Container List
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5227 M
You Better Believe It! The 17 Piece Orchestra of Gerald Wilson featuring the jazz organ of Richard "Groove" Holmes
[1961]
Performer: Gerald Wilson and his jazz orchestra ; with Richard "Groove" Holmes, jazz organ.
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Pacific Jazz
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: Stereo-34 Pacific Jazz; A-4009 Pacific Jazz
Scope and Content Note
Blues for Yna Yna (6:51) -- Jeri (3:40) -- Moody blue (3:05) -- Straight up and down (3:49) -- The wailer (7:16) -- You better
believe it (5:16) -- Yvette (3:33).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5228 M
Portraits / The Gerald Wilson Orchestra
[1963]
Performer: For jazz orchestra; Gerald Wilson, trumpet and leader.
Publisher: [Los Angeles] : Pacific Jazz
Physical Description: 1 sound disc (37 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: ST-80 Pacific Jazz
Scope and Content Note
So what (5:53) -- Caprichas (6:55) -- Paco (6:10) -- Ravi (5:53) -- Aram (3:43) -- Round midnight (3:10) -- Eric (3:11).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5229 M
On Stage / The Gerald Wilson Orchestra
[1965]
Performer: For jazz orchestra; Gerald Wilson, trombone and leader.
Publisher: [Los Angeles] : Pacific Jazz
Physical Description: 1 sound disc (39 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: ST-88 Pacific Jazz
Scope and Content Note
Los moros de Espana (3:05) -- Who can I turn to (2:50) -- Ricardo (4:30) -- Musette (2:34) -- In the limelight (5:47) -- Lighthouse
blues (7:25) -- El viti (3:50) -- Lately (3:42) -- Perdido (4:26).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5230 M
Feelin' Kinda Blues / The Gerald Wilson Orchestra
[196-?]
Performer: Gerald Wilson Orchestra ; with various soloists.
Publisher: Los Angeles : Pacific Jazz
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: ST 20099 Pacific Jazz; PJ 10099 Pacific Jazz
Scope and Content Note
When I'm feeling kinda blue / Jo Villasenor (3:40) -- Freddie Freeloader / Miles Davis (4:12) -- Do anything you wanna / H.
Betters, C. Ramsey (2:21) -- Yesterday / P. McCartney, J. Lennon (2:22) -- Watermelon man / Herb Hancock (6:02) -- Yeh yeh
/ J. Hendricks, R. Grant, L. Patrick (2:35) -- One on the house / E. Wilkin, H. James (4:36) -- I got you (I feel good) /
James Brown (2:46) -- I concentrate on you / Cole Porter (5:03) -- Well, son, shuffle / Mike Barone (2:53).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5231 M
The Golden Sword: Torero Impressions in Jazz / The Gerald Wilson Orchestra
[1966?]
Performer: The Gerald Wilson Orchestra.
Publisher: Los Angeles : Pacific Jazz
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: ST 20111 Pacific Jazz; PJ 10111 Pacific Jazz
Scope and Content Note
The golden sword (3:11) -- Man of la Mancha (2:16) -- The breeze and I (2:25) -- Carlos (5:23) -- Chanson du feu follet (Song
of the mad fire) (4:07) -- Mi corazon (My heart) (2:58) -- Blues latinese (5:35) -- The feather (from Teotihuacan Suite) (4:15)
-- La mentra (The lie) (2:05) -- The serpent (from Teotihuacan Suite) (4:05).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5232 M
Live and Swinging / The Gerald Wilson Orchestra
[1967]
Performer: Gerald Wilson conducting the Gerald Wilson Orchestra.
Publisher: Los Angeles : Pacific Jazz
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: ST-20118 Pacific Jazz
Scope and Content Note
Paper man (6:46) -- I should care (3:27) -- I've got it bad (and that aint' good) (4:10) -- The "it's" where it's at (5:38)
-- Blues for a scorpio (5:52) -- Li'l darlin' (5:17) -- Misty (3:03) -- Viva Tirado (7:46).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5233 M
Everywhere / The Gerald Wilson Orchestra
[197-?]
