HLMU 2100: Jazz History

This program documents more than one hundred senior jazz musicians, performers, relatives, and business associates. The interviews cover a wide range of topics including early years, initial involvement in music, generally, and jazz specifically, as well as experiences in the jazz music world.

This audio collection consists of 120 oral histories of seminal pre-Swing Era and Swing Era jazz musicians recorded between 1972 and 1983. The taped interviews range in length from 5 to 35 hours each and are accompanied by typewritten transcripts.

This archive and research center showcases lives and careers of great jazz artists and their important contribution to the history of jazz. It contains the music, artifacts, and memorabilia of several jazz musicians.