Marilyn Crispell papers, 1980-2021

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Series I: Papers



Box 1 Early Compositions, 1965

National Federation of Music Club's Certificate for Junior Composers and Judge's Rating Sheet, includes four compositions: "Piano Sonata I","Requiem and Kyrie", "Glory on High", "Le Ciel Est, Par Dessus le Toit"(with words by Paul Verlaine).


Box 1 For Trio/The Kitchen Concert, 1989 February

sheet music and poetry for "Failing", "Solstice", "Night Light Beach", "Alchemy", "For L.T.", "Ahmadu/Sierra Leone", "Three Poems" (for CT). Commissioned by Roulette with funds from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust


Box 1 Marilyn Crispell "Circles", 1991


Box 1 Santuerio, 1993


Box 1 Suite for Trio, 1991 October

Solstice, Not Wanting, Commodore, Rain, Movement Changable.


Box 1 NOW Orchestra, "Yin-Yang", 2004

Program, sheet music, conductors copy and description of program.


Box 1 Cy Twombly Dream House, 2006 May 26

CD in case (no extra desc) in plastic green file with 12 copies of Cy Twombly original art work for event.


Box 1 Original Compositions by Marilyn Crispell, 1988-2016

Works include: Demonstration Fragments and Composition for Improvisation, Ballad, America, Element Air...Leap, Homage, In Violet, Numus, Only Paradise, Opium Dream Eyes, Point in Time, Rythms Hung in Undrawn Sky, Rounds, Mars, Soft White Star that Beats, Gives Subtle Light, Song for Jean Lee, Song for Abdullah, Theme for Gary, Thomas, Woodstock 3/13/87, Piano t


Box 1 Marilyn Crispell "Luzerne Originals", 2009


Box 1 Reggie Workman Ensemble


Box 1 Reggie Workman Quartet at Visiones, 1988 April 21

description of performance


Box 1 "Middle Passage" by Anthony Davis, 1983

Handsigned Printed Sheet Music copy by Anthony Davis to Marilyn (on back)


Box 1 "Word Scores" by Jacques Demierre, 2003

Quartet Noir performance at Luzerne Festival


Box 1 Co-Stellar Pulsations by Robert Cogan,, Mirabilis II & Manfred Niehaus' "Concerto for Marilyn", Robert Cogan, 1991 November & 1992 March

Costellar Pulsations for two pianos,Mirabilis II piano, clarinet, sax, trumpet, Concerto for Marilyn (piano part)


Box 1 Buenos Aires Residency, Student Ensemble Pieces, 2016 November

Structures I-III, La distancia entre los pasos (Ramila Nebbia) at


Box 1 Miller Theatre NYC, 2006 October


Box 1 Soundscape Archival Recording Project, 2009 November 11


Box 1 Braxton Music "For Trio", Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, 2012

from "for Trio" from recording of "Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton"


Box 1 "Odyssey", "Ithaca","Phases of the Night" Trio: Berry and Paul, 2001

from CD Intakt, CD 070, 2001, Intakt CD 096, 2004 and Intakt CD 138, 2008



Box 2 Barry Guy, 1997

Sleeping Furiously (Three Haiku for Marilyn Crispell), "Strange Loops" (uses attached Cecil Taylor poems as text-poems), "Sleeping Furiously" and "Strange Loops" as recorded in "Three Pieces for Orchestra", "Three Meditations" (also using the included Cecil Taylor poems as text)


Box 2 Barry Guy's Big Band Music, 1998 2001

pieces include "Double Trouble II", "Inscape Tableaux", "Theoria", "Harmos"


Box 2 Gathering Together: Piano for Eight Hands, 1983 April

42 page, hand written musical score of Pauline Oliveros, for Kitchen Benefit NYC for performers: Ursula Oppens, Marilyn Crispell, BlueGene Tyranny, Debra Richards


Box 2 Gunhild Seim's "Elephant Wings", 2012

pieces include "Joni", "Honu", "Jambo", "Elefant i Romaret", "Eyes No See", "Morning Perspective", "Enough", "Manu", "Volcano Village", "Song for Meelie", "Set List"


Box 2 John Geggie/Geggie Project/Ambience Magnetique, 2008

pieces include "Across the Sky", "Canon", "Credo""...From Which", "I Wanted More", "Or Not", "Run Away Sheep", "View from the Bridge","Again", "What Not #3"


