Writings
name: label: Collection Interviewee
content: Alexander, Van, 1915-
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Alpert, Trigger, 1916-
label: Collection Creator
content: Beneke, Tex
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Bernardi, Ernani
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Bernhart, Milt, 1926-2004
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Camaratta, Tutti, 1913-2005
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Cecil, Chuck, 1922-
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Chiacco, Bob
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Childers, Buddy, 1926-2007
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Comstock, Frank
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Costanzo, Jack, 1922-
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Cron, Rosalind
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Duncan, Cleveland
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Hanna, Jake
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Heidt, Horace, Jr.
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Hillman, Roc, 1910-
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Jeffries, Herb
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Jerome, Henry
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Kahn, Donald, 1918-2008
label: Collection Creator
content: Kahn, Gus, 1886-1941
label: Collection Interviewee
content: King, Dick
label: Collection Interviewee
content: King, Donna
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Kitchens, Mildred
label: Collection Creator
content: Knowles, Legh
label: Collection Interviewee
content: LaPorta, John
label: Collection Creator
content: Leonard, Jack
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Malone, Raymond J.
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Mandel, Johnny
label: Collection Interviewee
content: May, Billy
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Miller, Bill
label: Collection Interviewee
content: O'Neill, Dolores, 1917-
label: Collection Creator
content: Purtill, Maurice
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Rey, Alvino, 1908-2004
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Robertson, Alastair
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Simon, George Thomas
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Sheils, Tom
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Sesma, Chico
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Sevano, Nick
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Schwartz, Peggy
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Spear, Sam
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Stafford, Jo
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Starr, Kay
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Stevens, Garry
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Stone, Butch
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Tilton, Martha
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Tracey, Sheila
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Tucker, Orrin
label: Collection Donor
content: Tumpak, John R., 1940-
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Wain, Bea
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Wilson, Gerald, 1918-
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Whiting, Margaret
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Zarchy, Zeke, 1915-2009
setName: label: See more items in
content: John R. Tumpak Big Band Oral History Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995-2014, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1215, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Primarily includes articles written by Tumpak for several music related publications. In addition, his book, "When Swing Was the Thing: Personality Profiles of the Big Band Era," published by Marquette University Press is also found among these materials.  The materials are arranged in chronoloical order.