Guide to the Earl Newman Collection of Monterey Jazz Festival Posters
NMAH.AC.1207 Vanessa Broussard-Simmons and Camille Bethune-Brown
2017
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 ...... 1 Arrangement...... 2 Scope and Contents...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 2 Container Listing ...... 3 Earl Newman Collection of Monterey Jazz Festival Posters NMAH.AC.1207
Collection Overview
Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Title: Earl Newman Collection of Monterey Jazz Festival Posters
Identifier: NMAH.AC.1207
Date: 1963-2009
Extent: 0.6 Cubic feet (12 folders)
Creator: Newman, Earl
Language: English
Summary: Collection contains sixty-two posters commemorating the Monterey Jazz Festival, created, designed, and signed by Earl Newman.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information The collection was donated to the Archives Center by Earl Newman, 1992 and 2010.
Processing Information Processed by Vanessa Broussard Simmons and Camille Bethune-Brown, 2015.
Preferred Citation Earl Newman Collection of Monterey Jazz Festival Posters, 1963-2009, 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.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a set of sixty-two posters designed and created by Earl Newman to publicize the Monterey Jazz Festival. The prints are numbered and signed by Mr. Newman and feature Ray Charles, BB King, Etta James, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and others. They are arranged
Page 1 of 6 Earl Newman Collection of Monterey Jazz Festival Posters NMAH.AC.1207 in chronological order by date. Folders one through eleven contain the prints. Advertising and the cloth- covered portfolio to hold the poster collection are in folder twelve.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into one series.
Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Subjects: Art and music Jazz Jazz musicians -- United States Music -- 20th century
Types of Materials: Posters -- 1950-2000 Screen prints
Names: Monterey Jazz Festival
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Container Listing
Map-folder 1 Joe Gordan , 1963
Map-folder 1 Beat Man , 1964
Map-folder 1 Trumpet, front view, 1965
Map-folder 1 Flute, Checkers, 1966
Map-folder 1 Trumpet, Checkers, 1967
Map-folder 2 Sax Man , 1968
Map-folder 2 Clarinet , 1969
Map-folder 2 Duke Ellington, 1970
Map-folder 2 14th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, 1971
Map-folder 2 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) , 1971
Map-folder 2 Bass Player, 1972
Map-folder 2 Monterey Chair, horn , 1972
Map-folder 2 Charlie Parker, 1973
Map-folder 3 Sarah Vaughan, 1974
Map-folder 3 Trumpet Call, 1975
Map-folder 3 Rainbow, Olympia Brass Band, 1976
Map-folder 3 Rainbow, Satchmo (Louis Armstrong), 1976
Map-folder 3 Satyr, Sax, 1977
Map-folder 4 Mardi Grass, 1977
Map-folder 4 Dizzy Gillespie's Horn on Chair, 1978
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Map-folder 4 Diz , 1978
Map-folder 4 Woody Herman and Dizzy Gillespie, 1979
Map-folder 4 Flute Player, 1979
Map-folder 4 Lionel Hampton, 1980
Map-folder 4 Sarah Vaughan, 1980
Map-folder 5 Lionel Hampton and Sarah Vaughn, 1980
Map-folder 5 Cal Tjader, 1981
Map-folder 5 Flashy Dancer, 1981
Map-folder 5 Cal Tjader and Tito Puente, 1981
Map-folder 5 25th Anniversary Monterey Jazz Festival, sax, 1982
Map-folder 5 Gerry Mulligan, 1982
Map-folder 6 Beach Scene, 1983
Map-folder 6 Floating Instruments, 1984
Map-folder 6 Checkers, Joe Williams, and Friend, 1985
Map-folder 6 Flamingo Trio, 1986
Map-folder 6 Keyboard Trio, 1986
Map-folder 6 30th Anniversary Monterey Jazz Festival, chair, 1987
Map-folder 7 B. B. King and Ray Charles, 1987
Map-folder 7 30th Anniversary Monterey Jazz Festival, Jimmy Lyons, 1987
Map-folder 7 Benny Carter, 1988
Map-folder 7 Dizzy Gillespie, 1989
Map-folder 7 John Lee Hooker, 1990
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Map-folder 7 The Faces of Jazz, 1990
Map-folder 8 Sax, Trumpet and Keyboard, 1991
Map-folder 8 Jazz Greats, 1992
Map-folder 8 35th Anniversary Monterey Jazz Festival, Jimmy Lyons, 1992
Map-folder 8 Dizzy Gillespie, 1993
Map-folder 8 Joe Williams, 1993
Map-folder 9 Night Scene, 1994
Map-folder 9 Cool Katz, 1995
Map-folder 9 Sea-Jam Blues, 1996
Map-folder 9 40th Annual Combo, 1997
Map-folder 9 Beach Scene, 1998
Map-folder 9 Duke Ellington, 1999
Map-folder 10 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong), 2000
Map-folder 10 John Coltrane and Miles Davis, 2001
Map-folder 10 Women of the Blues, 2002
Map-folder 10 Buddy Guy, 2004
Map-folder 10 Couple on a Keyboard, 2005
Map-folder 11 David Brubeck, 2006
Map-folder 11 Sax Man Checkers, 2007
Map-folder 11 Sax Man, 2007
Map-folder 11 Man with Sax, 2008
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Map-folder 11 The Flame of Music, 2009
Box 1, Folder 12 Original folder enclosure
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