Performer: The Gerald Wilson Orchestra.
Publisher: Los Angeles : Pacific Jazz
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: ST-20132 Pacific Jazz
Scope and Content Note
Everywhere (4:19) -- Out of this world (5:35) -- Pretty Polly (2:30) -- M. Capetillo (2:42) -- Little bit of soul (3:50) --
Do I love you (because you're beautiful?) (2:53) -- Del Olivar (4:53) -- Mini waltz (4:47).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5234 M
Lomelin / [all numbers arranged and orchestrated by] Gerald Wilson
1981
Performer: Gerald Wilson orchestra of the 80's.
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Trend /Discovery Records
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33¹/3 rpm ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: DS-833 Discovery Records
Scope and Content Note
Lomelin (9:05) -- Ay-ee-en (7:15) -- See you later (6:37) -- You Know (7:30) -- Triple Chase (6:10) -- Blues for Zubin (8:20).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5235 M
Jessica / [all numbers arranged and orchestrated by] Gerald Wilson
1983
Performer: Gerald Wilson Orchestra of the 80's (featuring Ernie Watts, Harold Land, Oscar Brashear, "Snooky" Young, Gerald Wiggins, Bobby
Bryant, Milcho Leviev ; Jessica and Blues Bones and Bobby composed by Gerald Wilson ; Gerald Wilson, cnd).
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Trend Records
Physical Description: 1 sound disc (37 min., 1 sec.) : analog, 33¹/3 rpm ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: TR-531 Trend Records
Scope and Content Note
Jessica / Gerald Wilson (5:26) -- Love you madly / Duke Ellington (3:36) -- Blues Bones and Bobby / Gerald Wilson (10:24)
-- Get away / P. Cor/B. Taylor (9:27) -- Sophisticated lady / Ellington/Mills/Mitchell (3:39) -- Don't get around much anymore
/ Russell/Ellington (4:29).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARLP 5236 M
Calafia / all music composed by Gerald Wilson
1985
Performer: Gerald Wilson, guitar; Orchestra of the 80's.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Trend/Discovery Records.
Physical Description: 1 sound disc (60 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: TR-537 Trend Records
Scope and Content Note
Calafia (5:20) -- Eloy (5:49) -- The Redd Foxx (4:38) -- Polygon (4:34) -- 3/4 for Mayor Tom (6:58) -- Prince Albert (6:08)
-- Viva Tirado '85 (9:17).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 665
Calafia / [all music composed by] Gerald Wilson.
1985
Performer: Anthony Wilson, guitar; Orchestra of the 80's.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Trend/Discovery Records.
Physical Description: 1 sound disc (60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: TRCD 537 Trend Records
Scope and Content Note
Prince Albert (6:08) -- Calafia (5:20) -- Eloy (5:49) -- The Redd Foxx (4:38) -- 3/4 for Mayor Tom (6:58) -- Viva Tirado '85
(9:17) -- Polygon (4:34) -- Jessica (5:26) -- Blue bones and Bobby (10:24).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 666
Love you madly / Gerald Wilson
1988
Performer: Gerald Wilson's Orchestra of the 90's.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Discovery Records.
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Plate no.: DSCD-947 Discovery Records
Scope and Content Note
Love you madly (3:36) -- Getaway (9:25) -- Sophisticated lady (3:37) -- Don't get around much anymore (4:27) -- Lomelin (9:03)
-- Ay-ee-en (7:10) -- See you later (6:38) -- You know (7:30) -- Triple chase (6:08) -- Blues for Zubin (8:09).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 667
Jenna / Gerald Wilson
1985
Performer: Gerald Wilson's Orchestra of the 90's.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Trend/Discovery Records.
