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Mark Tucker papers, 1939-2000, bulk 1980s
31 linear feetMusical scores, correspondence, sheet music, audio tapes of interviews with jazz musicians, and other materials from Tucker, jazz pianist and scholar.
Juma Sultan papers, 1960s-1990s
20 linear feetThe Juma Sultan papers includes a large collection of performances from the loft era in New York City, a significant but under-documented period of jazz history. The recordings collection of circa 430 items, spanning the period from 1965-1975 (on open reel and cassette) contains unique, unreleased concert recordings, with the exception of a small amount of the collection included in the box set of Aboriginal Music Society recordings, Father of Origin (Eremite records, 2011). The recordings document not only the music of Sultan's own groups, such as the Aboriginal Music Society, but also a wide variety of recordings of other bands at Studio We, at other loft spaces in Lower Manhattan (e.g., Studio Rivbea, Artist House, the Ladies Fort, and Ali's Alley), as well as in Woodstock.
Subseries I.2: Festivals
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- Sultan was heavily involved in organzing the New York Musicians Organization jazz festivals in the
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Sultan was heavily involved in organzing the New York Musicians Organization jazz festivals in the early 1970s. This subseries includes extensive documentation of the planning and execution of the festivals, including correspondence, contracts, publicity, schedules, and other documents.
Subseries I.4: Publications
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- rare and ephemeral ican-American periodicals, a wide range of jazz and Black flyers and pamphlets, and
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This subseries contains a variety of flyers, pamphlets, publications that Sultan gathered in the 1970s in the course of his work as a musician and community organizer in New York. It includes a some rare and ephemeral ican-American periodicals, a wide range of jazz and Black flyers and pamphlets, and other materials.
Bob Fass Recordings and Papers, 1935-2011, bulk 1963-1991
200 linear feetThe Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City's WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.
Subseries VI.1: Individual correspondence and subject files, 1941-2008, bulk circa 1960s-1990s
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- as musical performances including the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals. Finally, the subseries
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Subseries VI.1 contains letters from and printed ephemera related to individuals who appeared as guests on Radio Unnameable or were otherwise significant figures in the counterculture movements with which Bob Fass was associated. Many, including Richard Elman, Abbie Hoffman, and Paul Krassner, were also Fass's personal friends. (Manuscripts by Elman, Krassner, and Gerd Stern, among others, are located in Subseries VI.3.) There are also slides and a small number of photographs documenting protests against the Vietnam War, the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, and nuclear armaments, as well as musical performances including the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals. Finally, the subseries contains subject files containing mostly printed ephemera related to Fass's political and artistic affiliations and interests. These include the Youth International Party (Yippies), various political assassination and conspiracy theories, Manhattan tenant and squatter organizing efforts, and the Greenwich Village folk music scene.