Jazz Oral History Project,
Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Libraries
Transcripts of oral histories available online are rendered in boldface type. Contact IJS about gaining access to join the Institute for Jazz Studies' Research Community to have access to full-text searchable PDFs of all available Jazz Oral History Project transcripts.
Count Basie, Basie alumni and others associated with Kansas City jazz are among 125 interviews that comprise the Jazz Oral History Project (1972-1984) housed at the Institute of Jazz Studies. They include Basie, Buck Clayton, Vic Dickenson, Eddie Durham, Harry Edison, Freddie Green, Helen Humes, Quentin Jackson, Jay McShann, Gene Ramey, Marshall Royal, Buster Smith, Buddy Tate, Big Joe Turner, Earle Warren and Mary Lou Williams.
Nathan W. Pearson/Howard Litwak Interviews, 1977
23 Audio Cassette Tapes
Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Libraries
Interviews for Goin' to Kansas City, Urbana: Illinois UP, 1987
Interview subjects include Count Basie, Eddie Barefield, Buck Clayton, Ernest Daniels, Eddie Durham, Charles Goodwin, Irene McLaurin, Sammy Price, Gene Ramey, William Saunders, Jesse Stone, Myra Taylor, Herman Walder and Booker Washington.
Frank Driggs Oral History Collection
Marr Sound Archives, University of Missouri-Kansas City
The Driggs Oral History Collection includes 314 oral histories done between 1956 and 1986 concentrate on the Kansas City jazz scene through musicians and others involved in the music.