Physical Description: 1 sound disc (60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Plate no.: DSCD-964 Trend/Discovery Records
Scope and Content Note
Love for sale (4:14) -- Jenna (9:44) -- Carlos (5:21) -- Back to the roots (5:01) -- The wailer (4:28) -- Blues for Yna Yna
(6:50) -- B-bop and the song (5:21) -- Couldn't love, couldn't cry (2:34) -- Yarddog mazurka (3:14) -- 48 years later (3:20)
-- Lunceford special (3:31) -- Margie (3:12) -- Flying home (3:20).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 668
State Street sweet / The Gerald Wilson Orchestra.
1995
Performer: Big band music, conducted by Gerald Wilson, composer-arranger.
Publisher: Simi Valley, CA : MAMA Foundation.
Physical Description: 1 sound disc (56 min., 25 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: MMF 1010 MAMA Foundation
Scope and Content Note
State Street sweet (2:46) -- Lakeshore Drive (6:04) -- Lighthouse blues (7:48) -- Come back to Sorrento (5:19) -- The serpent
(4:03) -- The feather (5:54) -- Caprichos (6:28) -- Jammin' in C (8:47) -- Carlos (6:35) -- Nancy Jo (2:21).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 669-670
Suite memories : reflections on a jazz journey / Gerald WilsonCollector's ed.
1996
Performer: Gerald Wilson, narrator.
Publisher: Simi Valley, CA : MAMA Foundation ; [United States] : Spoken Word.
Physical Description: 2 sound discs (143 min., 20 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: MMF 1014 MAMA Foundation
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 671
Gerald Wilson and his orchestra: 1945-1946 / Gerald Wilson and his orchestra
1997
Performer: Gerald Wilson with Vernon Slater, Leo Trammel, Floyd Turnham, Eddie Davis, Maurice Simon, Jimmy Bunn, Isaac Livingstone, Melba
Liston, Robert Huerta, Henry Tucker Green, Robert Rudd, Hobart Dotsun, James Anderson; Pat Kay, Dick Gray, Betty Roche, Thrasher
Publisher: France : Classics.
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: 976 Classics
Scope and Content Note
Moon rise (3:21) -- Top of the hill (3:09) -- Synthetic Joe (3:20) -- Puerto Rican breakdown (3:06) -- Just one of those things
(2:40) -- Just give me a man (3:05) -- Yenta (3:17) -- Come Sunday (3:05) -- Love me a long, long time (2:50) -- I don't know
what that is (3:12) -- Groovin' high (3:06) -- I've got a right to sing the blues (3:11) -- You better change your way of
lovin' (3:10) -- Skip the gutter (2:52) -- I'll string along with you (2:56) -- Ain't it a drag (3:00) -- Cruisin' with Cab
(3:10) -- One o'clock jump (2:47) -- Warm mood (3:01) -- Pammy (2:53).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 672
Theme for Monterey / The Gerald Wilson Orchestra
1998
Publisher: Simi Valley, CA : MAMA
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: MMF 1021 MAMA
Scope and Content Note
Theme for Monterey. Romance ; Lyons' roar ; The lone cypress ; Spanish Bay ; Cookin' on Cannery Row / Gerald Wilson (44:00)
-- Summertime / George & Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward (13:27) -- Anthropology / John B. Gillespie, Charles C. Parker, Jr.,
& Walter Bishop (5:51).
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 673-674
The complete Pacific Jazz recordings of Gerald Wilson and his orchestra Discs I-II
2000
Publisher: Stamford, Conn. : Mosaic Records.
Physical Description: 2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: MD5-198 Mosaic Records; 72435-27382-2-9
Scope and Content Note
Disc 1. Blues for Yna Yna ; Jeri ; Moody blue ; Straight up and down ; The wailer ; You better believe it ; Yvette ; Viva
tirado ; Moment of truth ; Patterns ; Teri ; Nancy Jo ; Milestones ; Latino ; Josefina ; Emerge -- Disc 2. So what ; Caprichos
; Paco ; Ravi ; Aram ; 'Round midnight ; Eric ; Los moros de Espana~ ; Who can I turn to ; Ricardo ; Musette ; In the limelight
; Lighthouse blues-- El viti ; Lately ; Perdido.
