Object Details
Collection Creator
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Blake, Eubie (James Herbert), 1883-1983
Darensbourg, Joe, 1906-1985
Davison, Bill
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Garland, Ed
Collection Collector
Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007
Collection Donor
Levin, Lucille
Collection Creator
Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941
Wilson, Buster
Collection Citation
Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection, 1880-2010, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scope and Content Note
Contains the more than 5,000-page manuscript originally collected by Charles B. Anderson and given to Levin. The Fake Book, musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn and perform new songs, includes the basic melody line, basic chords and occasionally lyrics of over 5,000 songs. Featured composers within the book are Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael, and Duke Ellington among many others. Charles B. Anderson also collected and passed on to Levin a list of the composer names of every song Bessie Smith recorded as found in Edward Brooks' the Bessie Smith Companion: A Critical and Detailed Appreciation of the Recordings. The Fake Book is arranged by page numbers with a partial index of the Bessie Smith materials at the beginning.
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Date
undated
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.1222, Subseries 7.3
Type
Archival materials
Collection Rights
Reproduction restricted due to copyright or trademark. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Restrictions
The collection is open for research. Only reference copies of audiovisual materials may be used.
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Record ID
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