Guide to the Mimi Melnick Collection
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series I: Personal Files, 1938-2012
Autograph Books, 1944-1947
Center Theatre Group, Performing Arts Program, Zoot Suit, September 1978
Civic Organizations, 1967, 1972, 1982, 2006
Correspondence from Mimi Clar Melnick, 1956-2012
Diary, 1945-1949
Diary, 1950
Diary, 1951
Diary, 1952
Diary, 1953
Diary, 1954
Diary, 1955
Diaries, 1958-1967
Diaries, 1971-1984
Diaries, 1974-1984
Diaries, 1980-1990
Diaries, 1984-2002
Diaries, 1990-1993
Education Correspondence, 1955-1961
Events, 1958, 1997, 2002, 2007
Filming and Acting, 1981, 2002
Folklore
General Correspondence, 1954-1956
General Correspondence, 1956-1959
General Correspondence, 1960
General Correspondence, 1961
General Correspondence, 1962-1969
General Correspondence, 1972-1979
General Correspondence, 1980-1981
General Correspondence, 1982-1986
General Correspondence, 1987-1989
General Correspondence, 1990-1991
General Correspondence, 1992-1997
General Correspondence, 1998-1999
General Correspondence, 2000-2001
General Correspondence, 2002-2003
General Correspondence, 2004-2005
General Correspondence, 2006
General Correspondence, 2007
General Correspondence, 2008
General Correspondence, 2009-2010
General Correspondence, 2011-2012
General Correspondence
General Correspondence
General Correspondence
General Interest Articles, 1943-1944, 1956, 1982
Goodie Williams, 2001-2009
John Marshall High School Reunion, 1993, 2003
John Marshall High School Yearbook, 1953
Lead Sheets and Musical Sketches by Mimi Clar Melnick
Lead Sheets and Musical Sketches by Mimi Clar Melnick
Lead Sheets and Musical Sketches by Mimi Clar Melnick
Lead Sheets and Musical Sketches by Mimi Clar Melnick
Lecture Notes
Left Brain Dialogues Center Workshops, 1980-1989
Music Lesson Book, 1938
Music Lesson Book, 1944
Music Lessons and Notes, 1990-1998
Personal Jazz Experiences, 1947-1987
Personal Jazz Experiences, 1988-2012
Playboy Jazz Festival Program, June 2006
School Notebook, 1938
School Notebooks, 1985
School Papers, 1956-1957
The Second Line, v.7 no.9-10, v.9 no.9-10, v.11 no.9-12, v.13 no.1-2, 1956, 1959, 1961-1962
Silveto Productions Correspondence, 1981-1990
Ski Hi Ranch Correspondence, 1976-1979
Time, 1964 February 28
Travel Diaries, Robert Melnick, 1964-1975
UCLA Music Papers, 1953, 1956-1959, 1964
UCLA Music Papers, 1953, 1956-1959, 1964
World Stage Performance Gallery Programs, 2005-2006
World Stage Performance Gallery Programs, 2007-2009
Aptitude Tests, May-June 1985
Newspaper Clippings, 1959, 1962, 1992, 2009
Thiel's Oriental Art Brochure
"Castles of the Sea," by Irene Rodgers
"Clair De Lune," by Claude Debussy
"Dance of the Dwarfs," by Michael Aaron
"Dancing with My Shadow," by Berenice Benson Bentley
"Passacaglia from the Seventh Suite," by George Frederick Handel, 1942
"Scotch Poem," by Edward Mac Dowell
"The Wood Nymph's Harp," by Florence P. Rea
Scrapbook, 1949-1962, 1981-2009
Home and Family, Photographic Prints and Negatives, 1997 June 1, Fall 2000
Series II: Professional Files, 1948-2013
American Anthropologist, v.61 no.6, December 1959
BMI: The Many Worlds of Music, March 1965
BMI: The Many Worlds of Music, Summer 1969
Carney, James, Media Kit, 1994-1999
Contacts
Contacts
Contacts
Correspondence from Mimi Clar Melnick, 1955-2012
Correspondence from Mimi Clar Melnick, 1955-2012
Correspondence from Mimi Clar Melnick, 1955-2012
"Dawson's Book Shop: Publisher of Western Americana and Patron of the Book Arts," by Russell Arthur Roberts
Ellington, Duke, 1959, 1999-2000
The Friends of Horace Tapscott Steering Committee, 2008, 2012
