San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection, 1930-2006

Summary

Title:

San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection

Dates:

1930-2006

Extent:

371 box(es)

Language:

English and English

Preferred citation:

San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection, ARS-0030. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection comprehensively covers the career of Turk Murphy and was assembled primarily by Jim Goggin and other members of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. Similar sub-collections of materials about other traditional jazz musicians were added to this core collection containing items related to Murphy, Lu Watters, and Murphy's side men, such as William Miskell and Bob Helm, some of whom also had their own bands. The collection includes over 650 manuscript jazz arrangements (scores and parts) for the Turk Murphy band, musical arrangements by Lu Watters, and related groups; original transcription discs of unique sound and video recordings by Turk Murphy, Lu Watters, Kid Ory, and other musicians and bands; 218 loose leaf notebooks of materials compiled by Jim Goggin documenting the careers of Turk Murphy, Burt Bales, Clancy Hayes, Bob Scobey and similar jazz musicians; hundreds of recordings in various formats, including lacquer transcription discs, open reel tapes, audio cassettes, CDs, CD-Roms, and videocassettes; thousands of photographs documenting the career of Turk Murphy and other West Coast traditional jazz musicians; correspondence and business records of Murphy and his jazz club, Earthquake McGoon's; and numerous boxes of ephemera, posters, and realia relating to Earthquake McGoon's and Turk Murphy's performances there. In total the collection consists of about 300 linear feet of materials comprised of 155 linear feet of archival materials and 145 linear feet of sound recordings.

Acquisition information:

The San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation in 2008-2009.

Processing information:

This finding aid was produced, in part, with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Collection was initially processed by Andrea Castillo in 2009. Franz Kunst received support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to continue processing the collection in 2012. Erin Hurley processed much of the collection in 2016-2017, and Frank Ferko completed processing in 2019.

Physical location:

Stanford Archive of Recorded SoundStanford University LibrariesStanford, California 94305-3076

File plan:

Box numbers have gaps. Also some contents of boxes were removed and placed in oversize folders, so the Extent includes the combination of the total box count and oversize folder count.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Jazz
Dixieland music

Names:

Yerba Buena Jass Band
San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation
Rose, Wally
Hayes, Clancy
Helm, Bob
Murphy, Turk
Watters, Lu

Places:

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Franz Kunst, Erin Hurley, and Frank Ferko

Date Encoded:

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-09-01 12:49:46 -0700 .

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