Note
CD Box + insert located in Box 1 Commercial LPs.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 675-676
The complete Pacific Jazz recordings of Gerald Wilson and his orchestra Discs III-IV
2000
Publisher: Stamford, Conn. : Mosaic Records.
Physical Description: 2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: MD5-198 Mosaic Records; 72435-27382-2-9
Scope and Content Note
Disc 3. When I'm feeling kinda blue ; Freddie Freeloader ; Do anything you wanna ; Yesterday ; Watermelon man ; Yeh yeh ;
One on the house ; I got you (I feel good) ; I concentrate on you ; Well son shuffle ; The golden sword ; Man of La Mancha
; The breeze and I ; Carlos ; Chanson du feu follet (Song of the mad fire) ; Mi corazon (My heart) ; Blues latinese ; The
feather ; La mentira (The lie) ; The serpent. Disc 4. Paper man ; I should care ; I got it bad (and that ain't good) ; The
"IT's" where it's at ; Blues for a Scorpio ; L'il darlin' ; Misty ; Viva tirado ; Everywhere ; Out of this world ; Pretty
Polly ; M. Capetillo ; Little bit of soul ; Do I love you (because you're beautiful?) ; Del Olivar ; Mini waltz.
Note
CD Box + insert located in Box 1 Commercial LPs.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_ARCD 677
The complete Pacific Jazz recordings of Gerald Wilson and his orchestra Disc V
2000
Publisher: Stamford, Conn. : Mosaic Records.
Physical Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Note
Publisher no.: MD5-198 Mosaic Records; 72435-27382-2-9
Scope and Content Note
Disc 5. California soul ; Light my fire ; Channel island ; Lullaby for Rosmary's baby ; Sunshine of you love ; Russian river
; Yesterlove ; Down here on the ground ; El presidente ; Equinox ; Aquarius ; Pisces ; Scorpio rising ; Celestial soul ; Baby,
baby don't cry-- You, me and now ; Bluesnee.
Note
CD Box + insert located in Box 1 Commercial LPs.
Series 3.
Archive Master Documents
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 01
Articles
2006; 2004; 2003
Scope and Content Note
Includes article from Downbeat magazine January 2006 entitled "Master Roots: Gerald Wilson Goes Time Traveling to Reveal the
Sources of His Jazz Orchestral Genius" by Kirk Silsbee; UCLA Bruin 2004 article entitled "Jazz Great Brings Energy, Talent
to Classroom" by Andrew Wenzlaff; Detroit Free Press August 29, 2004 article entitled "Still Swingin'" by Mark Stryker; Billboard
magazine cover December 27, 2003.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 02
Certificates of Recognition
2005; 2003
Scope and Content Note
Contains a birthday greeting flyer; City of Detroit Certificate of Recognition; Grammy nomination advertisement.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 03
Liner Notes - ARLP 5237
n.d.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 04
Liner Notes - ARLP 5238
n.d.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 05
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters - Program
2004
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 06
Periodicals
2002; 2005
Scope and Content Note
Down Beat Magazine March 2002 issue; article that appeared in August 2005 issue of Down Beat.
Note
1 of 2.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 07
Periodicals
2002
Scope and Content Note
L.A. Jazz Scene Newspaper June 2002 Issue No. 178.
Note
2 of 2.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 08
Programs
2004
Scope and Content Note
Legends of Jazz Series Jazz Jam #28 featuring Gerald Wilson; 2004 Historically Black Colleges & Universities Student All-star
Big Band; 2004 New York Talent Recognition Performances at the 31st Annual Conference.
Note
1 of 2.
Box 1, Item 2008.02_Folder 09
Programs
2001
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles Jazz Society 19th Annual Jazz Tribute & Awards Dinner/Concert October 28, 2001.
Note
2 of 2.