Dolores Brandon interviews

Collection — Container: Box 1

Identifier: IJC MG 24

Staff Only

Content Description

5 Audio Tape Cassettes: Cassette I: Side A includes ambience recorded on site at the party held at the Soho home of portrait artist, Frederick Brown - 10 minutes in Ceremonial introductions and naming of important attendees: e.g. Congressman, Charles Rangel, Mayor R. Giuliani - 12 minutes in words by Brown and Hampton himself thanking people for coming - 18 minutes in accepting portrait into collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Museum - 22 minutes in casual comments by Consul General of Austria SIDE A ends around 25 minutes

Side B Hampton himself - approximately 29 minutes NOTE: I, DB, forget where I interviewed LH (?? it was clearly not at the party... likely an office/hotel somewhere in New York City. ???) I am more or less off mic insofar as I was conducting the interview solo without an engineer and used only one microphone.

Topics in sequence: LH Talks briefly about the fire, his grandmother, childhood experiences, rudiments of drumming learned early, Dr. Swift, playing with Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman Quartet (first integrated band); pioneer on vibraphone (made out of metal, electric motor, pedal; “I took the goodness out of all sounds and put that into my music”; Flying Home popularity- citation - fit into all styles of music - a million + plays on the radio unusual for jazz; U of Idaho Festival and School of Music; importance of his wife, Gladys, to his career; grandfather’s association with Al Capone, favorite melodies - singing; How High the Moon. Perfection

Cassette II: DUB of the produced feature (as broadcast 6/23/97)

Cassette III: Dan Master taped interview with Dan Morgenstern - 5/30/1997

Cassette IV: DUB interview with Dr. Joshua Skinner 5/8/1997

Cassette V: DUB of the Master taped interview of Joshua Skinner 5/8/1997

2 REEL TO REEL Audio tapes

I: 7” Master Taped interview (done via telephone) with Dr. Joshua Skinner 5/8/1997

II: Reel to Reel dub of the actual produced feature as broadcast 6/29/97

Dates

Creation: 1997

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

The University of Idaho does not hold the copyright on materials in this collection. For permission to reproduce any portion of these materials for commercial purposes, please direct inquiries to the record creator. Contact Special Collections and Archives for more information.

Biographical / Historical

Dolores Brandon is an author, writer, and public speaker, as well as a producer and broadcast journalist. Over the course of more than 20 years Dolores profiled artists working across a full spectrum of artistic disciplines – visual and literary arts, music, theater and performance art. The bulk of this work was produced for two cultural affairs “magazines” – Crossroads and Arbeat (under the direction of Executive Producer, Elisabeth Perez-Luna) and distributed over National Public Radio.

Although the features she produced often fell into the short-form (under 8 minutes) category, her interviews tended to be long. Each interview sought to be richly descriptive of the artist’s personal philosophy and purpose; each one a dialog on issues of current concern.

In 1997, Dolores was working as an independent producer contributing short-feature for ARTBEAT/CROSSROADS, distributed via National Public Radio and the Pacifica Radio newworks. That year she had the privilege of covering Lionel Hampton's birthday party held in New York (Soho).