Business Records

Materials relate primarily to the Duke Ellington Orchestra. These materials include contracts, band itineraries, and employee records, royalty statements, paid bills, balance statements, recording sessions and handwritten logs on company letterhead, internal revenue documents, banking statements, copyright information, payroll and fan mail. There also is information relating to the J. E. Daisy Corporation, Mercer Records, American Federation of Musicians, American Guild of Actors and Composers, Jazz Press, Incorporated, Riverside Records, Incorporated, Tempo Music, Incorporated, Associated Booking Corporation, Ellington Productions, Incorporated, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, Fantasy Record Company and Willard Alexander, Incorporated. The materials are arranged in chronological order.