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Weeksville Lost Jazz Shrines 1 Weeksville Lost Jazz Shrines Annotated Bibliography and Discography Primary Sources Interviews Note: Most of the artists listed below were interviewed over a period of two years (April, 2010 –October, 2011 through Weeksville’s Lost Jazz Shrine Project). Artists interviewed include: Brooklyn natives; longtime Brooklyn residents; or artists who performed frequently at some of Brooklyn's Lost Jazz Shrines and in some cases, continue to perform in Brooklyn. Abdullah, Ahmed. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 6 April 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 46 mins 36 sec. Barnes, Wade E. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 7 December 2010. Audio. No Transcription. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 51 min. 26 sec. Barron, Kenny. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins. 9 October 2010. Audio. No Transcription. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Braithwaite, “Fab 5” Freddie. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins and Jennifer Scott. 7 Oct 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 1 hr. 25 mins. 32 secs. Carroll, Alma. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 24 August 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 1 hr. 10 mins. 34 secs. Cheatham, Jo Ann. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 6 April 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 59 mins. 19 secs. Cumberpatch, Tulivu-Donna. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 14 July 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 43 mins. 56 secs. Gaskin, Leonard. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Maxine Gordon. 20 March 2007. Video. No Transcription. Property of Brooklyn Historical Society. Length: 1 hr. 32 mins. Group Follow-Up Meeting, Part I. Participants: Randy Weston, Ed Stoute, Sam Pinn, Reggie Workman, Jimmy Morton. Facilitated by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott. 7 July 2011. Audio. DVD. Transcription. Transcription date: October 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. © 2015 Weeksville Heritage Center 2 Group Follow-Up Meeting, Part II. Participants: Donna Cumberlatch, Jo Ann Cheatham, Harold Valle. Facilitated by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott. 8 July 2011. Audio. DVD.Transcription. Transcription date: October 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: XX mins. XX secs. Habersham-Bey, Richard “Dickie”. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins. 16 June 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2010. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 1 hr. 11 mins. 18 secs. Howard, Michael. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins. 13 July 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 51 mins 44 secs. Korah, Alex. In-person Conversation. 12 January 2009. No video or audio record of meeting. During the meeting, Korah gave paraphenalia to the Weeksville Heritage Center including photos, personal writings and biography. Recommended by Randy Weston. Long, Joe. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 12 April 2011. Audio. No Transcription. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 1 hr. 12 mins. 33 secs. Mabern, Harold and Larry Ridley. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 5 April 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 40 mins. 46 secs. Morton, Jimmy. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins and Jennifer Scott. 5 April 2010. Audio. Transcription. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 55 mins. 54 secs. Myers, Bob. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 6 April 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 58 mins. 40 secs. Pearse, Joysetta. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Annette Tomlin. 4 December 2006. Audio. Transcription. Transcription Date: January 2007. StoryCorps-Weeksville Heritage Center 2006. Length: 46 mins 43 secs. Pearse danced alongside her brothers in various venues in central Brooklyn including the Tip Top; Berry Brothers; Turners; Putnam Central; The Club Verona; The Blue Coronet; and The Baby Grand. For three generations, her family performed in clubs in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Her grandmother was a blues singer, who made an early blues record with Black Swan Records, in 1921. © 2015 Weeksville Heritage Center 3 Pinn, Sam. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins. 16 June 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 48 mins. 54 secs. Plummer, Viola. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 24 August 2010. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 31 mins. 56 secs. Rubin, Vanessa. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 28 January 2011. Audio. No Transcription. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 47 mins. 30 secs. Smith, Dorothy. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Mary Ann Brown and Richard Kelso. 10 November 1972. Audio Cassette. Transcription. Transcription Date: March 2006. Medgar Evers- Weeksville Society 1970s Oral History. Length: Smith’s father worked as a musician at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan when she was a teenager, probably in the 1910s. Weeksville Heritage Center has a Transcription but because of the poor cassette quality, there is no digitized audio version. Spaulding, James. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 23 August 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 32 mins. 09 secs. Stoute, Edwin. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins. 16 June 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 54 mins. 23 secs. St. Joan, Keisha. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 28 January 2010. Audio. No Transcription. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 34 mins. 21 secs. Valle, Harold. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 23 August 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 58 mins. 19 secs. Wali, Kwesi Mensah. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 23 August 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 35 mins. 50 secs. Wareham, Roger. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 24 August 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 35 mins. 08 secs. © 2015 Weeksville Heritage Center 4 Weston, Randy, Cheryl Weston (daughter) Jitsu Weisu, Maxine Gordon, Willard Jenkins, and Jennifer Scott. Oral History Interview. Video. 3 July 2008. Video. Transcription. Transcription Date: September 2008. Length: 31 mins. 49 secs. Weston and family, as well as Weisu, Jenkins and Gordon met at Weeksville Heritage Center as a preliminary meeting for Weeksville’s Jazz Shrines Project. Weston, Randy. “An Evening with Randy Weston.” Interviewed by Dr. Lewis Porter. Oral History Interview. Video. Property of Jazz At Lincoln Center. 28 February 2008. Length: 60 mins. Weston, Randy, Jitsu Weusi. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Maxine Gordon. 22 October 2008. Video. Audio. Transcription. Transcription Date: November 2008. Length: 52 mins. 44 sec. An interview conducted while visiting various sites in central Brooklyn important to Weston and his music. Sites visited: Weston’s childhood home at Albany and Bergen Streets; the Kingston Lounge; Weston’s father’s barber shop; Trio’s Restaurant, Weston’s father’s restaurant; Tony’s; Putnam Central; The East; The Elks; Slave No. 1 Theater; the Blue Coronet. Weusi, Jitu. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 6 April 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length: 1 hr. 37 mins. 37 secs. Workman, Reginald. Oral History Interview. Interviewed by Willard Jenkins, Jennifer Scott and Kaitlyn Greenidge. 8 October 2010. Audio. Transcription. Transcription date: April 2011. Weeksville Heritage Center Lost Jazz Shrines Project. Length:
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