"The Gathering, Leimert Park: Roots and Branches of Los Angeles Jazz," by Mimi Melnick, 2002, 2005, 2007
General Correspondence, 1955-1994, 2010
Grant Application, 1990-1991
"I Can Peep Through Muddy Water and Spy Dry Land" and "Boasts in the Blues," by Mimi Clar Melnick, 1967
Jazz Articles by Various Writers, 1955-2007
Jazz Artists, Internet Research, 1985, 2002-2012
Jazz Artists, Magazine Clippings, 1956, 1980-1985, 1997-1999, 2001
"Jazz at Home," by Howard Morehead, 1999 June 21
Jazz Events/Musician Info, 1988, 1996-2012
Jazz Lectures, 1954
Jazz Research Correspondence, 1983
The Jazz Review, "The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz I," by Mimi Clar, November 1958
The Jazz Review, "The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz II," by Mimi Clar, December 1958
The Jazz Review, "Errol Garner," "The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz Melody," "Ray Charles," and "Gospel Singing," by Mimi Clar, January 1959
The Jazz Review, "The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz," "Ray Charles," "George Lewis," "Warne Marsh," "Sy Oliver," and "Joe Turner," by Mimi Clar, February 1959
The Jazz Review, "The Style of Duke Ellington," "John Coltrane," "Miles Davis," and "Red Garland," by Mimi Clar, April 1959
The Jazz Review, "Billy Holiday," "Gospel Singers," and "Langston Hughes, The First Book of Jazz," by Mimi Clar, May 1959
The Jazz Review, "Artie Shaw," "Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, and Joe Turner," and "Gospel Singers," by Mimi Clar, July 1959
The Jazz Review, "Lil Armstrong," "The Gospel Clefs," "The Roberta Martin Singers," and "Knob: Jazz Twenty-Four Hours A Day," by Mimi Clar, August 1959
The Jazz Review, September 1959
The Jazz Review, October 1959
The Jazz Review, "Birdland," "Elizabeth Cotten," and "The Dixie Hummingbirds," by Mimi Clar, November 1959
The Jazz Review, December 1959
The Jazz Review, January 1960
The Jazz Review, "George Shearing," and "Chris Connors, Dakota Stanton, and Annie Ross," by Mimi Clar, May 1960
The Jazz Review, "Lambert-Hendricks-Ross," and "Stan Kenton," by Mimi Clar, June 1960
The Jazz Review, "Billy Taylor," by Mimi Clar, August 1960
The Jazz Review, "Jimmy Rodgers and Ray Charles," by Mimi Clar, November 1960
Jazz Review Correspondence, 1959-1965
Jazz Reviews by Various Writers, 1958-1960, 1966, 2011
Jazz Salon Articles, 2007, 2011
Jazz Salon Artists, Thank-You Notes, 1996-2012
Jazz Salons Correspondence, 1987-1996
Jazz Salons Correspondence, 1997-1999
Jazz Salons Correspondence, 2000-2009
Jazz Salons Correspondence, 2010-2012
Jazz Salon Flyers, 1995-2012
Jazz Salon Maps and Directions
Jazz Salon Notes
Jazz Salons Sign-in Sheets, 1996-2000
Jazz Salons Sign-in Sheets, 2001-2005
Jazz Salons Sign-in Sheets, 2006-2009
Jazz Salons Sign-in Sheets, 2012-2012
Keyboard, October 1981, July 1982
Land, Harold C., Media Kit
Lee, Michael H., Media Kit, 1990-1991, 1995, 1998
Lollipop: Vaudeville Turns with a Fanchon and Marco Dancer, Notes and Correspondence, 2001
Los Angeles Times Administrative Correspondence, 1959-1964
Los Angeles Times Jazz Reviews by Mimi Clar, 1958-1960
Los Angeles Times Jazz Reviews by Mimi Clar, 1961-1962
Los Angeles Times Jazz Reviews by Mimi Clar, 1963
Los Angeles Times Jazz Reviews by Mimi Clar, 1964-1965
Manhole Covers Administrative Correspondence, 1964-1988
Manhole Covers Administrative Correspondence, 1991-2001
Manhole Covers, City of Los Angeles Correspondence, October 1973-October 1984
Manhole Covers, City of Los Angeles Correspondence, November 1984-1990
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Bobbi Mastrangelo, 1984-1988
