Credits

Jam Session Co-curators:

• Professor Penny M. Von Eschen

  Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her books include Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, a First Runner-Up for the John Hope Franklyn Prize from the American Studies Association. This volume also received Honorable Mention from the 2005 Gustavus Myers Book Award.

• Dr. Curtis Sandberg

  Meridian’s Vice President for the Arts, Sandberg is responsible for developing the organization’s exhibitions and for promoting its Art for Cultural Diplomacy program. He also directs the Traveling Exhibition Service that takes Meridian exhibits around the United States and the world.

 

Photographic restoration:

• Tad Hershorn
  Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
  Newark, New Jersey

 

Lenders:

• Archives Center, National Museum of American History

  Smithsonian Institution
  Washington, DC

• Brubeck Collection, Holt-Atherton Special Collections

  University of the Pacific Library
  Stockton, California

• Dave Usher Collection

  Detroit, Michigan

• George A. Smathers Libraries

  University of Florida, Gainesville

• Institute of Jazz Studies

  Rutgers University
  Newark, New Jersey

• Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

  Yale University
  New Haven, Connecticut

• Louis Armstrong House Museum

  Queens, New York

• Special Collections

  University of Arkansas Libraries
  Fayetteville, Arkansas

• University of North Texas Music Library

  Denton, Texas

• Woody Herman Society

  Arcadia, Florida

 

Exhibition production:

• Art design:

  Mariano Oreamuno
  Meridian International Center
  Washington, DC

• Catalogue, poster, and CD design:

  Kent Hernandez
  Madeira Projects
  Miami, Florida

• CD compilation producer:

  Philip “Flip” Black
  Music Sales Group
  New York

• Frames:

  FrameMasters
  Fairfax, Virginia

• Photography printing:

  204 Studios
  Chattanooga, Tennessee

 

Website:

• Aleksandr Misunin

  Meridian International Center

• Mariano Oreamuno

  Meridian International Center

• Robert Nahory

  Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

• Tad Hershorn

  Institute Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

 

White House letterhead: Courtesy of the Duke Ellington Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
State Department stationery: Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville.

Music Credits:

Louis Armstrong
* Someday You'll be Sorry [Music Sales Corp. o/b/o Louis Armstrong Music]
* When the Saints Go Marching In [Music Sales Corp. o/b/o Louis Armstrong Music]

Duke Ellington
* (A Tone Parallel To) Harlem [G. Schirmer, Inc.]
* Things Ain't What They Used To Be [Music Sales Corp./Tempo Music, Inc.]