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Box 3

 Container

Contains 19 Results:

Letter from Borclay Henry

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Notes, drafts, and writings on jazz criticism and biography. Also, letters to Balliett and photographs. The Whitney Balliett collection houses a variety of papers and correspondences from Balliett's career. There are a number of notebooks containing (nearly illegible) notes of various musician's concerts or recordings. There are also items relating to the New Yorker, including a drawing of Buddy Rich by Balliett that appeared in the magazine. Some notable letters include notes from Alice...
Dates: 1941-2006

Letters from Cheatham, Doc - Ellis, Anita - Lewis, John

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Notes, drafts, and writings on jazz criticism and biography. Also, letters to Balliett and photographs. The Whitney Balliett collection houses a variety of papers and correspondences from Balliett's career. There are a number of notebooks containing (nearly illegible) notes of various musician's concerts or recordings. There are also items relating to the New Yorker, including a drawing of Buddy Rich by Balliett that appeared in the magazine. Some notable letters include notes from Alice...
Dates: 1941-2006

Letters from Alex Wilder

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Notes, drafts, and writings on jazz criticism and biography. Also, letters to Balliett and photographs. The Whitney Balliett collection houses a variety of papers and correspondences from Balliett's career. There are a number of notebooks containing (nearly illegible) notes of various musician's concerts or recordings. There are also items relating to the New Yorker, including a drawing of Buddy Rich by Balliett that appeared in the magazine. Some notable letters include notes from Alice...
Dates: 1941-2006

Photo by Jack Bradley, p. 19 - Whitney, Nancy dancing... from DownBeat magazine

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Notes, drafts, and writings on jazz criticism and biography. Also, letters to Balliett and photographs. The Whitney Balliett collection houses a variety of papers and correspondences from Balliett's career. There are a number of notebooks containing (nearly illegible) notes of various musician's concerts or recordings. There are also items relating to the New Yorker, including a drawing of Buddy Rich by Balliett that appeared in the magazine. Some notable letters include notes from Alice...
Dates: 1941-2006

Photos of Musicians

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Notes, drafts, and writings on jazz criticism and biography. Also, letters to Balliett and photographs. The Whitney Balliett collection houses a variety of papers and correspondences from Balliett's career. There are a number of notebooks containing (nearly illegible) notes of various musician's concerts or recordings. There are also items relating to the New Yorker, including a drawing of Buddy Rich by Balliett that appeared in the magazine. Some notable letters include notes from Alice...
Dates: 1941-2006

The Saturday Review (pieces by WB)

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Notes, drafts, and writings on jazz criticism and biography. Also, letters to Balliett and photographs. The Whitney Balliett collection houses a variety of papers and correspondences from Balliett's career. There are a number of notebooks containing (nearly illegible) notes of various musician's concerts or recordings. There are also items relating to the New Yorker, including a drawing of Buddy Rich by Balliett that appeared in the magazine. Some notable letters include notes from Alice...
Dates: 1941-2006

Original Manuscript - City Voices: Fourteen New York Portraits

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Notes, drafts, and writings on jazz criticism and biography. Also, letters to Balliett and photographs. The Whitney Balliett collection houses a variety of papers and correspondences from Balliett's career. There are a number of notebooks containing (nearly illegible) notes of various musician's concerts or recordings. There are also items relating to the New Yorker, including a drawing of Buddy Rich by Balliett that appeared in the magazine. Some notable letters include notes from Alice...
Dates: 1941-2006

Photograph of Balliett with Duke Ellington backstage at the Monterey Jazz Festival., 1966

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Also in the photograph is Nancy and Fred Seligo's date. Fred took the photograph at three a.m.

Dates: 1966

Photographs

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Includes photograph of Balliett at home taken by A. Hall, a New Yorker publication with an interview and photographs titled "Whitney Balliett and All That Jazz", and a photograph of drummer Big Sid Catlett by Skippy Adelman taken circa 1945, printed later.

Dates: 1941-2006