Box 2 Charles Alexander "The Air of June Sings", 2016 March 11

poetry pages for performance


Box 2 Mark Helias, 1977-2007

Pieces include "Kdreefda Molaina", "Kdreefda Solo Form", "Professor of AIr Science", "Subway", "Limbo", "The Harmonic Line", "Broken", "Story Line", "Trundle"


Box 2 "Shifting Grace" by Michele Rabbia, 2006

pieces include "Shifting Grace", "Soffio", Masque,Sequence, Liaisons,Figure


Box 2 Correspondence: Lloyd Peterson, 2004-2016


Box 2 Correspondence: Charlie Banacos, 1987-1997


Box 2 Email correspondences, 2008-2013

George Quasha and correspondences from various fans


Box 2 Christian Marclay Festival Whitney Museum (excerpts), 2010


Box 2 Tuning Score for the Nervous system, 4/18/18


Box 2 Apart


Box 2 Music Scores for Angelica Sanchez Project, 2018


Box 2 ICE, 2018


Box 2 Memoria for Pessa Malka


Box 2 Jazz Danmark Summer Session, 2019


Box 2 Revised & Re-written compositions, Original score "One World", 2020


Box 2 New tunes for Recording Session, 6/26/2021


Box 2 Correspondence with Robert Gibbons 2019-July 2021


Box 2 Correspondence with Robert Gibbons 2002-2018


Box 2 Marilyn Crispell, Bobby Skankel Quartet, 1996, June 19


Box 2 Jazz Lines, 1998 August 23-30

Linda Graedl


Box 2 Pianist by Mikhail Horowitz, 1995 April 22


Box 2 Letter from Gary Parker Chapin, 1993 September 12


Box 2 Marilyn Crispell list of Archives CDs Folder 1


Box 2 Marilyn Crispell list of Archives CDs Folder 2


Box 2 My Compositions on Recordings Info (Archives)



Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Early 1970s-1980s,


Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Early 1980s-1990s,


Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Late 1990s-2001


Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Mostly early newspaper articles


Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Early to 2004



Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

2003-2006


Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

ECM: 2004-2008


Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

Mostly 2006-2007


Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

2007-2008


Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

2009-2010



Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

January 2011-June 2013


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

Letters mostly 2013-2015


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

2017-2018


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

2018-2021


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

Record Reviews


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

Foreign Full Length Magazine articles



Box 6 4x6 Photo Book, 1981-2007

37 photographs, privately collected of artist and colleagues


Box 6 Art Portfolio Photo Book, 1985-2011


Box 6 Photograph of Anthony Braxton Quartet at Stonehenge 1985, 1985

Series II: Art and Posters



Box 7 Gradations of Light collaborative art/music exhibition by Jo Ganter, Marilyn Crispell, 2017 August 25- October 8

7 art works with instructions for musical interpretation solo & duet, CD included


Box 7 Green Suite I-III, "Three Meditations"

6 art works, three meditations description, green suites description. Performance direction for 2 Suites of Graphic Scores, Marilyn Crispell, Jo Ganter


Box 7 Marilyn Crispell Timucua Art White House (Poster), 2000 March 30

With smaller posters


Box 7 Trio Rabbia/Crispell/Courtois "Shifting Grace" (Poster), 2009 February 7


Box 7 Marilyn Crispell, Gerry Hemingway Open Music (Poster), 2013 May 7


Box 7 3 Jazz Masters: A World of Piano, Northampton Arts Center (Poster)


Box 7 Sons d'Hiver Festival de Musiques (Poster), 2011 January 21- February 12


Box 7 Chapel of our Lady Restoration Music Series 2005 (Poster), 2005 August 28


Box 7 Marilyn Crispell, Pianist at Centre Durenmatt (Poster), 2004 October 27



Mapcase 15-L-1 Colony Cafe Concert Poster, December 30

20 x 30


Mapcase 15-L-1 Cecil Taylor 18th Uzeste Musical (Poster), 1995

16 x 23 ½, Inscribed



Box 7 Ann Wilson collage from tree leaves



Box 12 Choc De L'Anne 1997 (art work), 1997

Jazzman award, Annette Peacock, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian

Series III: Books and Programs



Box 10 John Zorn "Arcana"


Box 10 Arrivals/Departures-New Horizons in Jazz, 2000


Box 10 Luzerne Festival Summer Program, 2013

Ton Koopman, Quartet Noir, Almut Rössler, die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker.


