Mark Tucker papers, 1939-2000, bulk 1980s

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Series I: Writings, 1985-2000


Subseries 1: Ellington, The Early Years



Box 1 Folder 1 Dissertation: The Early Years of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington


Box 1 Folder 2 Correspondence and Notes


Box 1 Folder 3 Correspondence and Notes


Box 1 Folder 4-6 Files



Box 2 Folder 1-4 Files


Box 2 Folder 5 Reviews and Correspondence


Box 2 Folder 6 Publicity


Box 2 Folder 7 Dust Jacket Photo of Ellington


Box 2 Folder 8 Photographs


Subseries 2: The Duke Ellington Reader



Box 3 Folder 1-4 Correspondence and Notes


Box 3 Folder 5 Permissions


Box 3 Folder 6 Corrections and Proofs



Box 4 Folder 1 Files


Box 4 Folder 2-5 Files



Box 5 Folder 1-4 Files


Box 5 Folder 5 Reviews and Correspondence


Subseries 3: Jazz From The Beginning



Box 6 Folder 1 Correspondence


Box 6 Folder 2 Photographs


Box 6 Folder 3 Photographs, Gavin Bushell, Mark Tucker


Box 6 Folder 4 Gavin Bushell / Storyville


Box 6 Folder 5 Interview Lists and Notes


Box 6 Folder 6 Duke Ellington Interview


Box 6 Folder 7 Jabbo Smith Interview


Box 6 Folder 8 Howard "Stretch" Johnson Interview


Box 6 Folder 9 Kenny Barron Interview


Box 6 Folder 10 Da Capo Reviews


Box 6 Folder 11 Nat Hentoff Review


Subseries 4: Other Writings


Writings: Armstrong -- East St. Louis



Box 7 Folder 1 Armstrong / Oliver Notes


Box 7 Folder 2 Louis Armstrong and King Oliver


Box 7 Folder 3 Cotton Club


Box 7 Folder 4 Cotton Club


Box 7 Folder 5 Duke Ellington: 58 Masterpieces


Box 7 Folder 6 Duke Ellington in Europe in the 1930s


Box 7 Folder 7 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo


Writings: Ellington -- Jukebox



Box 8 Folder 1 Ellington's Influence on World Music


Box 8 Folder 2 The Genesis of Black, Brown, and Beige


Box 8 Folder 3 Grove Dictionary: Jazz


Box 8 Folder 4 Grove Dictionary: Jazz


Box 8 Folder 5 Ives, Study in Cross Rhythms


Box 8 Folder 6 Jazz, A Reader's Companion


Box 8 Folder 7 Jungle Music


Box 8 Folder 8 Jukebox: Paul Dresher Interview


Writings: Oscar Peterson -- Transcription



Box 9 Folder 1 Oscar Peterson Citation


Box 9 Folder 2 Piano Rolls


Box 9 Folder 3 The Piano Style of Count Basie


Box 9 Folder 4 Reprise Liner Notes: Duke Ellington


Box 9 Folder 5 Retrospection: Ellington, Washington and the Music of Memory


Box 9 Folder 6 Slide Trombone, Lawrence Brown


Box 9 Folder 7 Symphonic Ellington


Box 9 Folder 8 Transcription in Jazz


Box 9 Folder 9 Misc. items and Appearances

Series II: Columbia, Teaching, Outreach



Box 10 Folder 1 Jazz Study Group, Columbia


Box 10 Folder 2 Jazz Study Group, Columbia, Jazz and Spirituality


Box 10 Folder 3 Duke Ellington, Columbia, Spring 1993, 1993


Box 10 Folder 4 Jazz Historiography and Criticism, Columbia, Fall 1993, 1993


Box 10 Folder 5 Duke Ellington, Harvard, Spring 1994, 1994


Box 10 Folder 6 Lincoln Center Jazz


Box 10 Folder 7 Norman Currie: Did Louis Armstrong "Go Commercial"?


