Page Contents 3 minute read.
About
With funding from the Bill and Susan Collins and the Collins-Binkley Foundation, and additional support from 32 Bar Blues Foundation, the Jazz Syndicate is an online research portal providing centralized access to jazz collections of all media types, tracking linkages between related and complementary jazz collections at UNT and elsewhere. It facilitates exploration and scholarly engagement with primary sources in jazz by enabling users to search and browse materials across a wide array of collections. Users will find online access to global jazz resources as well as mechanisms for requesting materials that are restricted due to copyright limitations. Collections documented in the Syndicate range from local historic content from UNT’s own Jazz Studies department to materials about jazz from artists and collectors throughout the world.
News
Chart your own journey
The ability to browse collections from multiple angles, such as format, collector, subject, and artist, creates many paths that will highlight connections between materials in this portal to rare and unique jazz materials in the Music Library. Users can perform targeted or full-text searches that include item descriptions and transcripts of interviews and radio programs or simply browse collections one at a time.
For example, if you’re interested in the work of jazz arranger Marty Paich you can not only discover his work for different bandleaders among the Music Library’s Gene Puerling, Stan Kenton, and Maynard Ferguson, collections but you can also see how that work intersects with other activities and collections. Explore Paich’s legacy through materials such as arrangements by him in concert and recital performances of his works in the UNT Digital Library, recordings of Mel Torme with the Marty Paich orchestra in the Willis Conover Collection, an interview with Johnny Rivers in which he talks about working with Paich in the John Gilliland Collection, and a recording in the Leon Breeden collection of Paich discussing Kenton’s Neophonic Impressions ’65 album. From local legends to global giants, the Syndicate is your passport to jazz adventures!
Get Started Early
- Browse jazz collections in the UNT Digital Library.
- Browse inventories and descriptions of jazz collections in UNT’s Finding Aids Repository.
- Explore Lab ‘67 (pilot)
Contribute
You can help make content available here. Please include “Jazz Syndicate” in the notes field.
