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            Ted Elfstrom fonds
            P0177 · Fonds · 1938, [195-?]-1962, [199-?]

            The fonds contains documentation pertaining to the career of the jazz musician Ted Elfstrom and provides information on the Mart Kenney Orchestra, the Ted Elfstrom Octet, the Montreal Woodwind Chamber Group, Oscar Peterson, and the Montreal Jazz Festival.

            The fonds includes programs, newspaper articles, invitations, audio recordings, and photographs.

            Elfstrom, Ted
            Alex Robertson fonds
            P023 · Fonds · 1853-1988

            Between 1940 and 1986, Alex Robertson collected records. Most of the recordings in the fonds are 78 rpm's pressed in Montreal by Berliner and Compo: Berliner was the first Canadian company to produce records, and Compo was the first to record Canadian Black musicians. The fonds contains a large number of sound recordings that have never had commercial or widespread distribution. The fonds includes about 3,000 pieces of sheet music of various genres, dating from ca 1885 to 1970; about 1,000 pieces have Canadian content. The fonds includes numerous catalogues and promotional pamphlets from record and sheet-music publishing companies, dealers, clubs, and radio stations. Also included are books annotated by Alex Robertson in the course of his disco-graphical research. Alex Robertson's research materials on record labels and series, as well as on Montreal musical activity between 1913 and 1970 are included in the fonds. His extensive correspondence and related newsletters are included. The fonds includes photographs of Alex Robertson with his family; there is also a photograph of Alex Robertson with jazz author George Martin, and several of a reception held in his honor in the Concordia University Archives reading room in 1988.

            The fonds is organized into the following series:
            P0023/A Correspondence
            P0023/B Research on record labels and series
            P0023/C Research on Montreal music activity
            P0023/D Photographs

            Robertson, Alex
            Herb Johnson fonds
            P0088 · Fonds · 1898-1987

            The fonds consists of materials assembled by Herb Johnson. It reflects his career as a musical performer, combo and dance band/orchestra leader, and musicians' union member and executive, as well as his personal interests and personal life.

            The fonds documents the dance band and jazz music scene from the 1930s through the 1980s, primarily in Montreal. It is a valuable source of documentation on the bebop style of jazz that emerged in the 1940s, and of documentation related to the Senior Musicians' Association and Orchestra.

            The fonds consists of manuscript and print music, including arrangements by Herb Johnson; personal correspondence; saxophone and clarinet technique books and articles; books and articles on arranging, harmonizing, and other facets of music; photographs; notebooks; personal financial records; programs, clippings, and other memorabilia; and magazines. The fonds includes sound recordings as well as objects including music portfolios, pocket handkerchiefs, and a record carrying case. There are also union-related correspondence, financial documents, contracts and other documents related to musicians' pay and benefits, founding documents, constitutions and by-laws, questionnaires, ballot papers, agendas, minutes, and address books.

            The fonds is arranged in the following series and sub-series:

            P0088/1 Correspondents
            P0088/1A Family and friends
            P0088/1B Music colleagues
            P0088/1C Personal business correspondents
            P0088/2 Personal files
            P0088/2A Personal interests and personal affairs
            P0088/2B Music industry
            P0088/2C Music technique
            P0088/2D Photographs
            P0088/3 Union activity
            P0088/3A Musicians' Guild of Montreal
            P0088/3B Senior Musicians' Association
            P0088/4 Print and manuscript music
            P0088/5 Technique books, manuals, tutors, methods
            P0088/6 Magazines and promotional literature
            P0088/7 Collection of sound recordings
            P0088/7A Privately recorded sound recordings
            P0088/7B Commercial sound recordings.

            Johnson, Herb
            David (Dave) Clark fonds
            F021 · Fonds · [19--]-2006

            The David Clark fonds provides insight into the career of musician David Clark in the second half of the 20th century. It documents Dave Clark’s professional activity as an instrumentalist, bandleader, arranger and transcriber; and as a teacher. The fonds also documents Dave Clark’s involvement in the Fossils Club of Montreal and serves to document some of the club's musical performances.

