Oral Histories
Interview of Harold Jackson
Jazz bass player.
- Subtitle:
- Central Avenue Sounds: Harold Jackson
- Series:
- Central Avenue Sounds Oral History Project
- Topic:
- African American HistoryMusic
- Biographical Note:
- Jazz bass player.
- Interviewee:
- Jackson, Harold
- Persons Present:
- Jackson and Isoardi.
- Place Conducted:
- Jackson's home in Los Angeles, California.
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Interviewer Background and Preparation:
- The interview was conducted by Steven Isoardi; B.A.; Government, University of San Francisco; M.A., Political Science, UCLA; Ph.D., Political Science, UCLA.Isoardi prepared for the interview by consulting jazz histories, autobiographies, oral histories, relevant jazz periodicals, documentary films, and back issues of California Eagle and the Los Angeles Sentinel.
- Processing of Interview:
- Jackson did not review the transcript. Therefore, some proper nouns remain unverified.Michelle Weiss, editorial assistant, complied the table of contents, interview history, and guide to proper names.
- Length:
- 4.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- 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.