Naxos Music Library Database
Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services.
Acquired through the Dewey Donnell Fund, the Susan & Ruth Sharp Fund, the Belva Kibler Memorial Fund, the Hattie Clark Rosenbaum Fund, and the Hirschman Fund.
The collection consists of a database of the sound recordings in the Naxos record label catalog including all of the recordings on the Amadis, Marco Polo, Middle Kingdom, Naxos Audiobooks, Naxos Instrumental, Naxos International, Naxos Jazz, Naxos World, White Cloud, and Yellow River Chinese labels that are currently available in the online Naxos Music Library. The Naxos labels cover the full breadth of classical music throughout the ages, international jazz recordings, and world music. The contents of the collection are the equivalent of 6,115 albums consisting of 6,764 CDs, and the database will be updated continuously with future recordings issued by Naxos. The collection provides unlimited access to the entire Naxos Music Library database including 10,000 recordings in addition to those listed here. Stanford users will be able to use the recordings as data files for analysis and critical research as well as for listening and study.
Archive of Recorded Sound
Naxos Music Library Database
Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services.
Acquired through the Dewey Donnell Fund, the Susan & Ruth Sharp Fund, the Belva Kibler Memorial Fund, the Hattie Clark Rosenbaum Fund, and the Hirschman Fund.
The collection consists of a database of the sound recordings in the Naxos record label catalog including all of the recordings on the Amadis, Marco Polo, Middle Kingdom, Naxos Audiobooks, Naxos Instrumental, Naxos International, Naxos Jazz, Naxos World, White Cloud, and Yellow River Chinese labels that are currently available in the online Naxos Music Library. The Naxos labels cover the full breadth of classical music throughout the ages, international jazz recordings, and world music. The contents of the collection are the equivalent of 6,115 albums consisting of 6,764 CDs, and the database will be updated continuously with future recordings issued by Naxos. The collection provides unlimited access to the entire Naxos Music Library database including 10,000 recordings in addition to those listed here. Stanford users will be able to use the recordings as data files for analysis and critical research as well as for listening and study.
Archive of Recorded Sound
Naxos Music Library Database
Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services.
Acquired through the Dewey Donnell Fund, the Susan & Ruth Sharp Fund, the Belva Kibler Memorial Fund, the Hattie Clark Rosenbaum Fund, and the Hirschman Fund.
The collection consists of a database of the sound recordings in the Naxos record label catalog including all of the recordings on the Amadis, Marco Polo, Middle Kingdom, Naxos Audiobooks, Naxos Instrumental, Naxos International, Naxos Jazz, Naxos World, White Cloud, and Yellow River Chinese labels that are currently available in the online Naxos Music Library. The Naxos labels cover the full breadth of classical music throughout the ages, international jazz recordings, and world music. The contents of the collection are the equivalent of 6,115 albums consisting of 6,764 CDs, and the database will be updated continuously with future recordings issued by Naxos. The collection provides unlimited access to the entire Naxos Music Library database including 10,000 recordings in addition to those listed here. Stanford users will be able to use the recordings as data files for analysis and critical research as well as for listening and study.
Jam Handy Organization Collection
Gift of Rick Prelinger
The Jam Handy Organization produced training, promotional, industrial, and commercial sound recordings and films including many for the automobile industry following World War II. The collection consists of seventy (70) linear feet of magnetic and optical sound recordings on 35mm film documenting a wide range corporate activity from the 1940s through the early 1960s. The films include subjects and sound effects such as the Corvette, NASCAR racing, Alcoa, Chevrolet trucks, steel mills, a mimeograph, an electric can opener, fire alarms, rifles firing, and other similar sound effects.
Alan Farley Interview Collection
Gift of Alan Farley
Alan Farley’s weekly radio broadcast series, “Book Talk,” on KALW features interviews with various authors, musicians, and entertainment industry professionals. This gift adds the programs from 2006 to his collection which begins in 1996. Tony Kushner, Gay Talese, John Updike, John Dean, and David Suzuki, are among the fifty people interviewed.
