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Institute of Jazz Studies
Rutgers University Libraries

The Institute of Jazz Studies is the largest and most comprehensive library and archive of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world.

 

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It is the purpose of these web pages to document the services and activities of the Institute, to introduce its archives of jazz holdings, and to provide a digital sampling of the treasure trove of music, photos, history, instruments and memorabilia in the collections.

 

Lena Horne in 1981 with Dan Morgenstern, Director - Institute of Jazz Studies

Remembering Lena Horne

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Events and News:

- NEW - Jazz Archives Fellowship Program, 2012-2013

- Jazz From The Archives - on WBGO radio
- Jazz Research Roundtable - schedule

- NEW - Jazz Strings Concert Series, 2012-2013
- Past Events - Newark Jazz Legacy Concert Series, 2011-2012
- Past Events - Concert Series: From Dixieland to Deconstruction, 2010-2011

- Berger - Carter - Fund (grants for jazz researchers)
- NEW - Journal of Jazz Studies, a new online open format journal on jazz
- Audio Collections of Benny Carter and Benny Goodman have been digitized
--- New digital archival materials resulting from a recent Mellon Foundation Grant to the Institute Of Jazz Studies

- IJS Named Literary Landmark
- Dan Morgenstern, IJS Director, has retired - 2012
- Book by IJS Archivist, Tad Hershorn, wins Jazz Journalists Association award
- NEW: Anders Griffen joins the Institute of Jazz Studies as project archivist for the "Women in Jazz" project.
- New: Archivist Angela Lawrence has joined the staff of the Institute of Jazz Studies

- Click here for a tour of the Institute in a Photo Blog -similar to a tour on-site

- Remembering Abbey Lincoln - 6 August 1930 - 14 August 2010
- Remembering Lena Horne - 30 June 1917 - 9 May 2010
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On September 22 - John Cotton Dana Library and the Rutgers University Alumni Association sponsored a celebration of the life of Lena Horne (1917-2010) with a talk by Horne biographer James Gavin along with a special musical performance by Daryl Sherman.
- Retired IJS Archivist Ann Byrnes Kuebler passed away at the age of 61 on August 13, 2012.
--- Annie was an internationally recognized jazz archivist whose credits included opening the treasures of the Duke Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian Institution and that of pianist/composer/arranger Mary Lou Williams at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.

- Live Webcast Events

- Gerry Mulligan - A collaboration between IJS and the Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation, with music scores

Exhibits:
- Digital Jazz Greats Exhibits

 

 
Rutgers University Libraries

Institute of Jazz Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John Cotton Dana Library
185 University Ave.
Newark NJ USA 07102
Tel: (973) 353-5595
Fax: (973) 353-5944
Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time
14:00 to 22:00 UTC
Monday - Friday

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