Scope and arrangement
The The Jabbo Smith collection is arranged in four series:
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This series contains four scrapbooks in two boxes. Some of the pages from these books had to be disbound intact and placed in individual folders.
The Jabbo Smith collection, Music Division, The New York Public Library
"Jabbo" Smith, born Cladys Smith in 1908 in Pembroke, Georgia, was an African-American jazz trumpeter, trombonist and singer. He died in St. Louis in 1991. The collection consists of autobiographical material; correspondence with Lorraine Gordon and others (1957-1991); financial receipts; medical records; contracts and agreements; passports and other official documents; performance files, news articles, press releases and programs (1930-1991), including information on One Mo' Time, Chicago Kool Jazz Festival, and Jazz Fest Berlin; scrapbooks and photographs of Smith, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, and others (1982-1991); and an account book (1969-1973) with aphorisms.
The The Jabbo Smith collection is arranged in four series:
This series contains four scrapbooks in two boxes. Some of the pages from these books had to be disbound intact and placed in individual folders.