Navroze Contractor Photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Contractor, Navroze
label: Names
content: Keystone Korner (San Francisco, Cal.).
label: Names
content: Bang, Billy (musician)
label: Names
content: Bridgewater, Cecil (musician)
label: Names
content: Hill, Calvin (musician)
label: Names
content: Jarrett, Keith (musician)
label: Names
content: Knepper, Jimmy (musician)
label: Names
content: Mangelsdorf, Albert (musician)
label: Names
content: Moore, Eddie (musician)
label: Names
content: Roach, Max, 1924-2007
label: Names
content: Rollins, Sonny (musician)
label: Names
content: Shaw, Woody (musician)
label: Names
content: White, Michael (musician)
place: label: Place
content: California -- San Francisco
topic: label: Topic
content: Jazz musicians -- United States
label: Topic
content: Jazz -- 1970-2000
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by DEN Productions, through Navroze Contractor, February 1, 1997.
creator: label: Creator
content: Contractor, Navroze
setName: label: See more items in
content: Navroze Contractor Photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Black-and-white photographic prints depicting jazz musician Eddie Moore and musicians who played in tribute to Moore that include Billy Bang, Cecil Bridgewater, Calvin Hill, Keith Jarrett, Jimmy Knepper, Albert Mangelsdorf, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Woody Shaw, and Michael White. Many of the photographs were taken at San Francisco's Keystone Korner, a popular jazz venue in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Navroze Contractor is a highly acclaimed cinematographer and photographer.  He studied painting and photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, film direction at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune, cinematography under master director of photography, Laszlo Kovacs, at Rockport, Maine, and video production at Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.  Contractor=s feature film credits include  Duvidha (1972, directed by Mani Kaul), 22nd June, 1897 (1979, directed by Nachiket Patwardhan), Percy (1989, directed by Pervez Merwanji), Hun Hunshi Hunshilal (Love In The Time Of Malaria) (1991, directed by Sanjiv Shah) and Devara Kadu (1992, directed by Pattabhi Rama Reddy).  In addition to his professional interests, Contractor is an avid aficionado of jazz performed in both the United States and India.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978-1995
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Collection donated to National Museum of American History February 1, 1997.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0569
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographic prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.  Arranged alphabetically by subject.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by NMAH Staff, undated.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographic prints -- Silver gelatin -- 1950-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The Navroze Contractor Photograph Collection consists of twenty-three black and white photographic prints depicting jazz drummer Eddie Moore (1940-1989) performing in California and India, musicians who played with Moore, and musicians who performed a 1995 tribute concert to Moore in Oakland, California.  In addition there are photographs of Moore=s family that were taken at their Farallones Street home in San Francisco, California.

The collection contains unmounted 16x20 photographic prints.  Interesting musicians in this collection include Eddie Moore, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, and Woody Shaw.  Other photographs of interest are those taken in San Francisco at Keystone Korner, which was one of the most important Awest coast@ jazz venues in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s.  The photographs are organized in alphabetical order by performers last name.