Donald Day Collection
Gift of Donald Day
The collection is comprised of 2,362 sound recordings on 78 rpm discs and 47 radio transcription disc recordings primarily consisting of popular and country and western music performances ranging from the 1920s to 1950s. The performances on the 78 rpm discs cover a wide range of popular American culture including such performers as Roy Acuff, Gene Autry, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Hank Snow, Jimmy Rodgers, Mel Blanc, Victor Borge, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, the Weavers, and Bill Haley among many others. The radio transcription discs are primarily on the Armed Forces Radio Service label and include performances by Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Crooks and Marion Anderson, Fred Waring, George Szell conducting the New York Philharmonic, the Tuskegee Institute Choir, Risë Stevens, Fred Waring, and others.
Luryier Diamond Collection
Gift of Luryier Diamond
The Luryier Diamond Collection contains 1850 reel-to-reel tapes of broadcast and live performances of classical music and opera dating from the 1930s through the 1990s that are unavailable as published recordings. Performances of the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and the Teatro la Fenice are among the organizations found in the Collection which includes many unusual and rarely performed operas. All of the most important opera singers from the golden age of opera are represented in this collection resulting from a life-long interest in the world's greatest music and operas.
Monterey Jazz Festival Collection
Gift of the Monterey Jazz Festival
This donation adds archival sound recordings and print materials from the 50th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival of 2007 and miscellaneous retrospective materials dating back to 1958 to expand the Festival’s existing collection. The sound and video performances include appearances by Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Kenny Burrell, Ernestine Anderson, Terence Blanchard, and Diana Krall. The festival also premiered two new works: Monterey Moods by Gerald Wilson and Requiem for Katrina by Terence Blanchard. In addition to the archival materials, the gift includes six (6) new recordings on the Monterey Jazz Festival Records label and copies of the commemorative book, The Art of Jazz: Monterey Jazz Festival/50 Years by Keith and Kent Zimmerman.
William Carter Collection
Gift of William Carter.
The collection documents West Coast traditional jazz performances on unique recordings from the 1950s and early 1960s. It consists of one hundred eighty-eight (188) open reel tapes, two hundred eight (208) CD, and seventy-one (71) DVD recordings and dubbings of radio broadcast performances by Earl Hines, Kid Ory, Teddy Buckner, and others, at Club Hangover in San Francisco; Ted Heath, Johnny Dankworth, Kenny Baker, and others on the BBC ; the Al White Orchestra and Joe Marcellino at Sabella’s on KNBC; Kurt Edelhagen on Radio Baden-Baden; as well as Jack Teagarden, Muggsy Spanier, George Shearing, and others on KCBS. In addition to musical performances there are four (4) cassette recordings of Turk Murphy interviewing pianist, Sid Le Protti.
Jim Cullum, Jr. Collection
Gift of Jim Cullum, Jr.
The Happy Jazz Band was started in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio where they established a jazz club, The Landing. Jim Cullum, Jr. continued the band after his father and changed the name of the group to simply, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The band is one of the foremost groups playing traditional Dixieland and early jazz and has a regular program distributed on public radio. This collection consists of 1130 reel-to-reel tapes of the Happy Jazz Band and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and covers over 20 years of the band’s performances. In addition to performances by the Cullum bands, the collection contains performances by other noteworthy traditional jazz performers including Jack Teagarden, Baby Dodds, Garner Clark, and lesser known, but important jazz musicians from Texas. The collection adds immeasurably to the Archives’ resources in the area of traditional jazz performance.