            The fonds includes musical scores, sheet music, and song books, covering both classical music and jazz; scripts for plays; programs; sound recordings; plaques; and photographs. In addition to published music, the fonds includes music arranged or transcribed by Dave Clark and other musicians.

            The fonds is organized into the following series:
            F021/A Fossils Club of Montreal
            F021/B Musical scores
            F021/C Sound recordings

            Clark, David
            Kenneth S. Muer collection
            P106 · Collection · [190-]-[194-]

            The collection consists of sheet music for a variety of musical styles.

            Muer, Kenneth S.
            Joe Bell fonds
            P010 · Fonds · 1934-1950, predominantly 1934-1945

            The fonds provides information on jazz music and musicians in Montreal during the 1930s and 1940s.

            The fonds consists of two scrapbooks Joe Bell kept during those years. It contains publicity photographs of orchestras and individual performers, clippings, menus, and cards from various night clubs and ballrooms. The fonds also includes 11 audio discs.

            Bell, Joe
            Al Palmer fonds
            P084 · Fonds · [19--] ; 1936-1971

            The Al Palmer Fonds provides information on Montreal and other cities, as gathered by Al Palmer through his journalistic career between 1940 and 1971.

            The fonds includes thematic files on people and topics that Al Palmer covered in his columns and police chronicles. It contains notes, copies of court records, clippings, programs, brochures, and photographs.

            Palmer, Alan Douglas
            Vic Vogel fonds
            P082 · Fonds · 1901 - 2015

            The fonds provides information on Vic Vogel's musical career. The fonds contains original scores for music composed and arranged by Vic Vogel from the mid-1960s to 2006. Among many other scores, it includes Vogel’s composition for the 1976 Montreal Olympics. It also contains scores by other composers, as well as correspondence, sound recordings, moving images, contracts, financial documents, magazines and other publications, photographs, posters, and newspaper clippings.
            The fonds is divided into the following series :
            P082/A Musical scores
            P082/B Audio-visual material
            P082/C Textual records
            P082/D Graphic material

            Vogel, Vic
            Myron Sutton fonds
            P019 · Fonds · 1908-1945

            The fonds provides an overview of Myron Sutton's musical career in the United States and Canada, particularly Montreal. It documents the careers of the various bands with which Myron Sutton was affiliated, and those he led, including the Royal Ambassadors and the Canadian Ambassadors. It also provides general information on the jazz music scene and Montreal night life during the 1930s.

            The fonds consists of sound recordings and a scrapbook containing correspondence, contracts, programs, press clippings, and photographs.

            Sutton, Myron
            P103 · Collection · [1910]-[195-]

            The collection consists mainly of musical sound recordings in form of discs by various production companies, produced in the first half of the 20th century. Most are jazz, but other styles of music are also represented. The collection is completed by some sheet music, literature, photographs, especially showing John Wilson McConnell, and a microphone.

            McConnell, Wilson Griffith
            John Gilmore fonds
            P004 · Fonds · [ca. 1912?]-2021, predominantly 1981-1983

            The fonds provides information on jazz in Montreal between 1916 and 2007.

            The fonds contains the material John Gilmore gathered for his two books. It contains research notes, sound recordings including interviews with musicians and others, photographs, posters, correspondence, and a manuscript of Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal.

            The fonds is organized in the following series:
            P0004/A Research material
            P0004/B Manuscripts
            P0004/C Reviews
            P0004/D Lectures and interviews

            Gilmore, John
            Mary Morter fonds
            P0239 · Fonds · 1914-2001, predominantly 1969-1975

            The Mary Morter fond contains documents pertaining to theater in Montreal. More specifically, the fonds is composed of materials concerning the Instant Theatre and the Pendulum Theatre, both located in Montreal and founded and run by Mary Morter in the 1960s and 1970s. The fonds provides an overview of the programming at both theatres. It also provides insight into how the theaters were perceived by the public. In addition, the fonds contains a number of documents focusing on the play North American Indian Legends by Pendulum Theatre. Documents created by other theatres located in Montreal or Toronto provide additional insight into the English-speaking theatre scene in those cities in the 20th century.

