Allison Miner papers, 1971-1995 | Hogan Jazz Archive

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Collection Overview

Title: Allison Miner papers, 1971-1995

ID: HJA/MS 013

Primary Creator: Miner, Allison (1949-1995)

Extent: 10.66 Linear Feet

Arrangement: The collection is arranged by format and size. Boxes 1-3 contain reel-to-reel tapes. Audio cassettes and VHS tapes can be found in box 4. Business files, correspondence, interview transcripts and clippings are housed in boxes 5-7. Box 7 also contains periodicals. Oversize materials are in box 8 and all duplicate materials are in box 9.

Subjects: New Orleans (La) -- Music., Professor Longhair, 1918-1980

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Allison Miner papers span the years 1971-1995. The collection features business and financial files pertaining to New Orleans blues singer and pianist, Professor Longhair, whose career Miner managed from the late 1970s until his death in 1980. It also includes research materials for a biography she intended to pen and publish about him.

Collection Historical Note

Allison Miner (1949-1995) moved to New Orleans from Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1968 and quickly emerged as a positive force on the local music scene. Most notably, she helped found the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – Jazz Fest - and its archival wing, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Archive. She also helped bring Professor Longhair back into the musical limelight, kick-starting and managing his extraordinary “second career,” which had yet to peak at the time of his death in 1980. Miner had intended to be Professor Longhair’s biographer, but all plans were cut short by her own untimely death in 1995. Though her accomplishments were many, and a wide variety of referential materials are preserved in her collection, it is her work with Professor Longhair that the Allison Miner Collection most thoroughly chronicles.

Subject/Index Terms

New Orleans (La) -- Music.
Professor Longhair, 1918-1980

Administrative Information

Repository: Hogan Jazz Archive

Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

[Box 1],
[Box 2],
[Box 3],
[Box 4],
[Box 5],
[Box 6],
[Box 7],
[Box 8],
[Box 9],
[Oversize folder 1: Assorted posters; layout graphics for Professor Longhair Foundation brochure],
[Oversize folder 2: Oversized Professor Longhair honoraria],
[Oversize folder 3: Oversized Tipitina's advertising flyers],
[All]

Box 4

Contains 44 cassette tapes and 3 VHS tapes, labeled as noted

Folder 1: Fess on Honky Tonk Radio London, 3/26/1978
Folder 2: Tipitina's, 6/30/77
Folder 3: Professor Longhair with band, Mosebache, Sweden, March 1979
Folder 4: Mosebache Prof. Longhair, 3/30/1979
Folder 5: Prof. Longhair Tipitina's, 6/10/78
Folder 6: Fess at Tipitina's, 10/28/79
Folder 7: Fess at Tipitina's Mardi Gras, 2/24/79
Folder 8: Radio Bremen Mix
Folder 9: Dave Bartholomew, 5/2/88
Folder 10: WRUW-FM Allison's Prof. Longhair Show Cleveland, Ohio, 12/16/1985
Folder 11: New York Portable & Snooks cuts, 4/10/1972
Folder 12: NY Portable, 4/8/72 - 4/9/72
Folder 13: New York Portable, 4/9/1972
Folder 14: Interview w/ Fess, 3/11/79
Folder 15: Interview w/ Fess; Interview w/ Bo Dollis WTUL, 3/11/79; Feb. 1979
Folder 16: Lund/
Folder 17: Professor Longhair with Alfred "Live" at the Childe Herald, 2/1978
Folder 18: Professor Longhair Obit. ATC, 1/31/80
Folder 19: Mosebache - Wed. #1
Folder 20: Mardi Gras M<ambo at the Boarding House, San Francisco
Folder 21: Professor Longhair & the Blues Scholars rehearsal
Folder 22: Allen Toussain interviewed by Allison Miner at Seasaint Studio, 6/29/90
Folder 23: Jack Dupre Interview, 5/9/90
Folder 24: Fess Project Interviews: Alice Byrd; Cosimo Matassa, 4/27/88; 4/28/88
Folder 25: Fess LP
Folder 26: Fess - 501
Folder 27: Fess at Rosy's, 3/1977
Folder 28: Professor Longhair, WCPN, Journey Into Jazz, 1987
Folder 29: Professor Longhair 1 Grand Ljungby, Sweden
Folder 30: Professor Longhair 2 Grand Ljungby, Sweden
Folder 31: Fess - Rivers; Kid Thomas Valentine at C.A.C., 1/2/1982
Folder 32: Wm Byrd Interview: Interview with Professor Longhair's paternal uncle at his home.
Folder 33: Professor Longhair mixes - Curtom
Folder 34: Fess at Rosy's, 8/1978
Folder 35: Prof. Longhair, House party N.O. Style
Folder 36: Quinn Mary, Linder and Paul Maucathy (sic) Prof. Longhair Side A
Folder 37: Professor Longhair Village Gate, 5/20/79
Folder 38: Interview with Alice Byrd, 6/15/80
Folder 39: Fess - Bogalusa Gig, 11/15/75
Folder 40: Professsor Longhair WCPN - 1987 Journey into Jazz
Folder 41: A. Miner WWOZ Radio Show 1980 - Professor Longhair
Folder 42: "Richard", 2/90
Folder 43: Professor Longhair, SS President, National Public Radio, 4/27/79
Folder 44: Garden Stage, Nice, France, 7/1978
Folder 45: Allison Miner Interviews
Folder 46: Allison Miner, 1/11/95
Folder 47: Allison Miner Last

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