Box 10 Folder 8 Haruko Yoshizawa: Phrasing Techniques of Wynton Kelly in a recorded performance of "Autumn Leaves"

Series III: Transcriptions


Subseries 1: Ellington Transcriptions and Parts



Box 11 Folder 1 Notes on Ellington Compositions


Box 11 Folder 2 Ellington Transcription Project


Box 11 Folder 3 Transcriptions: Bash


Box 11 Folder 4 Transcriptions: Black and Tan Fantasy


Box 11 Folder 5 Transcriptions: Black, Brown, and Beige (Dance Band), Maurice Peress


Box 11 Folder 6 Transcriptions: Bouncing Bouyancy


Box 11 Folder 7 Transcriptions: Braggin' In Brass


Box 11 Folder 8 Transcriptions: Creole Rhapsody


Box 11 Folder 9 Transcriptions: East St. Louis Toodle-O


Box 11 Folder 10 Transcriptions: Fantazm


Box 11 Folder 11 Transcriptions: Gold Digger Stomp


Box 11 Folder 12 Transcriptions: Grievin'


Box 11 Folder 13 Transcriptions: Harlem (A Tone Parallel)


Box 11 Folder 14 Transcriptions: Harlem Air Shaft


Box 11 Folder 15 Transcriptions: How You Sound


Box 11 Folder 16 Transcriptions: Jungle Triangle


Box 11 Folder 17 Transcriptions: Ko-Ko


Box 11 Folder 18 Transcriptions: Lay-By


Box 11 Folder 19 Transcriptions: Little Posey


Box 11 Folder 20 Transcriptions: Old Man Blues


Box 11 Folder 21 Transcriptions: Portrait of Bert Williams


Box 11 Folder 22 Transcriptions: Pussy Willow


Box 11 Folder 23 Transcriptions: Reconversion


Box 11 Folder 24 Transcriptions: Reminiscing In Tempo


Box 11 Folder 25 Transcriptions: Salute to Morgan State


Box 11 Folder 26 Transcriptions: The Sargeant Was Shy


Box 11 Folder 27 Transcriptions: Schwiphtiey


Box 11 Folder 28 Transcriptions: Slap-Happy


Box 11 Folder 29 Transcriptions: Slappin' 7th Ave


Box 11 Folder 30 Transcriptions: A Subtle Lament


Box 11 Folder 31 Transcriptions: Tootin' Through the Roof


Box 11 Folder 32 Transcriptions: Volupte


Box 11 Folder 33 Transcriptions: Warm Valley



Box 12 Folder 1 Transcriptions: Ellington Piano Music


Box 12 Folder 2 Transcriptions: Ellington Early Scores


Box 12 Folder 3 Ellington and the South


Box 12 Folder 4 Black Theaters


Box 12 Folder 5 Chocolate Kiddies


Box 12 Folder 6 Cotton Club


Box 12 Folder 7 Strayhorn / Van De Leur


Box 12 Folder 8 Duke Ellington Music Society (DEMS) Newsletters (1986-1989, incomplete)


Box 12 Folder 9 Duke Ellington Centennial 1999


Box 12 Folder 10 Duke Ellington Centennial 1999


Box 12 Folder 11 Bubber Miley / Roger Pryor Dodge


Box 12 Folder 12 Directory of Duke Ellington's Recordings / Jerry Valburn


Box 12 Folder 13 Duke Ellington on Compact Disk / Jerry Valburn


Subseries 2: William Grant Still Arrangements



Box 13 Folder 1 Chicago Blues


Box 13 Folder 2 The Florida Blues


Box 13 Folder 3 Frisco Jazz Band Blues


Box 13 Folder 4 From Beale Street To Broadway


Box 13 Folder 5 I Never Had The Blues (Until I Left Old Dixieland)


Box 13 Folder 6 I'm Looking All Around For A Vampire


Box 13 Folder 7 The Jazz Me Blues


Box 13 Folder 8 Kissing Daddy


Box 13 Folder 9 Ole Miss Rag


Box 13 Folder 10 Saxophone Blues


Box 13 Folder 11 The Slow Drag Blues


Box 13 Folder 12 The Sphinx


Box 13 Folder 13 Suez, Oriental Novelty


Box 13 Folder 14 Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)


