JAZZ SCRAPBOOK

Collector William Russells passion for jazz is the underlying rhythm throughout Jazz Scrapbook. The book offers cameo portraits of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, Mahalia Jackson, Baby Dodds, Natty Dominque, and Fess Manettaa roll call of early jazz greats, all born in New Orleans. Nine essays and 66 rare period photographs give an intimate, backstage view of the jazz world documented by the William Russell Jazz Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

Carol O. Bartels, documentation coordinator at the Historic New Orleans Collection, received a B.A. in social science education and an M.A. in history with a concentration in archives and records administration from the University of New Orleans. Mark Cave holds a B.A. in history from Ohio University and an M.L.I.S. degree from the University of Kentucky. He serves as reference archivist at the Collection's Williams Research Center, where the WIlliam Russell Jazz Collection is made available to researchers. Richard Jackson served for twenty-five years as head of the Americana Collection in the New York Public LIbrary's music division at Lincoln Center until his retirement. He is a volunteer at the Williams Research Center. Jon Kukla is director of the Historic New Orleans Collection, an authority on early southern political and intellectual history, and a lapsed saxaphone player. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and enjoys writing about a wide range of subjects. M. Theresa LeFevre studied archives and records management after a teaching career in the Orleans Parish schools. She is registrar of manuscripts at the Collection. Alfred Lemmon, curator of manuscripts at the Williams Research Center, received his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. An authority on the music of the Americas, he has overseen the processing of the Williams Russell Jazz Collection since its acquisition in 1992. John Magill is curator in charge of the reading room at the Williams Research Center. He holds an M.A. in history from the University of New ORleans and has written and lectured extensively about the urban development of New Orleans. Dan B. Ross spent many years in the Southwest before returning to New Orleans to pursue an interest in New Orleans music. He is currently helping to process the William Russell Jazz Collection. Nancy Ruck, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, has worked at the Museum of Broadcasting in New York City and at Rockefeller University. She is manuscripts cataloger at the Historic New Orleans Collection where she is cataloguing the William Russell Jazz Collection.