Name/Title
Jazz memorabiliaEntry/Object ID
2024.04.108Scope and Content
Jazz memorabilia including:
- Three 11x17 inch posters from The 1st Douglas-Saugatuck Chicago Blues Festival - A tribute to Muddy Waters and Lovie Lee Watkins from 1992.
-Two 11x17 inch posters from The 3rd Douglas-Saugatuck Jazz and Arts Festival from 1993.
- Black folder for the New Era Quartet containing nine 8x10 black-and-white press photos. Quartet: Don Preston, Ronnie Fields, Jimmy Stevenson, Joe Patton.
- Five color ink-jet prints about musical novelty performer Joss Wind, the “Top Musical Comedian from Europe” with images of him playing at a venue marked “What Not Inn”
- Poster for Tommy Scott’s Old Time Medicine Show sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
- Manila folder filled with documents collected by Jim Schmiechen about the local jazz scene including:
- Biography of Eddie Calhoun (Because this item was printed on fading fax paper, a contrast-enhanced photo is included in this entry)
- List of musicians playing during “Side Street Sessions”, as well as their locations, during the 1991 Jazz Festival.
- Jim Cooper article, March 1991;
- Bop Shop Jazz Club (Chicago) press release, 1990 flyer and newsletter “Chicago Jazz Musicians travel to Douglas-Saugatuck” for the 1991 Jazz Festival
- Saugatuck/Douglas Convention and Visitors Bureau (SDCVB) press release for Pavilion Night written by Douglas resident John Balmer and a fading fax of Grand Rapids article about Pavilion Night scat singer Jackie Allen. (fax, contrast-enhanced pictured below)
- SDCVB Press release about a jazz memorial service for Malawi Nururdin, 1991.
- 8x10 inch photo of an unknown man - presumably a jazz musician.
- Two-page article written by Mike Sweeney about the history of jazz in Saugatuck.
- Microfiche prints of Commercial Record articles about the jazz festival of the 1960s.
- “Swing Into Spring Jazz Festival” poster at Coral Gables (no date).
Envelope of newspaper clippings, flyers, posters from the Blue Tempo House of Music including:
- Obituary for Donald “Toad” Davis, the owner of the Blue Tempo.
- Poster for the Jazz Combo at the Blue Tempo, with advertising about Ira Sullivan.
- Letter concerning rates and information about the Blue Tempo Hotel and Bar.
- Six posters advertising the Jazz Combo at the Blue Tempo.
- Flyer for Ira Sullivan at the Blue Tempo August 17th-19th.
- Flyer for the Blue Tempo All-Star Jazz Festival featuring Ira Sullivan.
- Two posters for Blue Tempo’s “Touch of Chicago’s Old Town” Jazz. (NOTE: only one poster in box.)
Poster for the Blue Tempo featuring the Eric Kayser Trio.
- The Blue Tempo “The House of Music” envelope.
- Lakeshore Jazz Connection items including flyer for a concert honoring the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Summer Jazz Series concerts featuring Frieda Lee and the Dick Reynolds Trio, Paul VornHagen Quartet, Jim Cooper Quartet are in box 127.Context
Documents and photos of Saugatuck's jazz performance scene.Collection
Music: Jazz, Music: concerts, festivals, performancesCataloged By
Ashley, Arthur C 1949-Acquisition
Accession
2024.04Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
What Not Inn, Davis, Donald "Toad", First Saugatuck Douglas Ira Sullivan Jazz & Arts Festival, The, Douglas-Saugatuck Jazz/Arts Festival Production, Jazz Festival Committee, West Michigan Jazz Society, Blue Tempo/349 Culver/Ed-Mar/Louis Beuerle Hotel ?-1976, Sullivan, Ira 1931-2020, Lakeshore Arts ConnectionCreate Date
November 6, 2021Update Date
November 4, 2024