            The Mary Morter fonds contains theatre programs, photographs, posters, correspondence, magazines, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, a sound recording, and various plays, among other documents.

            Morter, Mary
            Maura McKeon fonds
            P0212 · Fonds · 1918, 1935-1963

            The fonds illustrates theatre life in Montreal from 1918 to 1963, in particular the presentations at His Majesty’s Theatre, later Her Majesty’s Theatre, in Montreal, Quebec.

            The fonds consists of theatre programs from the His Majesty’s Theatre, later known as Her Majesty’s Theatre, Montreal.

            McKeon, Maura
            Dorothy Davis fonds
            P098 · Fonds · 1919-1993

            The fonds provides information on Montreal Children's Theatre and its founders.

            The fonds consists of five scrapbooks including press clippings and articles, as well as photographs, a video cassette of a media interviews with Dorothy Davis [ca. 1983, 1984] and of a report on her death in 1993, and the honourary degrees conferred by Concordia University on Dorothy Davis and Violet Walters in 1984.

            Davis, Dorothy
            Ralph Whims collection
            C012 · Collection · [19--] ; 1928-2017

            The Ralph Whims Collection contains documentation concerning Black History in Montreal; the Negro Community Centre; Union United Church, the Coloured Women’s Club; The Red Feather and the Welfare Federation; Railway Porters; the Elks; the documentary film Show Girls; and Jazz in Montreal. The collection is comprised of articles and clippings; photographs; posters, brochures, and programs; books and magazines; and a videocassette.

            The Ralph Whims Collection is divided into 4 series:
            C012/A Textual records
            C012/B Photographs
            C012/C Books
            C012/D Moving images

            Whims, Ralph
            Nick Morara fonds
            P192 · Fonds · [193-?]-[195-]

            The 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, Nick
            Vernon Isaac fonds
            P228 · Fonds · [193-?]-2000

            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

            Isaac, Vernon
            P078 · Collection · [193-]-[196-]

            Collection provides information on jazz music in Montreal from the 1930s through the 1960s. The collection complements other fonds and collections housed in the Concordia University Archives and Concordia University Library, Special Collections.

            The collection includes swizzle sticks and other memorabilia from Montreal jazz night clubs such as Rockhead's Paradise, the Rainbow Bar Café, and Dinty Moore's. It also contains sound recordings, photographs of Rockhead's Paradise and owner Rufus Rockhead, sheet music, videotape copies of televisions shows on jazz musicians Oliver Jones, Paul Bley, and Oscar Peterson, and a copy of the book Montreal Confidential by Al Palmer.

            Concordia University. Records Management and Archives
            Clyde Duncan Fonds
            P018 · Fonds · [193-]-1986

            The fonds provides information about Clyde Duncan's career as a jazz musician.

            The fonds contains musical engagement contracts (1939-1940), the Canadian Federation of Musicians by-laws (1930), concert programs, press clippings, photographs, and sound recordings.

            Duncan, Clyde
            Peter K. Johnston fonds
            P199 · Fonds · [193- ?]-2005

            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

            Johnston, Peter K.
            Meilan Lam fonds
            P135 · Fonds · 1931-1999

            The fonds provides information on Montreal's Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s, chronicling the lives of three women - Tina Baines Brereton, Bernice Jordan Whims, and Olga Spencer Foderingham - who danced in night clubs such as Rockhead's Paradise, The Terminal, and Café St. Michel.

            The fonds consists of materials gathered, and in some cases created, during the National Film Board of Canada's production of Show Girls / Les Girls. It includes research notes, edited sequences on videotape, video tapes and transcripts of interviews with the film's principals, audio tapes of interviews with various sources, stock footage, shot lists, clippings of night clubs ads, historical reference books, and VHS copies of the documentary.

            Lam, Meilan