Small Collections on Jazz, circa 1950-2005

Series I: Materials

• Description: Copy of a photograph of the original Benny Goodman Quartet: Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, and Lionel Hampton

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Color photograph showing Benny Goodman standing next to a large sailfish. Photo verso: Grenada, W.I.

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Dates: December 1969
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Benny Goodman's fishing license issued by the State of Alaska

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Dates: June 1975
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Chan Parker open reel tape. Rockland Palace: Charlie Parker with strings. Unissued "Rocker." The following recordings appear that were first released in 1996: East of the Sun; Stardust; Easy to Love; Dancing in the Dark; Just Friends; What Is This Thing Called Love. Classics include Ornithology; Don't Blame Me; Everything Happens to Me

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Dates: September 26, 1952
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Chan Parker open reel tape: Cool Blues; 52nd Street Theme; This Time the Dream's On Me; Little Willie Leaps; Round Midnight; Move; The Street Beat; Out of Nowhere; Embraceble You; Cool Blues, Wahoo; Dizzy Atmosphere
  Dates: May 17, 1950
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Audiocassette and compact disc. Rehearsal of the record "New Faces" with Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Branford Marsalis (reeds), Kenny Kirkland (piano), Lonnie Plaxico (bass), and Robert Ameen (drums)

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Carmen McRae. Decca Records contract
  Dates: 1954
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Carmen McRae scores. Day by Day, arranged by Oliver Nelson (manuscript) and parts -- All the Things You Are, arranged by Bill Holman (manuscript) and parts

  Donor: Unknown, 2001
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Playbill and calendar

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Dates: 2005
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Lionel Hampton with President Ronald Reagan, CD, Nov. 1987 -- Lionel Hampton's 94th birthday celebration, photographs

  Donor: Beverly Lingle, 2010
  Dates: April 2002
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Invitation to and photograph of the Dedication Ball at the Student Union Ballroom of the University of Idaho, featuring Louis Armstrong and his six-piece instrumental group.

  Donor: Christian Center at the University of Idaho, 2002 Digital Links: 1. Invitation 2. Dedication Ball
  Dates: February 15, 1963
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Photographs of Shelly Manne (31 items)

  Donor: John Fairweather, 2005
  Container: Box 1
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Jazz Club Lionel Hampton framed image. The first panel of a wine list folio from the Jazz Club in Paris with an image of Hampton in color. Inscribed: to my great, great pal Oscar Cohen. Lionel Hampton

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Container: Box 2
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: 11 1/2 inch by 10 1/2 inch frame holding a letter from Ronald Reagan to Lionel Hampton in response to his Easter greeting; Signed "Ron"

  Donor: Robert M. Childs, 2014
  Dates: May 24, 1982
  Container: Box 2
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Benny Goodman's custom-made evening suit with dress shirt. Label inside reads: H. Huntsman & Sons (London), Benny Goodman

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Container: Box 3
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Gerry Mulligan's houndstooth jacket

  Donor: Russell H. Vansant, 2005
  Container: Box 4
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Benny Carter's African marimba/xylophone

  Donor: Virginia Wicks, 2004
  Container: Box 5
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Conga Drums

  This set of conga drums was used by Dizzy Gillespie at the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival and then gifted to J.C. Heard on May 4, 1987. ("Guernsey's Jazz Auction Catalog Addendum." Feb. 16, 2005, page 12. Jazz At Lincoln Center, New York). Purchased at the Guernsey auction by Russell H. Vansant and donated to the IJC, in 2005.
  Container: Box 6-7
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: A four foot long rhythm stick inscribed with the name on the haft: Dizzy Gillespie.

  This 'stick cymbal' was used by Dizzy Gillespie and then gifted to J.C. Heard after a concert in Detroit, Michigan, in 1968. ("Guernsey's Jazz Auction Catalog Addendum." Feb. 16, 2005, page 12. Jazz At Lincoln Center, New York). Purchased at the Guernsey auction by Russell H. Vansant and donated to the IJC, in 2005.
  Container: Object 9
  Location: Series I: Materials
• Description: Lionel Hampton performing at Kennesaw State University (17 photographs)

  Donor: Mimi Fittipaldi, 2023
  Dates: undated
  Container: Box 8
  Location: Series I: Materials