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COLLECTION: Jerome S. Shipman Jazz resources

LOCATION AS OF 2001(date): Music Library open stacks or Special Collections areas (printed materials), and University Press storage area (78 rpm and possibly some LP recordings).

PROVENANCE: Private collection of donor

WHEN ACQUIRED: January 1993

DESCRIPTION: Donation included 20 magazine titles (540 separate issues), of which duplicates of existing holdings may not have been retained; 140 78-rpm recordings; and 14 LP discs. Labels of 78-rpm records include (among others) American Music, Blue Note, Climax, Circle, and Session. Also included, presumably, were 13 open-reel tapes produced by Arnold Bopp in the series Rare Jazz on Tape. Magazine runs included Record Changer, Jazz Record, The Needle, Jazz, Record Research, and others.

ARRANGEMENT: Journals in Music Library's open shelving or in Special Collections. All 78-rpm records in University Press storage area, arranged by accession number or by manufacturer/serial number. LP discs either fully cataloged (in Special Collections), or in University Press storage area.

ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: Collections File folder ("Shipman, Jerome S.") includes complete lists of donated items (prepared by donor and by Music Librarian William McClellan), along with correspondence relating to donation and a copy of pages from the publication "Mr. Jelly Lord" by Laurie Wright listing contents of limited edition albums issued by Circle Records.

INDEX TERMS: Jazz; Recordings: 78 rpm; Shipman, Jerome

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