Scope and Contents From the Collection: In 1998, the Stan Getz Library at Berklee College of Music established an oral history program devoted to documenting the lives of musicians who have made significant contributions to the music world as well as the Berklee College of Music community. The oral history project aims to chronicle the rich and diverse history of Berklee and Boston music from those who have lived, shaped and defined it. The interviewees discuss their time spent at Berklee College of Music; their performances in...

Interview Summary Andy McGhee, saxophonist and Berklee faculty member, discusses his early music years playing for the bands of Fat Man Robinson, Lionel Hampton, and Woody Herman; touring internationally in Europe and Japan; his transition to teaching and his hiring at Berklee School of Music (later College); and his thoughts on Berklee founder Lawrence Berk. He also discusses his teaching methods and what he finds important for students, in contrast to how current students approach learning music. He also...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection comprises pedagogical arrangements created and/or compiled by pianist, Berklee faculty member, and Berklee alumnus Dean Earl ('56) as teaching aids for Piano department courses in harmony and piano performance. The arrangements are primarily popular music and jazz standards, as well as some musical exercises.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection comprises pedagogical arrangements created and/or compiled by pianist, Berklee faculty member, and Berklee alumnus Dean Earl ('56) as teaching aids for Piano department courses in harmony and piano performance. The arrangements are primarily popular music and jazz standards, as well as some musical exercises.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection comprises pedagogical arrangements created and/or compiled by pianist, Berklee faculty member, and Berklee alumnus Dean Earl ('56) as teaching aids for Piano department courses in harmony and piano performance. The arrangements are primarily popular music and jazz standards, as well as some musical exercises.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection comprises pedagogical arrangements created and/or compiled by pianist, Berklee faculty member, and Berklee alumnus Dean Earl ('56) as teaching aids for Piano department courses in harmony and piano performance. The arrangements are primarily popular music and jazz standards, as well as some musical exercises.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection comprises pedagogical arrangements created and/or compiled by pianist, Berklee faculty member, and Berklee alumnus Dean Earl ('56) as teaching aids for Piano department courses in harmony and piano performance. The arrangements are primarily popular music and jazz standards, as well as some musical exercises.

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The photos in this album are all reprints and enlargements from photos found throughout the other binders. Most photos have typed up identifying information attached to them. The contents of the photos vary, but generally all have important and significant members of or visitors to the Berklee community. There are some reprints of "BT" (Berklee Today) and event fliers as well.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection comprises pedagogical arrangements created and/or compiled by pianist, Berklee faculty member, and Berklee alumnus Dean Earl ('56) as teaching aids for Piano department courses in harmony and piano performance. The arrangements are primarily popular music and jazz standards, as well as some musical exercises.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Donald Bacon papers represent the work of journalist and photographer Donald Bacon, who documented the jazz scene in New England between 1970 and 1997. The collection includes articles, reviews, clippings, promotional material, programs, and flyers created and compiled by Bacon; incoming and outgoing correspondence to jazz musicians, agents, and other correspondents; photographs of jazz musicians; and recordings of interviews with musicians and jazz concerts on audio cassette....