Genre: Jazz - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Description:: Reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, with performances by numerous Swing-Era bands including Artie Shaw, Count Basie, and many others. The principal focus of the collection, however, is Benny Goodman, with live performances, airchecks, and electrical transcriptions.
Content types:: Performed music
Formats:: Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, and Acetate open reel tape
Extent:: 20 boxes
Repository/Collector:: University of North Texas Music Library
Online finding aid:: View on findingaids.library.unt.edu

Description:: A very large amount of sheet music, both popular and classical, including a significant segment of choral and sacred works from when WOR employed an in-house radio orchestra.
Content types:: Notated music
Extent:: 720 linear feet
Repository/Collector:: University of North Texas Music Library
Online finding aid:: View on findingaids.library.unt.edu

Description:: The Don Kennedy papers contain writings, audio recordings, photographs, printed materials, and awards related to Kennedy's television and radio broadcasting career. The bulk of the materials relate to the production of the Big Band Jump radio shows between 1989 and 2013. These include scripts, cue sheets, newsletters, and broadcast masters of the weekly programs. The papers include some full-length interviews with musicians and other big band-era figures that were subsequently edited for broadcast. The collection also includes promotional and photographic materials from his work with television station WATL-TV, 1976-1978; radio stations WKLS FM, 1960-1970, and the Georgia Network, 1972-1982; as well as his time as children's television host "Officer Don," 1956-1969.
Content types:: Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:: Pressed LP disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:: 22 linear feet, 640 Optical discs, 300 Pressed LP discs
Repository/Collector:: Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Online finding aid:: View on digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu

Description:: Studio and live recording sessions for Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, produced for National Public Radio. Broadcast programs of same.
Content types:: Performed Music, Spoken Word, and Broadcast Programs
Formats:: Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:: approximately 750
Repository/Collector:: South Carolina Public Radio/SCETV

Description:: We have a massive collection of about 50,000 recordings on CD and vinyl, in addition to both digital and tape airchecks spanning several decades. We also have program guides, advertisements, and station produced publications.
Content types:: Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:: Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Photographic print, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, MiniDisc, Text document, Printed brochure, and Printed magazine
Extent:: 26,500 optical discs; 18,300 pressed LP discs; 2,500 pressed 7" 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:: WUVT-FM

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