. Ms. McPartland’s life and career have been amply described elsewhere. This brief sketch is provided for convenience and is intended to complement the particular materials that comprise this collection. Marian McPartland (née Margaret Marian Turner) was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, England, on March 20, 1918. She demonstrated early aptitude in music and, at the age of seventeen, earned a scholarship to the prestigious Guildhall School of Music in London to study classical piano. Her passion for American jazz, however, led her to leave Guildhall in 1938, before completing her degree, to tour with Billy Mayerl’s Claviers, a four-piano vaudeville act, under the stage name “Marian Page.” During World War II, while performing with the USO, Marian met Jimmy McPartland, an American cornetist and bandleader. After a brief courtship, the couple married in Aachen, Germany, on February 3, 1945. After the war, the McPartlands settled first in Chicago, where Marian joined Jimmy’s band and played his style of Dixieland jazz at clubs throughout the Midwest. In 1949, the couple moved to New York, and, soon after, Marian established her own trio. In 1952, the trio began regular appearances at the Hickory House, a Manhattan nightclub, where McPartland gained a reputation as a superb interpreter and forceful improviser. As her reputation grew, McPartland was offered numerous solo and trio engagements in the US and internationally as well as a five-album deal with Capital Records. After her residency at the Hickory House concluded in 1962, she was invited to join Benny Goodman’s septet for their 1963 tour. Over the next decade, she maintained an active performing schedule, which included frequent appearances at jazz festivals in Nice, Montreux, Antibes, Berlin, and Monterey, as well as at the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City and the Kansas City Women's Jazzfest. 6 In addition to her impressive performance and recording career, McPartland embarked on a number of other endeavors spanning jazz education, scholarship, and advocacy. She was a pioneer in jazz education, and, from 1955 on, initiated projects to introduce jazz to schoolchildren. These educational outreach efforts ultimately included several extended collaborations with public schools in Long Island, NY, and Washington, DC, during the 1960s-1970s, as well as many dozens of workshops, school concerts, and seminars. (The jazz education program for the Washington, DC, schools would become a model for similar endeavors around the country.) In 1986, she became the first woman to be named Jazz Educator of the Year by the National Association of Jazz Educators. In 1969, McPartland co-founded a private record label, Halcyon Records, with Sherman Fairchild and Hank O’Neal. The trio founded Halcyon as a vehicle for promoting lesser-known jazz artists who had been dropped from larger labels. Over its 10-years of production, Halcyon released a total of 18 albums, including several featuring McPartland herself. In 1978, McPartland launched Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, a weekly radio jazz program developed and produced by South Carolina Educational Radio and distributed nationally by National Public Radio. For more than 30 years, Piano Jazz provided a unique insider’s perspective of jazz and jazz improvisation as McPartland engaged her guests in conversation and music-making. The radio program received multiple awards, including the prestigious Peabody Award in 1984 and the ASCAP- Deems Taylor Award in 1991 as well as honors from the New York Festival and the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television. In the late 1970s, inspired by her participation in the Women’s Jazz Festival in Kansas City, McPartland began extensive research for a projected historical reference book about women in jazz. In 1979, she applied for and received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write the book and secured a contract with Oxford University Press; an additional fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation followed in 1980. Although McPartland completed dozens of interviews with women musicians for her book, the project did not materialize as initially envisioned. Instead, Oxford published a collection of essays and articles by McPartland under the title All in Good Time (1987; reissued in 2003). McPartland received numerous honors in recognition of her lifetime of contributions to jazz and jazz education. She was awarded several honorary doctorates, including one from the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music (2007). She was also named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master (2000) and received a Grammy Trustee’s Award for Lifetime Achievement (2004). In 2007, she was recognized as a Living Jazz Legend by the Kennedy Center and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. In 2010, McPartland was named a member of the Order of the British Empire. McPartland died on August 20, 2013, at the age of 95 at her home in Port Washington, NY. Provenance The Marian McPartland Collection was received by the Sibley Music Library in May 2014 from the Estate of Marian McPartland. The gift of the collection was facilitated by Ms. Donna Gourdol, step- granddaughter of Ms. McPartland. Scope and content note The collection comprises the personal and professional papers of Marian McPartland, including assorted documents as well as a substantial collection of photographs and audiovisual material. The 7 series of papers includes correspondence and various professional documents pertaining to McPartland’s international career as a performing musician and educator as well as materials from her historical research on women in jazz (including research notes and materials, transcripts of interviews, and drafts of published articles and essays) and publicity materials from the long-running radio show Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz. The collection also includes a finite collection of items pertaining to her husband, Jimmy McPartland, and his own notable career as a jazz musician and bandleader. The extent of audiovisual material is considerable and includes not only commercial and personal recordings of Marian McPartland and Jimmy McPartland but also records performances and jam sessions featuring many significant figures in jazz, such as Eubie Blake, Bix Beiderbecke, Art Tatum, and Mary Lou Williams. A significant portion of Halcyon Records’ albums are represented in the Collection, including masters, dubs, and outtakes for all of the label’s 18 albums. Restrictions on use There is no restriction on research access for study; however, the provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law and its revisions do attend use of the collection. The written consent of all copyright owners will be required in the event of any reproduction requests. Associations The Marian McPartland Collection is one of a growing body of collections at RTWSC that document the work and professional careers of prominent jazz artists; see, for example, the Rayburn Wright Collection and the Bob Brookmeyer Collection.
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