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San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation
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ARS.0030
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Description
The collection comprehensively covers the career of Turk Murphy and was assembled primarily
by Jim Goggin and other members of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. Similar
sub-collections of materials about other traditional jazz musicians were added to this core
collection containing items related to Murphy, Lu Watters, and Murphy's side men, such as
William Miskell and Bob Helm, some of whom also had their own bands. The collection includes
over 650 manuscript jazz arrangements (scores and parts) for the Turk Murphy band, musical
arrangements by Lu Watters, and related groups; original transcription discs of unique sound
and video recordings by Turk Murphy, Lu Watters, Kid Ory, and other musicians and bands; 218
loose leaf notebooks of materials compiled by Jim Goggin documenting the careers of Turk
Murphy, Burt Bales, Clancy Hayes, Bob Scobey and similar jazz musicians; hundreds of
recordings in various formats, including lacquer transcription discs, open reel tapes, audio
cassettes, CDs, CD-Roms, and videocassettes; thousands of photographs documenting the career
of Turk Murphy and other West Coast traditional jazz musicians; correspondence and business
records of Murphy and his jazz club, Earthquake McGoon's; and numerous boxes of ephemera,
posters, and realia relating to Earthquake McGoon's and Turk Murphy's performances there. In
total the collection consists of about 300 linear feet of materials comprised of 155 linear
feet of archival materials and 145 linear feet of sound recordings.
Extent
371 box(es)
Restrictions
Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the
creators or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Availability
Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of
intended use. Contact the Archive for assistance.