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Exhibits

Jazz Greats Digital Exhibits: Count Basie, Benny Carter, Mary Lou Williams, Fats Waller, and Jazz Ambassadors
Jazz Oral History Project: 120 interviews with jazz musicians of the 20th century
Digital Exhibit from the Musical Instrument Collection
Gerry Mulligan - A collaboration between IJS and the Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation, with music scores
Ed Berger - Photographic Exhibit - Just a Mood
Jazz Photographers' Portfolio
Jazz on a Summer's Day - jazz photography exhibit
Celebration of Fats Waller's Centennial - May 8, 2004, at the Institute of Jazz Studies

Digital Jazz Performance Series - special videos

Jazz Dialogues: Intimate Improvisations - 2009-2010 live concert series

The musical instrument collection at the Institute of Jazz Studies includes:

The musical instrument collection at the Institute of Jazz Studies includes:

Sam Jones cello
Marshall Brown left-handed trombone
Eddie Condon 4-string guitar
Pepper Adams baritone saxophone
Keg Purnell bass drum
Brad Gowans combination slide/valve trombone
Joe Newman flugelhorn
Joe Newman trumpet
Pee Wee Irwin trumpet
Don Byas tenor saxophone
Jack Teagarden trombone
Cootie Williams trumpet
Vic Dickenson trombone
Hayes Alvin bass guitars
Pee Wee Russell clarinet
Ben Webster tenor saxophone
Buck Clayton trumpet

Red Nichols cornet
Bobby Hackett cornet
George Wettling drumsticks
Sonny Payne drumsticks
Roy Eldridge trumpet
Dickie Wells trombone
Howard McGhee trumpet mouthpieces and mutes
Miles Davis trumpet
Clarence Hutchinrider clarinet
Kid Ory trumpet
Benny Carter C-melody saxophone
Tommy Benford drum set
Lester Young tenor saxophone
Rahsaan Roland Kirk straight alto saxophone
Rahsaan Roland Kirk bass recorder
Rahsaan Roland Kirk baritone saxophone

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