{"value"=>"<p>This series consists of forty-three interviews with former jubilee quartet members, musicians, and producers, as well as experts, all arranged alphabetically by last name. All but three interviews were conducted by Buchanan: journalist Al Leston's interview with Buchanan, a mock interview between jazz pianists and composers Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, and a self-recording of bass singer Orlandus Wilson. Interviewees include Eddie Bonnemère, Leonard De Paur, Harry Douglass, Milt Hinton, Benjamin F. McLaurin, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Sy Oliver, and Bayard Rustin, amongst others. When information about interviewees' years of birth and death are available, they are included in the items' descriptions. Square brackets indicate the spelling of participants' names is unclear. The interviews were conducted from 1983 to 1987 and covered participants' experiences in jubilee quartets and the history of Black jubilee quartets.</p>"}