You can access the Gillespie U.S. State Department Tour scrapbooks via JSTOR by using the links below. If you are off-campus, you will be asked to authenticate through the proxy server. Since these are high-resolution files, downloading them is the easiest way to work with them.
Text and liner notes of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Information about jazz records, bandleaders and recording sessions: leader/group name; album title; musicians, with instruments played; location and date of recording session; tune names, including "matrix" and release numbers.
Includes: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. These may be searched together or individually. Grove Music Online contains the following important music reference sources: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
