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Frank Kofsky Audio and Photography Collection of the Jazz and Rock
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MS.312
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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Frank Kofsky Audio and Photography Collection of the Jazz and Rock
Movement
Creator:
Kofsky, Frank
Identifier/Call Number: MS.312
Physical Description:
9 Linear Feet
9 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1965-1982
Date (bulk): 1966-1968
Language of Material:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright for this collection resides with the Regents of the University of California. The
publication or use of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use for
research or educational purposes requires written permission from the copyright owner. UCSC
Special Collections and Archives can grant permission to publish materials to which it holds
the copyright.
Frank Kofsky Audio and Photography Collection of the Jazz and Rock Movement. MS 312.
Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa
Cruz.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Bonnie Kofsky, 2007.
Alternative Form of Material Available
Images from this collection are available through UCSC Library Digital Collections.
This collection includes photographs and audio recordings of interviews with renowned jazz
and rock musicians, created by jazz scholar Frank Kofsky in the late 1960s. Included are
photographic prints, contact sheets, negatives, and 35mm slides of such recording artists as
John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ornette Coleman, and Archie Shepp. The
collection also contains approximately 50 audio recordings of interviews Kofsky conducted
with these musicians and more, each approximately 30 to 90 minutes in length. A small number
of typescripts and clippings of Kofsky's writings is also included.
Recordings of Kofsky's interviews and lectures are available via the Library Catalog.
A full listing of the print photographs in this collection can be found in the
Frank
Kofsky Photograph inventory.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Rock music -- 1961-1970
Jazz -- 1961-1970