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Bobbi Mastrangelo, 1989-1994
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Bobbi Mastrangelo, 1995-2004
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Hertha Bauer, 1982-1984
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Hertha Bauer, 1985
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Hertha Bauer, 1986-1993
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Submission Responses, 1974-1986
Manhole Covers, General Correspondence, 1974-1982
Manhole Covers, General Correspondence, 1984
Manhole Covers, General Correspondence, 1985-1989
Manhole Covers, General Correspondence, 1990-1994
Manhole Covers, General Correspondence, 1995
Manhole Covers, General Correspondence, 1996-1999
Manhole Covers, General Correspondence, 2000-2003
Manhole Covers Interviews and Writing Notes, 1973-1986
Manhole Covers Lectures Correspondence, 1975-1986
Manhole Covers, Press Reviews, 1994-2003
Manhole Covers Research Correspondence, 1973-1994
McPhee, Joe, Media Kit, 1998-1999
Miranda, Roberto, Promotion and Research, 1988-2003
Miranda, Roberto, Sheet Music
MIT Press Current Research, 1992-1993
MIT Press Current Research, 1992-1993
Owens, Charlie, 1997-2013
Resumes and Biographical Information
Reviews and Liner Notes, 1958-1960
Sheet Music by Various Artists, 1978, 2006-2011
Union of God's Musicians and Artist Ascension, 1993-2011
Ventura Blvd: Where We Live, "Magic in the Night", August-September 2011
Western Folklore Correspondence, 1958-1964
The World Stage Performance Gallery Presents, "Mimi Melnick, An Oral History Interview", 2009 October 23
Writer's Guild of America Registrations, 1958-1959
Correspondence from Mimi Clar Melnick, 1955-2012
Ellington, Duke
Jazz Articles by Various Writers, 1980-1981, 1989-1999, 2005-2010
Jazz Posters, 2002
Liner Notes, 1959, 1979
Los Angeles Times, Administrative Files, 1961
Los Angeles Times, Jazz Reviews by Mimi Clar
Manhole Covers Administrative Correspondence, 1964-1988
Manhole Covers, Articles in Star Magazine, 1986 November 11
Manhole Covers, City of Los Angeles Correspondence, November 1984-1990
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Bobbi Mastrangelo, 1989-1994
Manhole Covers Correspondence, Hertha Bauer, 1986-1993
Manhole Covers, General Correspondence, 1985-1989
"The Manhole Cover in the Street," Reader's Guide to Los Angeles, 1984 September 28
New Statesman: The Weekend Review, 1959 April 11
Jazz and Blues, Playalong Solos for Clarinet
Lead Sheets and Musical Sketches by Mimi Clar Melnick
Music Book
Sheet Music, Arrangement by Sam Saxe
Sheet Music by Andre Revin
Sheet Music by Art Tatum
Sheet Music by Barclay Allen
Sheet Music by Billy Eckstine
Sheet Music by Billy Taylor, 1954, 1959
Sheet Music by Bud Powell
Sheet Music by Charlie Parker, 1948
Sheet Music by Dave Brubeck, 1951 October 31
Sheet Music by Dizzy Gillespie, 1948, 1950, 1955
Sheet Music by Earl Hines
Sheet Music by Ellington, 1954 May 7
Sheet Music by Ellis Larkin, 1952, 1954
Sheet Music by Errol Garner
Sheet Music by Frank Culley, 1950 June 6
Sheet Music by George Shearing, 1949-1954
Sheet Music by Hadda Brooks
Sheet Music by Hampton Hawes, 1952-1955
Sheet Music by Horace Silver, 1954-1956
Sheet Music by Jerry Wiggins
Sheet Music by Joeff Clarkson
Sheet Music by John Williams, 1955-1956
Sheet Music by Kenny Drew, 1955 November 20
Sheet Music by Mel Powell
Sheet Music by Nat Cole
Sheet Music by Oscar Peterson, 1953-1955
Sheet Music by Pete Johnson
Sheet Music by Pete Jolly
Sheet Music by Russ Freeman, 1953, 1955
Sheet Music by Sam Saxe, 1948-1954
