Freddie Green Papers
name: label: Musician
content: Green, Freddie, 1911-1987
label: Names
content: Count Basie Orchestra
label: Names
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
topic: label: Topic
content: Awards
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content: Concerts -- Programs
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content: Contracts
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content: Guitarists
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content: Jazz
label: Topic
content: Jazz musicians
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Alfred Green, son of Freddie Green, 2017.
creator: label: Musician
content: Green, Freddie, 1911-1987
setName: label: See more items in
content: Freddie Green Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection documents Green's life and work, especially his nearly fifty years as rhythm guitarist with Count Basie's orchestra.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-2006
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1453
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Articles
label: Type
content: Audiotapes
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content: Business records
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content: Color photographs
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content: Letters (correspondence)
label: Type
content: Music
label: Type
content: Obituaries
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Articles
label: Genre/Form
content: Audiotapes
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Color photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Letters (correspondence)
label: Genre/Form
content: Music -- Manuscripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Obituaries
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: The collection documents Green's life and work, especially his nearly fifty years as rhythm guitarist with Count Basie's orchestra.  Included in the papers are compositions, some published, some not, some merely ideas for songs, some sent to Green by others with hopes of their becoming included in the Basie play book.  Some compositions are recorded in numerous music composition books.  Also included in the collection are photographs, of Green, of his family and friends, and especially of Count Basie and the band on tour and in performance.  Audiovisual materials include reel to reel recordings and one audio cassette.  Additional materials include a scrapbook of clippings, mostly relating to Basie and his orchestra; letters, mostly of a business nature, 1980s; loose articles and clippings from the 1970s and 1980s; concert programs, including one posthumous one from 2006; awards; and miscellaneous contracts and business records.