Research Materials

Object Details

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8985e54ed-454b-4ba9-95db-04e65f1bfca6

Collection Creator

Garland, Ed

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971

Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941

Collection Collector

Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007

Collection Creator

Darensbourg, Joe, 1906-1985

Davison, Bill

Blake, Eubie (James Herbert), 1883-1983

Wilson, Buster

Collection Donor

Levin, Lucille

Collection Creator

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

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Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection

Sponsor

Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Date

undated

1914 - 2006

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Identifier

NMAH.AC.1222, Series 3

Type

Archival materials

Collection Citation

Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection, 1880-2010, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection Rights

Reproduction restricted due to copyright or trademark. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Scope and Content Note

Contains materials collected by Levin for the purpose of writing his many articles; festival, concert, CD, book and record reviews and his publication, Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. The materials consist mainly of articles and newspaper clippings, as well as personal handwritten notes and e-mail correspondence with other jazz historians. Book manuscripts and lecture notes are also found within this series. While the materials mostly relate to jazz and jazz musicians, there are some miscellaneous articles on such diverse subjects as model trains, radio programming, and the Bosendorfer Piano. The materials are arranged in chronological order.

Collection Restrictions

The collection is open for research. Only reference copies of audiovisual materials may be used.

Record ID

ebl-1562715276631-1562715280543-5