Box 10 Nathaniel Mackey "Callalou", 2003 summer


Box 10 Marilyn Crispell "Poems", 2000 November 2


Box 10 Fred Hersch "Good Things Happen Slowly, A Life In and Out of Jazz", 2020

Inscribed


Box 10 Norman Meehan "Time Will Tell conservations with Paul Bley", 2017


Box 10 Graham Lock "Forces In Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton", 2003


Box 10 Graham Lock: "Forces in Motion: Anthony Braxton and the Meta-reality of Creative Music", 1988



Box 11 Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) by John Cage, 2018


Box 11 Barrow River Arts Festival Program, 2015


Box 11 George Quasha's "Art Is...", 2015 May 17


Box 11 Acrostic Woodstock: Poems by Will Nixon, 2016


Box 11 Drawing Sound: An Exhibition and Musical Performance of Graphic Scores, 2015

Jo Ganter, Marilyn Crispell, Raymond MacDonald


Box 11 To Know Others, Various & Free, 2017 August 25 - October 15

Robbin Gibbons (signed 1st/1st)


Box 11 This Time, 2013

Robbin Gibbons (signed 1st/1st)


Box 11 Marilyn Crispell/L'Autre MC, 2011

chapters of book wrapped in papers


Box 11 Jefferson Hanson "Lyrical Eddies: poems after the music of marilyn crispell"


Box 11 Domenico Cipriano "November", 2005 March 29


Box 11 Llyod Peterson "Music and the Creative Spirit", 2015 December 2


Box 11 Garrison Fewell "Outside Music, Inside Voices", 2006


Box 11 Joe Morris "Perpetual Frontier", 2014



Box 12 Wayne Enstice, Janis Stockhouse "Jazz Women", 2012


Box 12 Steve Lake and Paul Griffiths"Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM", 2004


Box 12 Will Nixon "Marilyn Crispell", 2007

Poem

Series IV: Sound Recordings



Box 7 Trio Tapestry (LP)

Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi


Box 7 Trio Tapestry Garden of Expression (LP)

Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi



Box 8 Harlem in the Himalayas (CD)

Henry Grimes, M Crispell, Rubin Museum of Art production


Box 8 Ad Hoc Music (CD), 2010 September 24


Box 8 Piano Solo, Live im Loft fur den WDR (2 CDS), 2006 November 24

Marilyn Crispell, Hendrickson, Lotte Ankers, Anette Peacock, John Coltrane.


Box 8 Sound Grube 15, Blue Tomato (CD), 2003 December 1

Marilyn Crispell, Harrison Smith (sax), Eddie Prevost (drums)


Box 8 Sound Grube 15, Blue Tomato (CD), 2012 April 10

Marilyn Crispell.


Box 8 Wind Up Space (CD), 2012 April 10

Crispell Formanek Duo


Box 8 Chax Mix (CD), 2011 April 12

Marilyn Crispell, Ron Silliman, mixer:Thomas Gaudynski


Box 8 Jazz on 3 (2 CDs), 2010 September 15


Box 8 Jazz on 3 Breakfast (CD), 2012 November 2

Marilyn Crispel, Harrison Smith, Eddie Prevost, Café Otto London


Box 8 Video Clips from Berklee Concert (DV AVI FILES DVD Rom), 2013 June 12


Box 8 Soul Suitcase (CD)


Box 8 Sound Scape Recordings (6 CDs)

Artists include: Olatungi, EQ'd Dub, Marilyn Crispell WBAI Solo, marked #570, #569, #562, #563,#571, #572, #573 + Reels 1,2&3


Box 8 Animations for Gradations of Light (CD), 1980-1985

includes art cover by Jo Gantner


Box 8 Copy Disc 1 and Copy Disc 2 (2 CDs)

Marilyn Crispell, Joe Lovane, Paul Motion, Mark Holiday


Box 8 Live at the Round Tower (CD), 2006 October 21

Lotte Anker (tenor-soprano sax), Marilyn Crispell (piano), Marilyn Mazur (drums, percussion)


Box 8 Shimmers of Light (CD), 1998 July

Lovano Street Band


Box 8 Marilyn Olari Teppo in Temple Church (CD), 2011 May 20


Box 8 Crispell, Hauta-aho, Louhiriori live at Raahe, Finland (CD), 2007


Box 8 Laurel Masse Live (2 CDs), 2005


Box 8 Augmeneted Vignettes by Marilyn Crispell, Gary Checora (CD), 2004 February 25