Box 13 Folder 15 That Thing Called Love


Box 13 Folder 16 Whistling Blues


Subseries 3: Will Vodery Files and Arrangements



Box 14 Folder 1 Vodery Correspondence, Various


Box 14 Folder 2 Vodery Correspondence, with Mike Snell


Box 14 Folder 3 After All


Box 14 Folder 4 All Mixed Up


Box 14 Folder 5 Ballin' The Jack


Box 14 Folder 6 Buzz Mirandy


Box 14 Folder 7 Cold Turkey


Box 14 Folder 8 Dancing An American Rag


Box 14 Folder 9 Down And Out Blues


Box 14 Folder 10 Feelin' Blues


Box 14 Folder 11 How Come You Do Me Like You Do?


Box 14 Folder 12 Hurry Back Home


Box 14 Folder 13 I Never Miss The Sunshine


Box 14 Folder 14 If I Stay Away Too Long From Carolina


Box 14 Folder 15 I'm Goin' South


Box 14 Folder 16 Let's Toddle


Box 14 Folder 17 Mama, Mama, Mama


Box 14 Folder 18 My Daddy's Dreamtime Lullaby


Box 14 Folder 19 Over The Alpine Mountains


Box 14 Folder 20 Piping Rock


Box 14 Folder 21 Strut, Miss Lizzie


Box 14 Folder 22 Tom Tom


Box 14 Folder 23 Valse de Ma Coeur


Subseries 4: Transcriptions & Original Compositions



Box 15 Folder 1 Transcriptions Misc. Files


Box 15 Folder 2 Autumn Leaves


Box 15 Folder 3 Bugle Call Rag, Arr. Mundy


Box 15 Folder 4 Caprice Rag, Arr. Hyman


Box 15 Folder 5 Don't Be That Way, Arr. Sampson


Box 15 Folder 6 Fats Waller File, Dale Miller


Box 15 Folder 7 I Want To Be Happy, Arr. Mundy


Box 15 Folder 8 King Porter Stomp, Arr. Jones


Box 15 Folder 9 Organ Grinder Swing, Arr. Leaman


Box 15 Folder 10 Rosetta, Arr. Henderson


Box 15 Folder 11 Some Day Sweetheart, Arr. Henderson


Box 15 Folder 12 Sometimes I'm Happy, Arr. Henderson


Box 15 Folder 13 Summertime, Arr. Evans


Box 15 Folder 14 Swanee, Arr. Sy Oliver


Box 15 Folder 15 Sweet and Lovely, Arr. Henderson


Box 15 Folder 16 Tickle-Toe, Arr. Wilber


Box 15 Folder 17 Berlin, Irving, Say It Isn't So, Fox Trot, Parts


Box 15 Folder 18 Fanzetti, Carlos, Summer Solstice, To Jon Faddis, Score


Box 15 Folder 19 Harrigan File


Box 15 Folder 20 Moore, Carmen, Concerto For Jazz Violin and Orchestra, Score


Box 15 Folder 21 Pettis, Jack, Bugle Call Rag, Parts



Box 16 Folder 1 Blue Monday, (135th Street) George Gershwin, Will Vodery, Score photocopy


Box 16 Folder 2 Blue Monday, (135th Street) George Gershwin, Will Vodery, Score photocopy


Box 16 Folder 3 New World A Comin' Duke Ellington, Two Piano Version, Maurice Peress Transcription


Box 16 Folder 4 Misc. oversize transcriptions

Series IV: Sheet Music


Box 16 Aggravation Rag, George L. Cobb


Box 16 Bye Lo, Ray Perkins


Box 16 Dengozo, Ernesto Nazareth


Box 16 Chatterbox Rag, George Botsford


Box 16 The Desert Song, Sigmund Romberg


Box 16 Down Home Rag, Wilber C. S. Sweatman


Box 16 Grandfather's Clock, Arr. Manoloff


Box 16 Happy Days In Dixie, Kerry Mills


Box 16 Hawaiian Butterfly, Baskette & Santly


Box 16 Honeymoon Lane, Jerome Kern


Box 16 I'm Trying So Hard To Forget You, Charles K. Harris


Box 16 I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You, Charles K. Harris