Sheet Music, Jazz Standards, Lead Sheets
Sheet Music, Technical Studies by Sam Saxe
Sheet Music, Technical Studies by Sam Saxe
Sheet Music, Technical Studies by Sam Saxe
A Collection of Thirty-Three Favorite Compositions for the Piano by Frederic Chopin, v. 39, 1916
Complete Works for the Piano: Book Nine Preludes by Frederic Chopin, v.34, 1915
Dizzy Fingers by Zez Confrey
Entertainer's Rag by Jay Roberts
Holiday for Strings by David Rose, 1943
Jazz Hanon by Leo Alfassy, 1980
Little Rock Getaway by Joe Sullivan, 1939
Maple Leaf Rag Piano Solo by Scott Joplin
Novelty Piano Solos by Zez Confrey, 1927-1933
Original Piano Conceptions by Fats Waller, 1920-1948
Piano Variations by Aaron Copland, 1932
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Sixteen Selected Etudes from Opus 100 with Preparatory Exercises by Friedrick Burgmuller, 1930
Various Scores by Thelonious Monk
The Virtuoso Pianist by C. L. Hanon
Research Card File, Jazz and Folk Music Themes
Scrapbook, Jazz Artists
Ark Jazz Salon, Photographic Prints and Negatives, July 2000
Ark Jazz Salon, Photographic Prints and Negatives, July 2000
Central Avenue Sounds Party, Photographic Prints, 1998 March 1
Jazz Musicians, Autographed Photographic Portraits
Jazz Musicians, Autographed Photographic Portraits
Jazz Musicians, Autographed Photographic Portraits
Jazz Musicians, Autographed Photographic Portraits
Jazz Musicians, Autographed Photographic Portraits
Jazz Musicians, Photographic Portraits
Jazz Musicians, Photographic Portraits
Jazz Musicians, Photographic Portraits
Jazz Salons, Photographic Prints, 1996 July 14, 1996 December 12
Jazz Salons, Photographic Prints, 1997 March 9
Jazz Salons, Photographic Prints, 1998 February 1, 1998 July 12
Jazz Salons, Photographic Prints, 1999 August 8,15
Jazz Salons, Photographic Prints, 23 July 2000
Jazz Salons, Photographic Prints, 2001, 2002, 2005
Jazz Salons, Photographic Prints
Jazz Salons, Photographic Prints and Negatives, 2001 June 10
Jazz Salons, Tapscott Party Photographic Prints, 1987 August 21
World Stage, Photographic Prints, 2008 April 11
Jazz Musicians Photographs
Billy Childs at Jazz Salon (VHS), 2000 October 22
Billy Higgins, Salon (VHS), 1997 March 2
Billy Higgins, Salon, Encino House Party (VHS), 1997 March 2
Blue Note (VHS)
Bravo-Monk, Little Jimmy Scot (VHS)
Charles Owens Salon (VHS)
Horace Tapscott, Berlin (VHS)
Horace T. M. Session (VHS)
In Studio (KCOP), KABC-TV (VHS), 1984-1985
Jazz and Poetry in Motion, A Tribute to Mr. Horace Tapscott, Copy 2-Mimi (VHS), 1999 February 6
Mimi (VHS)
Mimi Melnick, Dub of Edited Master (VHS), 1986 December 23
Monk, Straight No Chaser, Gavilian, Dr. Quinn (VHS)
Mucho Media, Dub (VHS), March 1995
Walter Norris Trio (VHS), 1994 September 2-3
Walter Norris, Pianist (VHS), 1994 September 9
Trophy, Your Town's Talent KTTV, Mimi Clar, 1962 November 6
Olivetti Typewriter
Caravan, Un Poco Combo, Atonal, Slow Dahoud, Atonal Blues, Dahoud Experience, Free Combo (audio file), 1990 July 27
Erroll Garner, Other Voices (audio file)
Meditation in A, Free Ballad, Desert Bow, Mimi & Roberto, Juke Box Boogie, St Michael, Faith, Honky Tonk Train (audio file), 1990 November 14
Mimi Matthews, The Lady of Jazz (audio file)
R M Bossa Nova, R M Home (audio file), 1990 November 26, 28
R M, Timekeeping, Free B, Up Tempo Free & Ballad, Free, Family Line (audio file), 1990 October 2-3
Roberto Mimi-Blues, St. Michael, Comping, Congas (audio file), 1990 April 3, 10
The Gathering-Roots and Branches of Los Angeles Jazz (video file), 2005, 2009
Ellington, Duke
Los Angeles Times, Jazz Reviews by Mimi Clar, 1959 September 14