Realizing that they had amassed a huge collection of important artifacts of the jazz revival, and hoping to ensure their preservation, The San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation (SFTJF) transferred 750 linear feet of materials to Stanford's music library in 2009. Fundraising to digitize the SFTJF’s most historically significant recordings, photographs and documents began in 2014, and digitization was begun in 2016. The process of organizing and digitizing them is finally complete and we are delighted to share with you the result of their efforts.
An exhibit titled "The Great Jazz Revival" has been added to the digital collections of the Stanford University Libraries and is now available to the online public for research and enjoyment. The material amassed by the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Society includes photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, audio, videos, personal papers, scrapbooks, and sheet music belonging to Turk Murphy, Lu Watters, and first generation jazz pioneers like Bunk Johnson, Pops Foster, Eubie Blake, Darnell Howard, Earl Hines, Bob Helm, Sid LeProtti and
many others.
New Documentary Fil