Box 16 The Jolly Jungle Boys, Bert A. Williams


Box 16 The Junk Man Rag, C. Luckyth Roberts


Box 16 Old Folks Rag, Wilbur C. Sweatman


Box 16 Silver Threads Among The Gold, H. P. Danks


Box 16 Way Down In Iowa, George W. Meyer


Box 16 That Wonderful Mother Of Mine, Walter Goodwin


Box 16 When Loris Smiles On Me, C. W. Cadman


Box 16 When My Baby Smiles At Me, Bill Munro


Box 16 Whistling Rufus, Kery Mills


Box 16 The Whistler And His Dog, Arthur Pryor


Box 16 The Wondrous Telephone, Thomas P. Westendorf, photofcopy


Box 16 Other Miscelaneous Sheet Music

Series V: Books, Articles, Liner Notes


Box 16 Duke Ellington: The Reprise Studio Recordings


Box 16 Mark Tucker Grammy Award Photograph



Box 17 Ellington The Early Years


Box 17 The Duke Ellington Reader


Box 17 Jazz From The Beginning


Box 17 Singers and Soloists of the Swing Bands


Box 17 Storyville 132


Box 17 The Genesis of Black, Brown and Beige


Box 17 In Search of Will Vodery


Box 17 Editor's Introduction: New Perspectives on Thelonious Monk


Box 17 Count Basie and the piano that swings the band


Box 17 Reviews: Musicology and the New Jazz Studies


Box 17 Behind the Beat; Jazz Criticism by Mark Tucker


Box 17 Duke Ellington and New Orleans

Series VI: Audio Tapes


Subseries I: Interviews (General), 1965, 1983-1990



Box 18 Mrs. Ann Allen, 10-4-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Maurice Banks, 9-29-83, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Art Baron, 12-18-86, 2 audiocassettes


Box 18 Mercer Cook, 5-31-84, 2 audiocassettes


Box 18 Helen Dance, 1-9-87, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Bessie Dudley, 3-22-85, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Toby Hardwick Interview with Felix Grant, 1964 April 25 (?), 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Johnny Hodges, 1-25-65?, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Revella Hughes, 12-12-84, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Jimmy McPhail, 1983, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Irving Mills, Interview with John Hasse, 2-2-84, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 June Norton, 3 audiocassettes


Box 18 Mitchell Parish, 12-1-84, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Jabbo Smith, 2-4-87, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Gunther Schuller, 3-15-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Clark Terry, Jimmy Hamilton, A Bell, Phil Schaap, 1988 November 14, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Jerry Valburn, 10-9-86, 2 audiocassettes


Jerry Valburn, 3-19-1987, 2 audiocassettes


Box 18 Jerry Valburn 1940, 1940?, 2 audiocassettes


Box 18 Chris Washburne, Fall 1990, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Bernice Wiggins, 9-6-83, 1 audiocassettes


Box 18 Sam Wooding, 1 audiocassettes


Subseries II: Garvin Bushell Interviews, 1985-1986



Box 19 1920s-1960s, 3 audiocassettes


Box 19 Garvin Bushell, 4/9-10/85, 3 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 1, Las Vegas, 7-5-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 2A, Early 1920s, Ethel Waters, 7-6-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 2B, Mamie Smith, Hawk Miley, 7-6-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 3A, Early 1920s, 7-8-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 3B, Early 1920s, 7-8-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 4A, 1921-22, 7-9-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 4B, 1921-22, 7-9-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 5A, 1922-23, 7-10-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 5B, 1922-23, 7-10-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 6A, Wooding Era, 7-12-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 6B, Wooding Era, 7-12-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 19 Tape 6C, Wooding Era, 7-14-86, 1 audiocassettes