San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection
Gift of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation
The collection comprehensively covers the career of Turk Murphy and was assembled primarily by Jim Goggin and other members of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. Similar sub-collections of materials about other traditional jazz musicians were added to this core collection containing items related to Murphy, Lu Watters, and Murphy’s side men, such as William Miskell and Bob Helm, some of whom also had their own bands. The collection includes over 550 manuscript jazz arrangements (scores and parts) for the Turk Murphy band, musical arrangements by Lu Watters, and related groups; original transcription discs of unique sound and video recordings by Turk Murphy, Lu Watters, Kid Ory, and other musicians and bands; 218 loose leaf notebooks of materials compiled by Jim Goggin documenting the careers of Turk Murphy, Burt Bales, Clancy Hayes, Bob Scobey and similar jazz musicians; thousands of photographs documenting the career of Turk Murphy and other West Coast traditional jazz musicians; correspondence and business records of Murphy and his jazz club, Earthquake McGoon’s; and numerous boxes of ephemera, posters, and realia relating to Earthquake McGoon’s and Turk Murphy’s performances there. In total the collection consists of about 300 linear feet of materials comprised of 155 linear feet of archival materials and 145 linear feet of sound recordings.
Jam Handy Organization Collection
Gift of Rick Prelinger
The Jam Handy Organization produced training, promotional, industrial, and commercial sound recordings and films including many for the automobile industry following World War II. The collection consists of seventy (70) linear feet of magnetic and optical sound recordings on 35mm film documenting a wide range corporate activity from the 1940s through the early 1960s. The films include subjects and sound effects such as the Corvette, NASCAR racing, Alcoa, Chevrolet trucks, steel mills, a mimeograph, an electric can opener, fire alarms, rifles firing, and other similar sound effects.
Alan Farley Interview Collection
Gift of Alan Farley
Alan Farley’s weekly radio broadcast series, “Book Talk,” on KALW features interviews with various authors, musicians, and entertainment industry professionals. This gift adds the programs from 2006 to his collection which begins in 1996. Tony Kushner, Gay Talese, John Updike, John Dean, and David Suzuki, are among the fifty people interviewed.
Donald Day Collection
Gift of Donald Day
The collection is comprised of 2,362 sound recordings on 78 rpm discs and 47 radio transcription disc recordings primarily consisting of popular and country and western music performances ranging from the 1920s to 1950s. The performances on the 78 rpm discs cover a wide range of popular American culture including such performers as Roy Acuff, Gene Autry, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Hank Snow, Jimmy Rodgers, Mel Blanc, Victor Borge, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, the Weavers, and Bill Haley among many others. The radio transcription discs are primarily on the Armed Forces Radio Service label and include performances by Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Crooks and Marion Anderson, Fred Waring, George Szell conducting the New York Philharmonic, the Tuskegee Institute Choir, Risë Stevens, Fred Waring, and others.
Luryier Diamond Collection
Gift of Luryier Diamond
The Luryier Diamond Collection contains 1850 reel-to-reel tapes of broadcast and live performances of classical music and opera dating from the 1930s through the 1990s that are unavailable as published recordings. Performances of the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and the Teatro la Fenice are among the organizations found in the Collection which includes many unusual and rarely performed operas. All of the most important opera singers from the golden age of opera are represented in this collection resulting from a life-long interest in the world's greatest music and operas.
Monterey Jazz Festival Collection
Gift of the Monterey Jazz Festival
This donation adds archival sound recordings and print materials from the 50th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival of 2007 and miscellaneous retrospective materials dating back to 1958 to expand the Festival’s existing collection. The sound and video performances include appearances by Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Kenny Burrell, Ernestine Anderson, Terence Blanchard, and Diana Krall. The festival also premiered two new works: Monterey Moods by Gerald Wilson and Requiem for Katrina by Terence Blanchard. In addition to the archival materials, the gift includes six (6) new recordings on the Monterey Jazz Festival Records label and copies of the commemorative book, The Art of Jazz: Monterey Jazz Festival/50 Years by Keith and Kent Zimmerman.
William Carter Collection
Gift of William Carter.
