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| Series 2. Photographs, 1940s-1995 | |||||||||||||
| Consists primarily of photographs of Ken Crawford and Glenda Abdoo with various jazz performers. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged by subject. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/7 | Photographs of Ken Crawford and Glenda Abdoo, 1940s | ||||||||||||
| 3 photographic prints : 8 x 10 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford in automobile driver's seat | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford with sister Dee Dee's boyfriend and dog | |||||||||||||
| Glenda Abdoo with her first husband and and unidentified man and woman | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/8 | Photographs of Ken Crawford and Glenda Abdoo, 1960s-1995 | ||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford, 1960s | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 3.5 x 5 inches ; color | |||||||||||||
| Sign for "Digging the Sounds" at the Record Club with Ken Crawford, circa 1965 | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 3.5 x 5 inches ; color | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford's cat, A.T. (All That) Jazz, sitting next to speaker, 1960s | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 3.5 x 5 inches ; color | |||||||||||||
| A. T. Jazz lying next to turntable, 1960s | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 3.5 x 5 inches ; color | |||||||||||||
| Glenda Abdoo with unidentified man, undated | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 5.25 x 7.25 inches ; color | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford with Dick Rachelson and unidentified man, undated | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 4 x 6 inches ; color | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford at Howard's room, Toronto, 1995-04-29 | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 4 x 6 inches ; color | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/9 | Photo souvenirs from Bill Green's casino and terrace gardens, Pittsburgh, 1940s | ||||||||||||
| 3 photographic prints : 5 x 7 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford with sister Dee Dee and 4 unidentified men and women | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford with sister Dee Dee's boyfriend and 2 unidentified women | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford with unidentified woman | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/10 | Photo souvenirs from Vogue Terrace, 1940s | ||||||||||||
| 3 photographic prints : 5 x 7 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford with unidentified man and and 2 unidentified women | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford with unidentified woman | |||||||||||||
| Ken Crawford with unidentified woman | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/11 | Photographs of musicians, undated | ||||||||||||
| Glen Gray | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 8 x 10 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Woody Herman | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 7 x 8 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Pee Wee Hunt | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 8 x 10 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Marian McPartland | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 8 x 10 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Tony Parenti | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 8 x 10 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Artie Shaw | |||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 7 x 8.5 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/12 | Photographs of Duke Ellington with Ken Crawford and other persons, undated | ||||||||||||
| 3 photographic prints : 8 x 10 inches ; color | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/13 | Photographs of bands, undated | ||||||||||||
| 2 photographic prints : 5 x 7 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Benny Goodman [orchestra] | |||||||||||||
| Piccadilly Players and Singers | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/14 | Photographs of Jack Teagarden Sextet and the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra performing together at the Bali Kea club, Brentwood, Pennsylvania, 1954-12-12 | ||||||||||||
| 10 photographic prints : 8 x 10 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| "On Monday December 12 the Dorsey crew was heading to a Tuesday date for two
concerts in Aliquippa, a suburb northwest of Pittsburgh. While passing through
Brentwood Borough, just south of Pittsburgh Tommy spotted a sign in front of
the Bali Key [sic] Night Club promoting Jack Teagarden and his band. Stopping
the bus, Tommy and the entire band poured into the club. Spotted by Jack, Tommy
made some short remarks in which he pays the ultimate tribute to Teagarden:
'I've been copying him since 1928 and never came close.' As the Teagarden band
concluded, Tommy ordered the band's music stands and instruments brought in and
the Dorsey band made an appearance, which Tommy led but but he didn't play
trombone in deference to Jack." Robert Stockdale. The Dorsey Brothers: That's It!, 300. Musicians present at the event include Jack Teagarden (tb), Ray Bauduc (d), Tommy Turk (tb), Johnny Costa (p), Kass Malone (sb), Lee Castle (tp), Buddy Rich (d), Bob Carter (sb), Fred Greenleaf (tp), Harry Pierce, Harry Bosh, Tommy Dorsey (tb), Kenny Davern (cl), and Jimmy Dorsey (sax). The Teagarden band members are dressed in white. Also present in the photographs are Ken Crawford and Glenda Abdoo. See also article in Pittsburgh Press Roto Magazine. |
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/15 | Four unidentified children sitting on sofa, undated | ||||||||||||
| 1 photographic print : 2.75 x 3.75 inches ; black and white | |||||||||||||
| Series 3. Miscellany, 1931-1977 | |||||||||||||
| Includes Billie Holiday material originally kept with the Glenda Abdoo--Jack Millar correspondence. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/16 | "Lady Day Sang the Blues" article by William Dufty | ||||||||||||
| Copy and proofs for a reprint of William Dufty's article "Lady Day Sang the Blues," originally written on the day of Billie Holiday's death, July 17, 1959. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/17 | Billie Holiday discography, compiled circa 1968 | ||||||||||||
| Apparently compiled by Jack Millar for Brian Rust's Jazz Records discography, and sent to Glenda Abdoo in correspondence. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/18 | Index of Plaza/ARC recordings listed in Brian Rust's American Dance Band Discography, 1917-1942; compiled by John and Ross Wilby | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/19 | Magazines and pamphlets | ||||||||||||
| RCA Radiotron Radio Log, 1931 | |||||||||||||
| His Master's Voice, vol. III, no. 7, 1943-07 | |||||||||||||
| The Capitol News from Hollywood, vol. 5, no. 3, 1947-03 | |||||||||||||
| Music Views, 1956-03 | |||||||||||||
| Storyville 59, 1975-06--1976-07 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/1 | Down Beat, vol. 4, no. 8, 1937-08 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/2 | The Pittsburgh Press Roto Magazine, 1955-01-02 | ||||||||||||
| Contains article describing the Jack Teagarden--Tommy Dorsey jam session from December 12, 1954. See photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/3 | "New life for U.S. jazz: young innovators share boom with old hands" photo essay by Eliot Elisofon, from Life magazine, 1955-01-17 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/4 | The Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh's Family Magazine, 1965-08-15 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/20 | Newspaper clippings | ||||||||||||
| "Billie Holiday dies here at 44; jazz singer had wide influence," New York Times, 1959-07-18 | |||||||||||||
| "3,000 at funeral of Billie Holiday," New York Times, 1959-07-22 | |||||||||||||
| "Can the Saints improve upon perfection?," The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, 1965-09-08 | |||||||||||||
| "Whiteman, King of Jazz, dies at 76," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1967-12-30 | |||||||||||||
| "Rocking at the cradle of New York jazz," Los Angeles Times, 1971-11-28 | |||||||||||||
| Want ad for record catalogs placed by collector Tim Brooks, Collectors News, 1977-07 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 1/21 | Ephemera, 1940, 1958, and undated | ||||||||||||