Research Catalog
Bill Spilka collection of jazz videorecordings
- Title
- Bill Spilka collection of jazz videorecordings [videorecording].
- Author
- Spilka, Bill.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 156 video cassettes : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- This collection contains videotapes of live interviews and performances of the sidemen and women of the big bands of the 1930's, 40's and 50's.
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Users never directly handle video recordings. Listening selections are transmitted through a playback system.
- Terms of Use (note)
- No copying of private, non-commercial material is allowed without the written permission of the proprietary rights holder. For further information contact the Curator, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
- Source (note)
- Spilka, Bill.
- Biography (note)
- Bill Spilka is a professional trombonist, bassist, and jazz researcher.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Guide to the collection (i.e. finding aid) available in *L(Special) 99-13 and on Internet.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- *L (Special) 99-13
- OCLC
- NYPG02-A4
- Author
- Spilka, Bill.
- Title
- Bill Spilka collection of jazz videorecordings [videorecording].
- Access
- Collection is open to the public. Users never directly handle video recordings. Listening selections are transmitted through a playback system.
- Terms Of Use
- No copying of private, non-commercial material is allowed without the written permission of the proprietary rights holder. For further information contact the Curator, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
- Biography
- Bill Spilka is a professional trombonist, bassist, and jazz researcher. He has played venues ranging from burlesque to the Newport & JVC Festivals. He leads his own Rowdy Rooters, the official band of the New York Rangers. He has also played with musicians such as Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong.He joined the photography staff of Metronome magazine in 1955, and over the years has done assignments for The New York Times, Life, The New Yorker, Jazz Today, and many others. He is also the official photographer of the New York Brass Conference for Scholarships. He received a Jazz Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to document on videotape the lives and performances of the sidemen and women who made up the big jazz-oriented dance bands of the "Golden Age" (1935-45).
- Indexes
- Guide to the collection (i.e. finding aid) available in *L(Special) 99-13 and on Internet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Battaglia, Joe. PerformerCurson, Ted. PerformerLowe, Jim. PerformerUlano, Sam. Performer
- Research Call Number
- *L (Special) 99-13