Don Ewell Collection | Hogan Jazz Archive

By Samantha Bruner

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Collection Overview

Title: Don Ewell Collection

ID: HJA/MS 009

Primary Creator: Ewell, Don

Extent: 0.0

Date Acquired: 01/16/2007

Languages: English, Japanese

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, LP records, performance cassette tapes, books, and other papers of Don Ewell.

Administrative Information

Repository: Hogan Jazz Archive

Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

[Box 1: Books],
[Box 2: CDs and Cassette Tapes],
[Box 3: Reel-to-Reel Tapes],
[Box 4: Reel-to-Reel Tapes and Video Cassettes],
[Box 5: Sheet Music],
[Box 6: Correspondence, 1945-2004],
[Box 7: Vertical Files],
[Box 8: Records],
[Box 9: Records],
[All]

Box 5: Sheet Music

Items relating to the Asia Tour filed with that collection. Items which occur as attachments to correspondence have been filed with their respective letters.

Folder 3: Bechet Sidney

Item 1: The Twenty-Third Psalm: Printed. Pages missing.

Folder 4: Ewell, Don

All pieces are handwritten.

Item 1: Blame it on the Blues
Item 2: Meat Rack Blues
Item 3: Rioter Blues
Item 4: Take it in Stride
Item 5: Wallerin’ Around

Folder 5: Ewell, Don, Incomplete works

All are handwritten.

Item 1: Clarinet
Item 2: Stomp Henry Lee
Item 3: South Side Chicago

Folder 6: Morton, Jelly Roll

Printed.

Item 1: Big Fat Ham, 1956
Item 2: Finger Buster
Item 3: Frog-I-More Rag, 1947
Item 4: If You Knew (How I Love You), 1938
Item 5: My Home Is In a Southern Town, 1938
Item 6: Sweet Substitute, 1938
Item 7: The Crave, 1950
Item 8: The Miserere, 1949
Item 9: The Naked Dance, 1950
Item 10: Why?: A Musical Interrogation, 1938
Item 11: Winin’ Boy Blues, 1950

Folder 7: Set Lists / Key Signatures

Folder 8: Various Composers

Item 1: Jonatha: Handwritten. Composer's name illegible.
Item 2: Ruby: Printed. Heinz Roemheld and Mitchell Parish.
Item 3: Hilarity Rag: Printed. Composed by James Scott.
Item 4: The Sheik of Araby: Printed. Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler and Harry B. Smith composers.

Item 1: Black Binder, Unlabeled

Contains hand written pages of sheet music.

Item 2: The Compositions of Don Ewell

Transcribed by Ray Smith. Bound in book format. Handwritten.

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