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| Title: | Jazz Institute of Chicago. DeMicheal, Don. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1962-1997 |
| Size: | 3.25 linear feet (6 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Don DeMicheal, vibraphonist, music journalist, and critic. The Don DeMicheal Papers contain articles, book reviews, and liner notes written by DeMicheal as well as catalogs and discographies, jazz periodicals, a record journal, and other publications. |
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Don DeMicheal was born in Louisville, KY in 1928. DeMicheal was co-leader of the Don DeMicheal-Chuck Hedges Swingtet in which he played vibraphone, and a drummer in the Hot Three with pianist Art Hodes and clarinetist Kenny Davern. DeMicheal helped to bring Chicago jazz to New York City when he played with Hodes and Wild Bill Davison at the Goin' to Chicago Kool (Newport) Jazz Festival which took place at Carnegie Hall in 1981.
From 1961-1967, DeMicheal was the editor-in-chief of Down Beat magazine, where as a journalist interviewed prominent jazz figures such as Miles Davis and John Coltrane. DeMicheal also was president of the Jazz Institute of Chicago from 1974-1978 and as program chair in 1979, he spear-headed the first free Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park.
DeMicheal also wrote about jazz, including coauthoring a book, A Manual for the Modern Drummer and editing several trade magazines. Until his death, he was the editor of Plate World magazine.
DeMicheal died in 1982 at the age of 53.
The Jazz Institute of Chicago Don DeMicheal Papers are divided into three series: Series I, Personal; Series II, Catalogs and Discographies; and Series III, Publications. The papers contain articles, a book review, and liner notes written by DeMicheal as well as catalogs and discographies, jazz periodicals,a record journal, membership lists, and other publications.
Series I, Personal, contains writings by DeMicheal, membership lists, and an illustration. The book review is of Whitney Balliett's Alec Wilder and his Friends and the liner notes are for Walt Dickerson's To My Queen Revisited and Warren Kime's Jazz. DeMicheal wrote the biography and notes on the music of Red Norvo for Time-Life Records’ Giants of Jazz. Articles and books written by DeMicheal highlight jazz musicians such as Stan Getz and Paul Desmond. The illustration is of various jazz musicians. Also included are membership lists for the Chicago Federation of Musicians.
Series II, Catalogs and Discographies, contains various jazz record catalogs and discographies.
Series III, Publications, contains books, magazines, a pamphlet, jazz periodicals and a record journal. "Hot Jazz" is a pamphlet published for the Discographical Society. There are various books on jazz and blues, including Basic Jazz on Long Play, John Lucas; Jazz, Andre Francis; New Orleans Blues, Marty Most; The Poetry of the Blues, Samuel Charters; The Sound, Ross Russell; and This is Our Music, John Sinclair. Les Cahier du Jazz is in French and Schwarzer Gesang II: Blues is in German and English. Oversize publications are listed last and include jazz periodicals, Scholastic Roto, and Specifying Engineering.
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Series I: Personal |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Article, "A Day in the New Lives of Two Russian Defector-Jazz Musicians," undated |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Article, "A Day with Music Greats at WTTW," 1975 |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Article, "Gene Lees: Cavalier of the Month," 1968 |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Article, "A Long Look at Stan Getz," undated |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Book Review, "Alec Wilder and his Friends," undated |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Chicago Federation of Musicians, Membership List, 1957 |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Chicago Federation of Musicians, Membership List, 1958 |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Giants of Jazz: Red Norvo, 1980 |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | Illustration, Modern Jazzmen, undated |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | Liner Notes, 1979 |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | Manuscript, "Paul Desmond," undated |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Manuscript, "Yearbook," 1979 |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | Notes on the History of Recording, undated |
Series II: Catalogs and Discographies |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | Chess Checker LP Catalog, 1968 |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | Discography, Art Tatum and Bud Powell, 1961 |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | Discography, Big Band, Vol. 1, 1965 |
| Box 1 Folder 17 | Discography, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, 1961 |
| Box 1 Folder 18 | Discography, Charlie Barnet, 1965 |
| Box 1 Folder 19 | Discography, Dizzy Gillespie, 1961 |
| Box 1 Folder 20 | Discography, Duke Ellington, 1964 |
| Box 1 Folder 21 | Discography, Duke Ellington’s Story on Records, 1925-1931, 1966 |
| Box 1 Folder 22 | Discography, Hot Lips Page, 1961 |
| Box 1 Folder 23 | Discography, Jay Jay Johnson, 1962 |
| Box 1 Folder 24 | Discography, Les Brown, 1965 |
| Box 1 Folder 25 | Discography, Nat "King" Cole, 1965 |
| Box 1 Folder 26 | Discography, Stan Kenton, 1959 |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Discography, Stan Kenton on Capitol, 1966 |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Discography, Woody Herman Vol. 3, 1959-1965 |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Index to Jazz, Vol. 3, 1947 |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Jazz Catalog, Vol. 6, 1965 |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Jazz Catalog, Vol. 7, 1966 |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Jazz Catalog, Vol. 9-10, 1970 |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Jazz Discography, 1958 |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Jazz Discography: Additions and Corrections, 1944 |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Jazz Katalog, 1962 |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | The Jazz Record Catalog, 1962 |
Series III: Publications |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | Basic Jazz on Long Play, 1954 |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | Coda, 1973 |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | Down Beat Jazz Record Reviews, 1958 |
| Box 3 Folder 6 | Down Beat Jazz Record Reviews, 1960 |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | "Hot Jazz," 1947 |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Kings of Jazz: Bessie Smith, 1961 |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | Kings of Jazz: Bix Beiderbecke, 1961 |
| Box 3 Folder 10 | Kings of Jazz: Charlie Parker, 1961 |
| Box 3 Folder 11 | Kings of Jazz: Dizzy Gillespie, 1961 |
| Box 3 Folder 12 | Kings of Jazz: Duke Ellington, 1961 |
| Box 3 Folder 13 | Kings of Jazz: Fats Waller, 1961 |
| Box 4 Folder 1 | Kings of Jazz: King Oliver, 1961 |
| Box 4 Folder 2 | Kings of Jazz: Louis Armstrong, 1961 |
| Box 4 Folder 3 | Les Cahiers du Jazz, 1963 |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Les Cahiers du Jazz, 1965 |
| Box 4 Folder 5 | Les Cahiers du Jazz, 1966 |
| Box 4 Folder 6 | Jazz, 1960 |
| Box 4 Folder 7 | The Jazz Cats, 1960 |
| Box 4 Folder 8 | Just Jazz 3, 1959 |
| Box 4 Folder 9 | Negro Digest, 1961 |
| Box 4 Folder 10 | New Orleans Blues, 1964 |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | The Poetry of the Blues, 1963 |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | Schwarzer Gesang II: Blues, 1962 |
| Box 5 Folder 3 | The Sound,1962 |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | This is Our Music, 1965 |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | Down Beat NAMM Daily, 1962-1965 |
| Box 6 Folder 2 | Down Beat NAMM Daily, 1966-1967 |
| Box 6 Folder 3 | International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Journal, 1978-1980 |
| Box 6 Folder 4 | Radio Free Jazz, 1979 |
| Box 6 Folder 5 | Scholastic Roto, 1967-1968 |
| Box 6 Folder 6 | Specifying Engineering, 1967-1997 |