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Creator
Danska, Herbert
Call number
Sc MIRS Sweet 2002-57
Physical description
1 audio_recording
Language
English
Preferred Citation
Sweet Love, Bitter audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library
Sponsor
An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project.
Repository
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
Access to materials
Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.

Sweet Love, Bitter is an independent film directed by Herbert Danska in 1967, and written by Danska and Lewis Jacobs. The collection consists of one vinyl record of the original soundtrack for the film, composed and performed by jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mal Waldron.

Biographical/historical information

Sweet Love, Bitter is an independent film directed by Herbert Danska in 1967, and written by Danska and Lewis Jacobs. The film is based on the novel Night Song (1955), written by John Williams and inspired by the life of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.

Scope and arrangement

The collection consists of one vinyl record of the original soundtrack for the film, composed and performed by jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mal Waldron.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Purchase from McBlain Books, December 2002.

Processing information

Collection inventoried by Stacey Doyle Ference. Collection processed and described by Ornella U. Baganizi, archivist. Finding aid published in 2025.

Separated material

See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Sweet Love, Bitter film collection, Sc MG 710.

See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Sweet Love, Bitter motion picture stills collection, Sc Photo Motion pictures.

Using the collection

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Third Floor

Access to materials

Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.