John Levy Enterprises, Incorporated
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Adderley, Cannonball
label: Collection Performer
content: Adderly, Nat, 1931-2000
label: Collection Performer
content: Horn, Shirley, 1934-
label: Collection Donor
content: Levy, Devra Hall
label: Collection Creator
content: Levy, John, 1912-2012
label: Collection Vocalist
content: Lincoln, Abbey, 1930 -
label: Collection Performer
content: Mbulu, Letta
label: Collection Performer
content: Montgomery, Wes, 1925-1968
label: Collection Singer
content: Wilson, Nancy, 1937-
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content: John and Devra Hall Levy Collection
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content: John and Devra Hall Levy Collection / Series 2: Business Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1957-2007, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1221, Subseries 2.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes materials documenting the activities of John Levy's first business, John Levy Enterprises, Incorporated, a company which provided personal management services to various musicians. Levy ended his own career as a professional musician to pursue the personal management of other artists in 1951. John Levy Enterprises was first registered on February 13, 1957 in New York City, New York. The business later moved to the west coast and was reregistered in Los Angeles, California on March 13, 1967. Many of his business relationships proved to be long-lasting, often spanning the entirety of an artist's career. Materials include business records, artists' contracts, promotional materials for various performances, financial records, correspondence, and clients' itineraries. This subseries prominently features the incorporation papers of John Levy Enterprises, in both New York and California, as well as the company's balance sheets and correspondence regarding tours that featured Ramsey Lewis and Nancy Wilson between 2001 and 2004. John Levy's clients included, but were not limited to: Cannonball Adderley, Betty Carter, Randy Crawford, Roberta Flack, Arsenio Hall, Herbie Hancock, Donny Hathaway, Shirley Horn, Freddie Hubbard, Ahmad Jamal, Ramsey Lewis, Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Mann, Les McCann, Letta Mbutu, Wes Montgomery, Billy Paul, Richard and Willie, George Shearing, Dakota Staton, Stanley Turrentine, Maxine Weldon, Joe Williams, and Nancy Wilson. Materials are arranged in chronological order.