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Jazz

Specialists

Blogs

Monterey Jazz Festival complete programs and posters now available online through Searchworks | February 20, 2020
Databases of the week: streaming audio and video | October 8, 2019
Recent acquisitions by the Chuck Black Endowment for Early Jazz and Blues | April 12, 2018
The Chuck Black Collection for Early Jazz and Blues | March 6, 2018
Disappeared poet Weldon Kees surfaces in San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation collection | November 30, 2016

Topic guides

Jazz

Notable collections

  • Monterey Jazz Festival logo

    The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

    Recordings of live performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.

  • The Williams Quartette

    Bob Arnold Collection

    Bob Arnold was a popular music historian and collector in Albany, California. His collection consists of his research and correspondence, and includes scrapbooks, program notes, interviews on cassette, and compilations on open reel tape drawn from his music collection. Perhaps his most successful project was about a 1930s jazz singer named Midge Williams.

  • Riverwalk Jazz logo

    Riverwalk Jazz Collection

    Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era.

  • l to r: Jim Cullum Sr., Willson Davis, Louis Armstrong, Harvey Kindervater, and Jim Cullum Jr., 1965.

    Jim Cullum Collection

    Tape recordings of the Happy Jazz Band and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band covering over 30 years of the band's performances. The collection also contains performances by other noteworthy performers including Jack Teagarden and Bobby Hackett.

  • Richard Hadlock

    Richard Hadlock Annals of Jazz Collection

    Open reel tape recordings of the “Annals of Jazz” radio program produced and hosted by historian and educator Richard Hadlock, broadcast on KCSM, San Mateo between 1982 and 1991.

  • Earl Hines, New York, ca. Mar. 1947

    Ken Ackerman Collection

    The Ken Ackerman Collection consists of broadcast recordings of live jazz performances from the 1950s and 60s, captured at various clubs in San Francisco, particularly Club Hangover.

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