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1. Interview of Horace Tapscott

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
12.6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Biographical Note:
Jazz trombone player and bandleader. Leader of the Pan-Afrikan People's Arkestra.

2. Interview of Gertrude S. Zeisl

Topic:
German Émigrés
Music
Length:
12 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
German emigre and wife of composer Erich Zeisl.

3. Interview of Buddy Collette

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
17 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Biographical Note:
Jazz flute, saxophone, and clarinet player. Advocate for the amalgamation of the black musicians’ local union, Local 767 and white musicians’ union, Local 47.

4. Interview of Frank Morgan

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
3.35 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Biographical Note:
Jazz alto and soprano saxophone player.

5. Interview of Melba Liston

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
1.6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Biographical Note:
Jazz arranger, composer, and trombone player.

6. Interview of Ernest Fleischmann (2009)

Topic:
Music
Length:
1.25 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and general director of the Hollywood Bowl.

8. Interview of Jerry Moss

Topic:
Music
Length:
11.4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Co-founder of A&M Records.

9. Interview of Robert Hurwitz

Topic:
Music
Length:
8.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
President of Nonesuch Records.

10. Interview of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Faculty
Music
Length:
14 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Founding chair of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.