Box 20 Tape 7, 1927-28, 7-15-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 8A, 1927-1933, 7-16-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 8B, 1927-1933, 7-16-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 9A, Springfield, 7-18-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 9B, Springfield, 7-19-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 10A, Early 1930s-36, 7-19-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 10A, Early 1936-37, 7-20-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 11, Calloway, 7-22-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 12A, late 30s, 7-24-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 12B, late 30s, early 40s, 7-24-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 13A, 1940s, 7-25-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 13B, 1940s, 7-25-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 14A, 1940s, early 50s, 7-26-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 14B, 1940s, early 50s, 7-26-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 15, Misc. 20s, Spring, 50s, 7-29-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 16A, 1957-60, 7-30-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 16B, 1957-60, 7-30-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 20 Tape 16C, 1957-60, 7-30-86, 1 audiocassettes



Box 21 Tape 17A, Fess Williams, Bunk Johnson, De Paris, 7-31-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 17B, 1959-64, 7-31-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 18A, Africa, 60s, P.R., 8-1-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 18B, 60s, P.R., 8-1-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 19A, Review, Ohio, 1920s, 8-2-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 19B, Review, 1920s, 1930s, 8-2-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 20, Photo ids, 8-4-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 21A, Photo ids, 8-6-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 21B, Review, Ohio, 1920s, 1930s, 8-6-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 22, Savoy, Review, 1930s-1950s, 8-7-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 23A, Africa revisited, 8-12-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 23B, Africa, P.R., photo ids, 8-12-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 24A, Coltrane, P.R. personal, 8-13-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 24B, personal, L.V., 8-13-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 25A, Early years, 1920s review, 8-14-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 25B, Early years, 1920s review, 8-14-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 26, Review 1940s, 1950s, L.V., 8-15-86, 1 audiocassettes


Box 21 Tape 27, Wrap-up, 8-16-86, 1 audiocassettes



Box 22 Tape [no number] With Coltrane, 1 audiocassettes


Subseries III: Ellington Tapes, 1939-1990


Box 22 Ellington, Jack Cullen Interview, Vancouver, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington, Willis Conover Interview, Afro-Bossa Piano Summations, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington Interview, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington Is Forever, 1985 February 11, 3 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington Sweet Adeline, 1999 July 7, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington is Forever w/ Adelaide Hall [SIDE A], 2/14/1985


Box 22 God's Trombones [SIDE B], 1986


Box 22 Ellington Sweden 1939, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington Valburn 1940, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington Smithsonian 1940, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington Brooks Kerr 1984, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington Brooks Kerr 1987 [SIDE A], 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 Ellington rarities 29, 1964-1965


Box 22 Ellington Dean's Day 1990 Immigration Blues, 1 audiocassettes


Box 22 [untitled Ellington tape], 1 audiocassettes

Sticky note on tape states that it was found with the Ellington transcripts.


Subseries IV: Duke Ellington Music Society Tapes



Box 23 Azure CA-2, May 1984, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-5, 1986, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-6, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-8, 1989, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-10, 1990, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-14, 1991, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-15, 1992, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-17, 1996, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-18, 1994, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-19, 1995, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-20, 1996, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-21, 1997, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-22, 1997, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-23, 1998, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-24, 1998, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-25, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Azure CA-28, 1979, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Duke At The Zanzibar, 1991, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Eagle's Ballroom, Kenosha, 1992, 2 audiocassettes


Box 23 Some New Year broadcasts from the fifties, 1995, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Surprise, 1990, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Danish broadcasts 41 and 42, 1990?, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 Danish broadcasts 42 and 43, 1990?, 1 audiocassettes


Box 23 From the Danish Broadcasts for Mark Tucker, 1 audiocassettes


Subseries V: Other Misc. Tapes and Notes, undated, 1997-1999



Box 24 On The Road With Duke Ellington, Bell Telephone Hour, 1 open reel audiotapes

Commercial


Box 24 Armstrong Tape, 1 audiocassettes


Box 24 Armstrong Tape, 1 audiocassettes


Box 24 T. Ladnier, Keppard, et al., 1 audiocassettes


Box 24 Oliver, 1 audiocassettes


Box 24 Jazz Study Group, "Jazz and Poetry", October, 1997, 1 audiocassettes


Box 24 Jazz Study Group, "Jazz and Africa", March 6-7, 1999, 1 audiocassettes


Box 24 Wynton Marsalis: Blood on the Fields, 2 audiocassettes

Commercial