The collection documents West Coast traditional jazz performances on unique recordings from the 1950s and early 1960s. It consists of one hundred eighty-eight (188) open reel tapes, two hundred eight (208) CD, and seventy-one (71) DVD recordings and dubbings of radio broadcast performances by Earl Hines, Kid Ory, Teddy Buckner, and others, at Club Hangover in San Francisco; Ted Heath, Johnny Dankworth, Kenny Baker, and others on the BBC ; the Al White Orchestra and Joe Marcellino at Sabella’s on KNBC; Kurt Edelhagen on Radio Baden-Baden; as well as Jack Teagarden, Muggsy Spanier, George Shearing, and others on KCBS. In addition to musical performances there are four (4) cassette recordings of Turk Murphy interviewing pianist, Sid Le Protti.
Jim Cullum, Jr. Collection
Gift of Jim Cullum, Jr.
The Happy Jazz Band was started in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio where they established a jazz club, The Landing. Jim Cullum, Jr. continued the band after his father and changed the name of the group to simply, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The band is one of the foremost groups playing traditional Dixieland and early jazz and has a regular program distributed on public radio. This collection consists of 1130 reel-to-reel tapes of the Happy Jazz Band and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and covers over 20 years of the band’s performances. In addition to performances by the Cullum bands, the collection contains performances by other noteworthy traditional jazz performers including Jack Teagarden, Baby Dodds, Garner Clark, and lesser known, but important jazz musicians from Texas. The collection adds immeasurably to the Archives’ resources in the area of traditional jazz performance.
San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection
Gift of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation
The collection comprehensively covers the career of Turk Murphy and was assembled primarily by Jim Goggin and other members of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. Similar sub-collections of materials about other traditional jazz musicians were added to this core collection containing items related to Murphy, Lu Watters, and Murphy’s side men, such as William Miskell and Bob Helm, some of whom also had their own bands. The collection includes over 550 manuscript jazz arrangements (scores and parts) for the Turk Murphy band, musical arrangements by Lu Watters, and related groups; original transcription discs of unique sound and video recordings by Turk Murphy, Lu Watters, Kid Ory, and other musicians and bands; 218 loose leaf notebooks of materials compiled by Jim Goggin documenting the careers of Turk Murphy, Burt Bales, Clancy Hayes, Bob Scobey and similar jazz musicians; thousands of photographs documenting the career of Turk Murphy and other West Coast traditional jazz musicians; correspondence and business records of Murphy and his jazz club, Earthquake McGoon’s; and numerous boxes of ephemera, posters, and realia relating to Earthquake McGoon’s and Turk Murphy’s performances there. In total the collection consists of about 300 linear feet of materials comprised of 155 linear feet of archival materials and 145 linear feet of sound recordings.
Jam Handy Organization Collection
Gift of Rick Prelinger
The Jam Handy Organization produced training, promotional, industrial, and commercial sound recordings and films including many for the automobile industry following World War II. The collection consists of seventy (70) linear feet of magnetic and optical sound recordings on 35mm film documenting a wide range corporate activity from the 1940s through the early 1960s. The films include subjects and sound effects such as the Corvette, NASCAR racing, Alcoa, Chevrolet trucks, steel mills, a mimeograph, an electric can opener, fire alarms, rifles firing, and other similar sound effects.
Alan Farley Interview Collection
Gift of Alan Farley
Alan Farley’s weekly radio broadcast series, “Book Talk,” on KALW features interviews with various authors, musicians, and entertainment industry professionals. This gift adds the programs from 2006 to his collection which begins in 1996. Tony Kushner, Gay Talese, John Updike, John Dean, and David Suzuki, are among the fifty people interviewed.
Donald Day Collection
Gift of Donald Day
The collection is comprised of 2,362 sound recordings on 78 rpm discs and 47 radio transcription disc recordings primarily consisting of popular and country and western music performances ranging from the 1920s to 1950s. The performances on the 78 rpm discs cover a wide range of popular American culture including such performers as Roy Acuff, Gene Autry, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Hank Snow, Jimmy Rodgers, Mel Blanc, Victor Borge, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, the Weavers, and Bill Haley among many others. The radio transcription discs are primarily on the Armed Forces Radio Service label and include performances by Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Crooks and Marion Anderson, Fred Waring, George Szell conducting the New York Philharmonic, the Tuskegee Institute Choir, Risë Stevens, Fred Waring, and others.
