Guide to the W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews
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Guide to the W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews NMAH.AC.0766 Vanessa Broussard Simmons 2011 Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 2 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 3 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 3 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 4 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 6 Series 1: Photographs of Musicians and Ensembles, circa 1970-2000................... 6 Series 2: Photographs of Performances, 1987-2002; undated.............................. 15 Series 3: Formal and Informal Groups, circa; 1980s-2000; undated...................... 16 Series 4: Photographs of Musicians in Films, Radio, Television and Theater, 1940s-2000; undated.............................................................................................. 17 Series 5: Photographs of Subjects and Products Related to Musicians and Music, 1970-2000; undated............................................................................................... 18 Series 6: Photographs of Non-musicians, circa 1970-2000; undated.................... 19 Series 8: Audiovisual Materials, 1975-2005........................................................... 20 Series 9: Posters, 1976-1990; undated................................................................. 64 W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews NMAH.AC.0766 Collection Overview Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History Title: W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews Identifier: NMAH.AC.0766 Date: 1940s-2005 Creator: Sun Ra (Interviewee) Gaskin, Leonard, 1920- (Interviewee) Taylor, Billy (Interviewee) Stokes, W. Royal, Dr., 1930- (Collector) Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987 (Interviewee) Wells, Ronnie (Interviewee) Whiting, Margaret (Interviewee) Towers, Jack (Interviewee) Venuti, Joe, 1903-1978 (Interviewee) Pullen, Don, 1941- (Interviewee) Roney, Wallace (Interviewee) Pizzarelli, Bucky, 1926- (Interviewee) Pizzarelli, John, 1960- (Interviewee) Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004 (Interviewee) Shepp, Archie, 1937- (Interviewee) Sanders, Pharaoh (Interviewee) Grant, Felix, 1918-1993 (Interviewee) Scott, Jimmy (Interviewee) McPhail, Jimmy (Interviewee) McPartland, Marian (Interviewee) McFerrin, Bobby (Interviewee) Krall, Diana (Interviewee) O'Connell, Helen (Interviewee) Mulligan, Gerry (Interviewee) Metheny, Pat (Interviewee) McShann, Jay (Interviewee) Horn, Shirley, 1934- (Interviewee) Hinton, Milt, 1910-2000 (Interviewee) Hill, Andrew, 1937- (Interviewee) Hendricks, Jon, 1921- (Interviewee) Keane, Helen (Interviewee) Kaminsky, Max, 1908- (Interviewee) Jordan, Sheila, 1928- (Interviewee) Humes, Helen, 1913-1981 (Interviewee) Hampton, Lionel (Interviewee) Harris, Eddie, 1934- (Interviewee) Heath, Jimmy, 1926- (Interviewee) Frishberg, Dave (Interviewee) Ennis, Ethel (Interviewee) Farmer, Art, 1928- (Interviewee) Flanagan, Tommy, 1930- (Interviewee) Hampton, Slide (Interviewee) D'Rivera, Paquito, 1948- (Interviewee) Page 1 of 64 W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews NMAH.AC.0766 Daniels, Billy (Interviewee) Davison, Bill (Interviewee) Donegan, Dorothy, 1922- (Interviewee) Crouch, Stanley, 1945-2020 (Interviewee) Conyers, John, 1929- (Interviewee) Cruz, Celia, 1920- (Interviewee) Byard, Jaki (Interviewee) Brown, Ruth (Interviewee) Carter, Betty, 1930- (Interviewee) Byron, Don (Interviewee) Betts, Keter, 1928- (Interviewee) Bellson, Louis (Interviewee) Bowie, Lester, 1941- (Interviewee) Blakey, Art, 1919-1990 (Interviewee) Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 (Interviewee) Adderly, Nat, 1931- (Interviewee) Bailey, Benny, 1925- (Interviewee) Extent: 10 Cubic feet (39 boxes) Language: English . Summary: Publicity photographs of musicians and entertainers, mostly jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, but including many rock and even a few classical performers. The collection also contains tape recorded radio interviews conducted between 1970 and 2003. In addition there are posters relating to musical performances. Administrative Information Acquisition Information Donated by W. Royal Stokes to the Archives Center in 2001. Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of Ameican History Duke Ellington Collection, 1928-1988 (AC0301) Herman Leonard Photoprints, 1948-1993 Frank Driggs Collection of Duke Ellington Photographic Reference Prints [copyprints], 1923-1972 Jazz Oral History Collection, 1988-1990 Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection, 1910s-1970s (mostly 1930s-1960s) Jeffrey Kliman Photographs Stephanie Myers Jazz Photographs, 1984-1987, 2005 Chico O'Farrill Papers Paquito D'Rivera Papers, 1989-2000. Louis Armstrong Music Manuscripts, undated Tito Puente Papers, 1962-1965. Audrey Wells "Women in Jazz Radio Series, 1981-1982 Page 2 of 64 W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews NMAH.AC.0766 Mongo Santamaria Papers, 1965-2001 Ramsey Lewis Collection, 1950-2007 Earl Newman Collection of Monterey Jazz Festival Posters, 1963-2009 James Arkatov Collection of Jazz Photographs, 1995-2003 Francis Wolff Jazz Photoprints, 1953-1966 Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection, circa 1920s-2006 Jazz Oral History Program Collection, 1992-2009 Leslie Schinella Collection of Gene Krupa Materials Processing Information Processed by David Haberstich archivist, April 2002, Vanessa Broussard Simmons archivist, November 2011, Anne Jones, (volunteer), July 2012 and Ramona Williamson (volunteer), July 2012; supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist. Preferred Citation W. Royal Stokes Collection of Jazz Musicians' Photographs, ca. 1970-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Restrictions Collection is open for research. Conditions Governing Use Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Accruals Interview tapes, transcripts and additional photographs were donated by Mr. Stokes to the Archives Center in 2007 and 2008. Biographical / Historical Born in Washington, D.C., W. Royal Stokes served in the Army and then embarked on an academic career, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, Tufts University, Brock University and the University of Colorado. He left the academic profession in 1969 and become a writer, broadcaster and lecturer, journalist, and critic and authority on jazz music. A follower of jazz since his teens in the 1940s, Stokes has written about music for such publications as Down Beat, Jazz Times, and the Washington Post, and hosted the public radio shows "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say . ." and "Since Minton's". Today he is the editor of the quarterly Jazz Notes, and is the author of The Jazz Scene: An Informal History From New Orleans to 1990 and Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson.. He is also the author of Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Dr. Stokes lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Scope and Contents This collection was formed by W. Royal Stokes in the course of his professional work as a music and arts critic. It is composed primarily of publicity portraits of musical performers, both single acts and groups. The emphasis is on jazz musicians and singers, although many rock stars and groups, and other popular Page 3 of 64 W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews NMAH.AC.0766 musical performers are included. Even a few classical musicians are represented. The pictures are primarily mass-produced black and white publicity photographs distributed to newspapers, writers, etc., by agents for entertainment personalities. Some prints were made from the original negatives, while others clearly were made from copy negatives after typography was stripped together with a print and re-photographed. However, there are some rarer original photographs included in the collection, such as personal color snapshots, higher quality prints by art photographers, etc. Nearly all the prints are unmounted, and are 8 x 10 inches or smaller in size. The bulk of the photographs date from circa 1970 to 2000, however, a number of the earlier photographs are included as well as slightly later examples. Arrangement The collection is divided into nine series. Series 1, Photographs of Musicians and Ensembles, circa 1970-2000; undated Subseries 1.1, Musicians and Ensembles Subseries 1.2, Recording Company Photographs Subseries 1.3, Unidentified Musicians Series 2, Photographs of Performances, 1987-2002; undated Subseries 2.1, Music