Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival Office records and Collection on Jazz
Content Description
This collection includes various materials from the U of I Jazz Festival Office as well as the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Included are audio/visual media, photographs, papers, correspondence, office records, financial materials, sponor information, festival programs and memorabilia, and much more.
Dates
- Creation: 1940-2023
Creator
- University of Idaho. School of Music (Organization)
- University of Idaho. Department of Music (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Restrictions on Use
This collection contains sensetive and restricted material. Consult Head of Special Collections and Archives on permissions for use.
Biographical / Historical
The first University of Idaho Jazz Festival took place in 1967, with a dozen student groups and one guest artist. The festival continued to grow from there, even lining up Ella Fitzgerald to take U of I's stage in 1982. In 1984, Lionel Hampton visited and performed at the festival, and soon established a long-lasting relationship with the unviersity. Inspired by the enthusiasm of the students, Hamp pledged his support to the festival and, in 1985, the festival was renamed in his honor. From the festival, many outreach intiatives have taken place. The "Jazz in the Schools" program began in the year 1995. In 2007, the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival was awarded a National Medal of Arts — the nation's most prestigious arts award. Performers have included artists such as Doc Severinsen, Bobby McFerrin, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, The Manhattan Transfer, and countless musicians from around the world.
Extent
50 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Lionel Hampton Center, Jazz Festival, and Jazz Office papers, correspondence, records, memorabilia, posters, audio/visual media, and other materials.
Arrangement
This processing for this collection was begun by Courtney Berg. Berg had begun arranging and separating the materials into series as well as creating folder names. The materials in the Jazz Office Series were in no apparent order, and so the next processor continued with the previous arrangement strategy by Berg.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The materials were transfered to U of I Library Special Collections and Archives from the Jazz Festival Office in 2016.
Existence and Location of Copies
Some of the materials in this collection were digitized and made into the digital Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival Collection.
Subject
- Hampton, Lionel (Person)
- Lionel Hampton Allstar Big Band (Person)
- Fitzgerald, Ella (Person)
- Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (Person)
- Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (Person)
- Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994 (Person)
Topical
- Musical groups
- African American women jazz singers
- Arrangement (Music)
- Concert programs
- Correspondence
- Idaho
- Jazz
- Jazz
- Jazz musicians--United States--Archives
- Jazz singers
- Jazz--History--20th century--Sources
- Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival (Moscow, Idaho)
- Music
- Music teachers -- Idaho -- Moscow
- Music--Instruction and study--United States.
- Performing Arts
- Photographs
- Women jazz singers
- Women jazz singers -- United States
- Title
- Guide to Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival Office records and Collection on Jazz
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Courtney Berg; updated by Sara Szobody in 2024; updated by Ariana Burns in 2024
- Date
- 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English and Russian.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository