New Orleans Jazz Museum
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The New Orleans Jazz Museum is located in New Orleans , Louisiana, USA. The formerly independent collection is now part of the Louisiana State Museum. It is located at the US Mint at 400 Esplanade Avenue in the historic French Quarter .
history
Plans for a museum about the history of New Orleans jazz began around 1950 on the initiative of a group of jazz music collectors and jazz fans of the New Orleans Jazz Club, founded in 1949. The key characters were Edmond “Doc” Souchon , Myra Menville and Helen Arlt. The museum opened at 1017 Dumaine Street in the French Quarter in 1961 under the direction of curator Clay Watson. The original location for the collection is now part of the Hotel St. Pierre and reminds of this story with a historical sign.
In 1969 the museum moved to the Royal Sonesta Hotel. Another four years later, the museum moved to a new address at 833 Conti Street when a new owner took over the Sonesta Hotel in the 1970s. Soon after the move, the museum went bankrupt and had to close. On September 15, 1977, the entire collection was donated to the state of Louisiana and named the Louisiana State Museum's Jazz Collection. At the beginning of the 1980s, part of the collection was exhibited on the second floor of the US Mint under the direction of curator Don Marquis. Today the New Orleans Jazz Museum is a permanent part of the mint.
In 2005, the collection was severely damaged in Hurricane Katrina . Since the US mint reopened in 2008, the collection has been shown in changing exhibitions. There are currently plans to convert the entire mint into a New Orleans Jazz Museum.
Mission statement
The museum has set itself the task of celebrating the history of jazz music in all its diversity with the help of dynamic, interactive exhibitions, research facilities, programs and concerts for all generations. The New Orleans Jazz Museum is designed to show musicians and music fans from around the world the ongoing cultural renaissance of the city of New Orleans. The museum's aim is to explore America's unique musical art form in the city where jazz was born.
The museum aims to celebrate and convey the history of jazz music in its birthplace and to bring music lovers together about jazz music, whether they come from the New Orleans neighborhood of Treme or from abroad.
Current status
Collections
The museum's entire holdings contain all of the materials from the New Orleans Jazz Club collections, which have come together over a period of several decades. These include the world's largest
Collection of jazz instruments and other valuable exhibits, photos and ephemera from famous jazz musicians. The exhibition shows, for example, Louis Armstrong's first cornet and presents the world's first jazz recording from 1917. There are also trumpets, cornets, trombones, clarinets and saxophones by jazz stars such as Bix Beiderbecke , Edward “Kid” Ory , Goerge Lewis , Sidney Bechet and Dizzie Gillespie were played. The museum collection also includes
12,000 photos of the early jazz years, recordings in various formats, etc. a. 4000 78rpm records from 1905 to the mid-1950s, several thousand long-playing and 45rpm records and around 1400 tape recordings; also posters, paintings and drawings, hundreds of ragtime sheet music from the late 19th century to pop songs from the 1940s and 50s, many of them first editions that later became standards. The collection also includes several hundred film rolls from concerts and music clubs, funerals with live music, parades and festivals as well as hundreds of individual pieces and building plans for important jazz venues. Letters, photos and interviews are also available to researchers and music historians for research (by appointment only).
Exhibitions
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The museum focuses on the birth of the music form, its history and legacy, and points to the enduring relevance of jazz. It has temporary exhibitions and is currently in the process of expanding. The future exhibition rooms will have a visitor center, a permanent exhibition, classrooms for further education and a gallery for changing exhibitions, as well as four interactive exhibitions, in which visitors can play jazz music themselves, on around 740 square meters.
live concerts
The museum also hosts “Music in the US Mint,” a program of regular concerts in an intimate concert hall on the third floor. The concerts bring visitors closer to the diversity and breadth of jazz music and illustrate the mission of the jazz museum. The museum also hosts several annual festivals, including a. the French Quarter Fest, Satchmo Fest, Downriver Fest, Creole Tomato Fest, International Guitar Fest, Danny Barker Fest, etc.
further education
The museum also offers education and training programs for all ages. The museum offers music experts and historians access to a first-class collection for research purposes.
References
- Halsey, William Darach (1986). Collier's Encyclopdia, with Bibliography and Index. PF Collier p. 439.
- Bush, Tori. "The New Orleans Jazz Museum." July 12, 2017.
- website
Further literature
- New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album , by Al Rose and Edmond Souchon, 3rd Edition, Louisiana State University Press, 1984.