The fonds consists mainly of recordings of radio broadcasts featuring musical performances by Gordie Fleming and his group. Most were broadcast on Radio-Canada and CBC on Lower Canada Swing, Saturday Set, Les joyeux troubadours, Jazz en liberté and Les fantaisistes.
Fleming, GordieThe fonds relates to Montreal Nightlife and Nick Morara’s career as a chef in Montreal clubs. It illustrates the Montreal clubs and nightlife from the point of view of a non-musician working in the club scene. It also includes information on the Old Lantern Inn.
The fonds includes photographs, newspaper clippings, a club menu, a business card and a fee receipt card.
Morara, NickThe description of this fonds is not available. Please contact Concordia University Libraries Special Collections for more information.
The Peter K. Johnston fonds contains documentation pertaining to the American Jazz musician Harry James (1916-1983) and the Big band era. The fonds primarily documents the musical career of Harry James as bandleader and trumpeter. It also includes information on the Montreal Vintage Music Society (MVMS), and on other jazz musicians, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Metcalf, Oscar Peterson, and Glenn Miller, among many others.
The fonds contains memorabilia, correspondence, magazines, discographies, photographs, newspaper clippings, reference documentation, posters, moving images, and an audio recording, among other material. Some of the documents are arranged in scrapbooks.
The fonds is arranged in the following series :
P0199 / A Harry James
P0199 / B Other Jazz musicians
P0199 / C Peter Johnston as a collector
The materials in the fonds document Vernon Isaac’s life as a jazz musician and the Canadian jazz scene of the 1970s to 1990s. The fonds also contains information about Vernon Isaac’s family.
The fonds includes personal documents, photographs of Vernon Isaac’s family, friends and other performers, press clippings, programs, posters, commemorative plaques, and sound and audiovisual recordings of Vernon Isaac.
The fonds is organized into the following series:
P0228/A. Textual records
P0228/B. Scrapbooks, photo albums and other graphic material
P0228/C Audio-visual material
P0228/D Objects
The David Lee fonds illustrates David Lee’s work as an author as well as the life of Paul Bley. It contains material related to the biography of the Montreal-born jazz pianist Paul Bley (1932-2016), entitled “Stopping Time : Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz” by Paul Bley and David Lee, published by Vehicule Press in 1998.
The fonds includes transcripts of interviews with Paul Bley; manuscripts for the book “Stopping Time : Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz” by Paul Bley and David Lee; correspondence; and photographs, among other documents.
Lee, DavidFrom left to right : Vanessa Schmit-Crann, Eyöla Baker and Paula Dawson
From left to right : Carol Hodge, Graham Cuthbertson, Paula Dawson and Jean Sébastien Poirier.
Photo promoting end-of-year show "Free Fall Slobodan Pad".
Gage Pierre and Annemarie Rued as Oberon and Tatiana during the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the D. B. Clarke Theatre
Lisa Walsh as Alice and Danny Smith.
Director Stephen Snow, King of Hearts Darin Choma and producer Lenore Vosberg prepare for "And Alice Dreams...".
Michelle Girouard and Charles Bender were part of the cast for the show The Nightingale, Concordia Theatre Department's Christmas production.
The Heat Seekers performing at the Hall Building. The musicians are Aaron Mathers, Gemmell, Noubar Karadjian, Bill Welham, Martian Garbulinsky and Tyson Schallmann.
Contemporary dance teacher Jane Oxley teaching students voice/ movement workshops.
Faculty and students of Concordia's Centre for the Arts in Human Development performed "And Alice Dreams...", a musical production loosely based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, was held in Loyola's F.C. Smith Auditorium in June 2000.
Quebec Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault greets March Hare Danny Smith after the performance.