Luryier Diamond Collection
Gift of Luryier Diamond
The Luryier Diamond Collection contains 1850 reel-to-reel tapes of broadcast and live performances of classical music and opera dating from the 1930s through the 1990s that are unavailable as published recordings. Performances of the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and the Teatro la Fenice are among the organizations found in the Collection which includes many unusual and rarely performed operas. All of the most important opera singers from the golden age of opera are represented in this collection resulting from a life-long interest in the world's greatest music and operas.
Monterey Jazz Festival Collection
Gift of the Monterey Jazz Festival
This donation adds archival sound recordings and print materials from the 50th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival of 2007 and miscellaneous retrospective materials dating back to 1958 to expand the Festival’s existing collection. The sound and video performances include appearances by Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Kenny Burrell, Ernestine Anderson, Terence Blanchard, and Diana Krall. The festival also premiered two new works: Monterey Moods by Gerald Wilson and Requiem for Katrina by Terence Blanchard. In addition to the archival materials, the gift includes six (6) new recordings on the Monterey Jazz Festival Records label and copies of the commemorative book, The Art of Jazz: Monterey Jazz Festival/50 Years by Keith and Kent Zimmerman.
William Carter Collection
Gift of William Carter.
The collection documents West Coast traditional jazz performances on unique recordings from the 1950s and early 1960s. It consists of one hundred eighty-eight (188) open reel tapes, two hundred eight (208) CD, and seventy-one (71) DVD recordings and dubbings of radio broadcast performances by Earl Hines, Kid Ory, Teddy Buckner, and others, at Club Hangover in San Francisco; Ted Heath, Johnny Dankworth, Kenny Baker, and others on the BBC ; the Al White Orchestra and Joe Marcellino at Sabella’s on KNBC; Kurt Edelhagen on Radio Baden-Baden; as well as Jack Teagarden, Muggsy Spanier, George Shearing, and others on KCBS. In addition to musical performances there are four (4) cassette recordings of Turk Murphy interviewing pianist, Sid Le Protti.
Jim Cullum, Jr. Collection
Gift of Jim Cullum, Jr.
The Happy Jazz Band was started in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio where they established a jazz club, The Landing. Jim Cullum, Jr. continued the band after his father and changed the name of the group to simply, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The band is one of the foremost groups playing traditional Dixieland and early jazz and has a regular program distributed on public radio. This collection consists of 1130 reel-to-reel tapes of the Happy Jazz Band and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and covers over 20 years of the band’s performances. In addition to performances by the Cullum bands, the collection contains performances by other noteworthy traditional jazz performers including Jack Teagarden, Baby Dodds, Garner Clark, and lesser known, but important jazz musicians from Texas. The collection adds immeasurably to the Archives’ resources in the area of traditional jazz performance.
San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection
Gift of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation
The collection comprehensively covers the career of Turk Murphy and was assembled primarily by Jim Goggin and other members of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. Similar sub-collections of materials about other traditional jazz musicians were added to this core collection containing items related to Murphy, Lu Watters, and Murphy’s side men, such as William Miskell and Bob Helm, some of whom also had their own bands. The collection includes over 550 manuscript jazz arrangements (scores and parts) for the Turk Murphy band, musical arrangements by Lu Watters, and related groups; original transcription discs of unique sound and video recordings by Turk Murphy, Lu Watters, Kid Ory, and other musicians and bands; 218 loose leaf notebooks of materials compiled by Jim Goggin documenting the careers of Turk Murphy, Burt Bales, Clancy Hayes, Bob Scobey and similar jazz musicians; thousands of photographs documenting the career of Turk Murphy and other West Coast traditional jazz musicians; correspondence and business records of Murphy and his jazz club, Earthquake McGoon’s; and numerous boxes of ephemera, posters, and realia relating to Earthquake McGoon’s and Turk Murphy’s performances there. In total the collection consists of about 300 linear feet of materials comprised of 155 linear feet of archival materials and 145 linear feet of sound recordings.