Jazz
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
American Dance Band Music Collection
Barney Kessel Collection
Bob and Ruth Byler Collection
The collection contains hundreds of hours of video and audio of live jazz performances, and interviews with jazz musicians, that were recorded around the world by Bob and Ruth Byler. The majority of the materials were recorded between 1985 and 2011.
Bob Cowan Collection
Bob Foster Collection
Bob Foster was a Kansas City record collector. Recordings include radio programs, classical music performances, and recordings of church choirs, high school bands and choirs, and college bands and choirs in the Kansas City area.
Brian Thurn Collection
"Cactus" Charlie Menees Collection
Carleton Coon Collection
Carroll Lewis Collection
Clete Huske Collection
The Clete Huske Collection was a gift of Michael J. Fagras, who donated a selection of his personal record collection to the Marr Sound Archives in December 2014. As part of that donation are scrapbooks housed in LaBudde Special Collections containing clippings of a multitude of musical artists taken from various jazz and blues publications.
Dan Jaffe Collection
Dana Suesse Collection
Dave E. Dexter Jr. Collection
Don Tiff Collection
E. C. Boldridge Collection
The collection consists mostly of recordings of radio broadcast programming from Kansas City that specialized in the jazz genre.
Ed Dix Collection
Frank Driggs Jazz Oral History Collection
Frank Trumbauer Collection
Gary Shivers Collection
The audiovisual materials in this collection contain radio programs produced and recorded by Gary Shivers, including, “Jazz Scene,” “Gary Shivers Show,” and “Gary Shivers on Jazz.” The collection also holds recordings of interviews, music performances, and home recordings.
Gordon Spencer Collection
Harold Ashby Collection
Harry Trotman Collection
Helen Werr (Ellen White) Collection
The Helen Werr collection was anonymously donated to the Department of Special Collections in May 2017. It is dedicated to Werr’s career as a singer during the 1940s under the pseudonym, Ellen White. There are photos of a young Werr, as well as photos of her on tour in the 1940s. Additionally there are newspaper clippings, contracts, scripts from shows, a scrapbook of her performing career, and recordings.