Audrey Wells "Women in Jazz" Radio Series
name: label: Musician
content: Anderson, Ernestine, 1928-
label: Musician
content: Akiyoshi, Toshiko, 1929-
label: Musician
content: Bloom, Jane Ira
label: Musician
content: Brackeen, Joanne, 1938-
label: Musician
content: Cain, Jackie, 1928-
label: Musician
content: Carroll, Barbara, 1925-
label: Musician
content: Carter, Betty, 1930-
label: Musician
content: Coltrane, Alice, 1937-
label: Musician
content: Dearie, Blossom, 1926-
label: Musician
content: Dodgion, Dottie, 1925-
label: Musician
content: Donald, Barbara, 1942-
label: Musician
content: Escovedo, Sheila
label: Musician
content: Humes, Helen, 1913-1981
label: Musician
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
label: Musician
content: Jones, Etta, 1928-
label: Musician
content: Keane, Helen
label: Creator
content: KJAZ radio station (San Francisco, California)
label: Musician
content: Jordan, Sheila, 1928-
label: Creator
content: Kral, Roy, 1921
label: Musician
content: Lincoln, Abbey, 1930 -
label: Musician
content: Lieb, Sandra
label: Musician
content: Maria, Tania, 1948-
label: Musician
content: McPartland, Marian
label: Musician
content: McRae, Carmen, 1922-
label: Creator
content: Parker, Chan
label: Musician
content: Purim, Flora, 1942-
label: Musician
content: Rushen, Patrice
label: Musician
content: Teagarden, Norma, 1911-
label: Donor
content: Wells, Audrey
label: Musician
content: Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981
label: Musician
content: Wilson, Nancy, 1937-
label: Musician
content: Young, Martha
topic: label: Topic
content: African American music -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: African American women
label: Topic
content: African American women singers
label: Topic
content: Jazz
label: Topic
content: Jazz musicians -- United States
label: Topic
content: Music -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Musicians -- United States
label: Topic
content: Popular music -- African American influences
label: Topic
content: Radio programs, Musical
label: Topic
content: Women in music
label: Topic
content: Women musicians
label: Topic
content: Women -- Songs and music
label: Topic
content: African American women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Audrey Wells to the Archives Center in 2005.
creator: label: Musician
content: Anderson, Ernestine, 1928-
label: Musician
content: Akiyoshi, Toshiko, 1929-
label: Musician
content: Bloom, Jane Ira
label: Musician
content: Brackeen, Joanne, 1938-
label: Musician
content: Cain, Jackie, 1928-
label: Musician
content: Carroll, Barbara, 1925-
label: Musician
content: Carter, Betty, 1930-
label: Musician
content: Coltrane, Alice, 1937-
label: Musician
content: Dearie, Blossom, 1926-
label: Musician
content: Dodgion, Dottie, 1925-
label: Musician
content: Donald, Barbara, 1942-
label: Musician
content: Escovedo, Sheila
label: Musician
content: Humes, Helen, 1913-1981
label: Musician
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
label: Musician
content: Jones, Etta, 1928-
label: Musician
content: Keane, Helen
label: Creator
content: KJAZ radio station (San Francisco, California)
label: Musician
content: Jordan, Sheila, 1928-
label: Creator
content: Kral, Roy, 1921
label: Musician
content: Lincoln, Abbey, 1930 -
label: Musician
content: Lieb, Sandra
label: Musician
content: Maria, Tania, 1948-
label: Musician
content: McPartland, Marian
label: Musician
content: McRae, Carmen, 1922-
label: Creator
content: Parker, Chan
label: Musician
content: Purim, Flora, 1942-
label: Musician
content: Rushen, Patrice
label: Musician
content: Teagarden, Norma, 1911-
label: Donor
content: Wells, Audrey
label: Musician
content: Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981
label: Musician
content: Wilson, Nancy, 1937-
label: Musician
content: Young, Martha
setName: label: See more items in
content: Audrey Wells "Women in Jazz" Radio Series
abstract: label: Summary
content: Thirty-four original audio tapes recorded from 1981-1982 of the Women in Jazz Radio Series documenting the music of female jazz artists.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Audrey Ann Lederer was born to Wolfgang Lederer and Alexandra Botvinic (Botwin) on January 25, 1960, in San Francisco, California.  She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she earned her bachelor's and  master's of fine arts degrees. Early in her career Wells worked as a disc jockey at jazz station KJAZ-FM in San Francisco where she hosted a "Women in Jazz" program and in public radio in remote stations in the Alaskan arctic.  She was also a screenwriter, director, and producer.  In 1999, she won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for her film Guinevere. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 but continued to work until her death on October 4, 2018, at the age of fifty-eight.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 34 audio tapes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981-1982, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0899
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Audiotapes
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Oral history
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged in one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed in 2021.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Collection digitized in 2021.  See repository for details.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Audiotapes -- 1990-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews -- 1990-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Oral history -- 1990-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection documents the professional lives of female jazz artists on thirty-four original audio tapes created for the Women in Jazz radio series. This series of programs was hosted by Audrey Wells on radio station KJAZ in San Francisco, California between 1981-1982.  The radio programs aired live every Thursday morning at 12 am for an hour and were rebroadcasted Thursday evenings at 8 pm. The sessions featured interviews and recorded music of some of the best known artists in the field including American, British, Asian American, and Brazilian musicians, vocalists, managers, composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, an author, and a jazz historian.  All of the audio tapes have been digitized for research use.
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