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.