Library Jazz Music

[Magnhild Lachowicz]

Throughoutthis material there are notes about Charles Mingus, with whom he often played, and a co-founder of Debut Records, one of the first music companies owned by jazz musicians. The Music Division also holds a Charles Mingus collection, rich with his scores and recordings, his financial and business dealings, and several versions of his remarkable meta-autobiography, Beneath the Underdog. There are also letters from Mingus to Roach that deal with their musical and social lives, and the chance to read about the interaction between musicians in their own words offers a valuable experience to those who want a deeper sense of the lives of musicians within the community of performers.

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Little Rascals Brass Band at the 10th Anniversary Parade of the Rebirth Brass Band, 1993, New Orleans. Photographer: John McCusker. Hogan Archive photography collection, Tulane University Special Collections.

From 1986-2019, The Jazz Archivist (ISSN: 1085-8415) served as a newsletter and non-peer reviewed journal covering jazz and New Orleans music. Published by the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, the publication featured articles and updates written by Hogan Archive staff, as well as independent researchers and scholars. The Jazz Archivist ceased publication after its 2019 issue.

The Music Library supports the College of Music and the UNT community in providing outstanding collections of books about music, music journals, printed music, sound recordings from historic through contemporary formats, and music-related electronic databases. Special collections are a particular strength, emphasizing not only the many genres classified under Western art music and jazz, but also popular music and world music. Our dedicated full-time staff members and student assistants are available to provide access services and research assistance to patrons from UNT and beyond.

As a child, the jazz piano seed was planted when I found an early interest in boogie-woogie and blues piano. I spent many afternoons in the living room with sunglasses on pretending to be Ray Charles. A yearned for the stride left hand of Fats Waller and Art Tatum.

I got more serious about my future at the piano when I went off to college, where I studied classical piano at the University of Toledo and Cleveland State University. Through those studies I gained a more diverse appreciation for all forms of music.

College did wonders for my playing technique, where I improved fluency in scales and arpeggios while becoming comfortable across all the keys and tonalities. The nerd in me really loved learning more about music theory, and I took every course the school would let me.

After college I narrowed my piano study to focus on jazz, which has been my passion ever since. Over years of continued study, both independently and with great private teachers, I've broken down what I've learned into a personal notebook. That notebook has guided me in teaching students of my own for many years, and informs most of what I write here on Jazz-Library.

Long story short, I understand support for local Music Libraries is dwindling, understand the 65,000 limit, understand the S1 SMB1 and subsequent S2 SM2/SM3 support issue... but still I cannot play get library to play on any of my 5 Sonos speakers (Roam/Play:1/Play:3).

I have 100GB and over 13K songs on a Synology NAS shared drive, 150GB home wifi and 3 so-called 'wifi discs', so the house is covered. Initially attempted to add my library via an iPhone 13 and S2, as I noticed it dropped off approximately four weeks ago. Several failed attempts later I tried again by downloading a fresh Sonos Controller app (Sonos_71.1) on a MacBook Pro 2020 running Ventura 13.2.1. Settings > Music Library > +, entered the //IP/Music with the creds and waited. After 5 hours of the of the spinning wheel of death, I get the "There is not enough room...' message.

We have 66 playlists on a SONOS V15.2 S2 system and have been having issue with the Playlist disappearing. I have an open case with technical support, and they indicate that they are working on it. The music is stored on A SYNOLOGY DA1821+ NAS. There are 287 subfolders.

We have been using SONOS since it first came out and have updated from S1 to S2 and expanded the system numerous times. The SONOS Wife Factor is steadily declining as she can no longer reliably access her playlist from her iPhone.

65,000 is an approximation - if the tracks have more metadata than average, then the real limit would be lower than this number, but it seems unlikely that 13,000 tracks would have sufficient metadata to take up enough memory for 65,000!

For this reason, I would ask you to be entirely sure that there are only 13,000 tracks located in the music folder, and that the folder is only referenced to once in the Sonos app. I have seen instances whereby a user has accidentally duplicated their entire music collection with a simple slip of the mouse while the left button is being clicked (in the file/folder view).

Playlists can be imported en-mass from an iTunes/Apple Music .xml file, or individually from actual playlist files such as .m3u or .pls. As .m3u files are reported, they will exist in the file system - I recommend performing a search of your music folder for these and removing them.

Friday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m.: Eliane Elias Quartet

Eliane Elias is a highly acclaimed pianist, composer and vocalist, with numerous Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards. Her unique style seamlessly blends jazz with the lively rhythms of her Brazilian heritage, showcasing her exceptional piano skills and smooth vocals. Presented through the generous support of the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family. Reserve tickets here.

Thursday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.: Lakecia Benjamin

Lakecia Benjamin's explosive performances are a testament to her energy and dedication. As the 2023 Library of Congress Jazz Scholar, Benjamin will inspire and educate through her performance and educational engagement. Reserve tickets here.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.

In 1995 this collection was purchased with financial support from the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund. The collection consists of jazz photographs taken by writer-photographer William P. Gottlieb, from 1938 to 1948, the "Golden Age of Jazz" when swing reached its peak and modern jazz developed. While on assignment for the Washington Post, Down Beat magazine, and Record Changer, Gottlieb photographed and interviewed jazz pioneers primarily in Washington, D.C., and New York City. A skilled craftsman, the self-taught photographer captured the personalities of jazz musicians in a sensitive, storytelling manner. The collection is an important contribution to the documentation of American culture during a time when jazz music thrived. Gottlieb's photographs are perhaps the most widely reproduced images of jazz musicians, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter.

Approximately 1,600 negatives and color transparencies, 54 framed exhibition prints, 950 reference prints, and accompanying contact prints compose the collection. The bulk of the negatives are black-and-white nitrate or acetate film cut into three sizes: 2-1/4 x 2-1/4, 3-1/4 x 4-1/4, and 4 x 5 inches. Contact prints are 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches or less and are often annotated with cropping, burning, and other special instructions. Gottlieb divided his photographs into two separate series. Series A contains many of the most frequently published images while Series B consists of less popular, but not necessarily lower quality, photographs. Uncropped 8 x 10-inch reference prints of Series A are available in the Music Division Reading Room. The Prints and Photographs Division houses the negatives, color transparencies, and contact prints, but the Music Division Reading Room handles reference work related to the collection.

The online collection provides access to digital images of all sixteen hundred negatives and transparencies, approximately one hundred annotated contact prints, and over two hundred selected photographic prints that show Gottlieb's cropping, burning, and dodging preferences. One can follow the artist's work process by examining first a raw negative, then an annotated contact print, and finally a finished, published product. The Web site also includes digital images of Down Beat magazine articles in which Gottlieb's photographs were first published. Other special features of the online presentation are audio clips of Gottlieb discussing specific photographs, articles about the collection from Civilization magazine and the Library of Congress Information Bulletin, an essay describing Gottlieb's life and work, and a "Gottlieb on Assignment" section that showcases Down Beat articles about Thelonious Monk, Dardanelle, Willie "the Lion" Smith, and Buddy Rich.

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