Box 8 Lines of LIght: Jamaica Peerna Music (DVD), 2009 May

Crispell and Rothenbert


Box 8 Roulette TV (DVD), 2009

Crispell, Lotte Anker


Box 8 Anthony Braxton Quartet - (UK four) (DVD), 2007


Box 8 Marilyn Crispell Concert (DVD), 1984

Berklee College of Music


Box 8 A Tribute to Paul Motian (Marilyn Crispell) (DVD), 2008 February 12

Symphony Space, NYC


Box 8 Nathaniel Mackey and Marilyn Crispell Concert (DVD), 2013 March 23


Box 8 George Quasha's "Music Is..."volume 1 (DVD), 2013 March 28


Box 8 Veesooned Waterveins (J (DVD), 2007

Janikia Peerna, Marilyn Crispell


Box 8 Karakia (Prayer) Solo Concert (DVD), 2006

Marilyn Crispell (edited by Burrill Crohn)


Box 8 La Huit prèsente Marilyn Crispell, un film de Gilles Le Mao (DVD), 2000 October


Box 8 Marilyn Crispell and Doug James (DVD)


Box 8 Marilyn Crispell and Raymond MacDonald (DVD), 2008 December 13


Box 8 Solo@Colony Cafe (DVD), 2014 October 2


Box 8 Henry Grimes Trio (DVD), 2014 December 30

Henry Grimes, Marilyn Crispell, Newman Taylor Baker


Box 8 ABQ in Ljubljana'85, Coltrane (DVD), 2006 April 19



Box 9 ConcertOTO (CD)

Marily Crispell, Eddie Prevost, Harrison Smith, Matchless Recordings


Box 9 Odes and Meditations for Cecil Taylor by Barry Guy, Poetry Marilyn Crispell (CD)

Blue Shroud Band


Box 9 The Adornment of Time (CD)

Tyshawn Sorey and Marilyn Crispell


Box 9 How to Turn the Moon (CD)

Angelica Sanchez and Marilyn Crispell


Box 9 The Word for It Now (CD)

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra


Box 9 Parallel Moments Unbroken (CD)

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra


Box 9 Streams (CD)

Yuma Uesaka and Marilyn Crispell


Box 9 Trio Fascination (CD)

Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi


Box 9 Blue Horizon, Barry Guy @ 70 (CD)

Live at the Ad Libitum Festival 2017


Box 9 Portrait, Barry Guy (CD)


Box 9 Kleinert James Arts Center: Michelle and Marilyn (CD)


Box 9 Auspicious Healing (CD), 2006 September 17

Tisziji Munoz


Box 9 Sound Hierarchy (CD)

Ivo Perelman Quartet


Box 9 Session at Nevessa, Rough Mixes (CD)

Didier Petit Marilyn Crispell


Box 9 Dreamstruck (CD), 5/17/11

Harvey Sorgen, Joe Fonda, Marilyn Crispell


Box 9 Songs Along the Way (CD)

Raymond MacDonald and Marilyn Crispell


Box 9 Trio Tapestry (CD)

Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi


Box 9 Trio Tapestry Garden of Expression (CD)

Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi


Box 9 Trio Tapestry (CD)


Box 9 One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (CD), 8/18/19

Marilyn Crispell, David Rothenberg


Box 9 Affinities (CD)

Marilyn Crispell, Gerry Hemingway


Box 9 Table of Changes (CD)

Marilyn Crispell, Gerry Hemingway


Box 9 Natives and Aliens (CD)

Parker/Guy/Lytton and Marilyn Crispell


Box 9 Destiny (CD)

Marilyn Crispell, Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake


Box 9 Complicite (CD)

Paul Plimley, John Oswald, Marilyn Crispell, Cecil Taylor


Box 9 Portrait (CD)

Irene Schweizer


Box 9 Lugano, Quartet Noir (CD)

Urs Leimgruber, Marilyn Crispell, Joelle Leandre, Fritz Hauser


Box 9 Braxton/Crispell Live in London (CD)


Box 9 Grenseland (CD), 1993

Gunhild Seim, Marilyn Crispell, David Rothenberg


Box 9 Time Jungle (CD)

Gunhild Seim


Box 9 Dream Libretto (CD)

Marilyn Crispell, Tanya Kalmanovitch, Richard Teitelbaum


Box 9 Band on the Wall (CD)

Marilyn Crispell, Eddie Prevost