Louis Gerrits creator of the site michaelbreckerliverecordings.com posted a link to a video tour of the Living Jazz Archives at William Paterson University which includes the Michael Brecker Archive on Facebook this morning. I posted about this great archive in the past here: Michael Brecker Archive Article.
The Michael Brecker part of the video tour starts at 32:32 where Dave Dempsey starts showing that part of the archive. This is so cool to watch! I would love to spend a few days in this room listening to recordings and taking photos of charts and notebooks with my iPhone! Here a description of the tour from the Vimeo website:
Bone2pick heads to the venerable William Patterson University and their extraordinary Living Jazz Archives for a look at some of the most prized artifacts in the history of jazz. Curator/Professor David Dempsey and Professor Pete McGuinness take us on an insiders look at all things Clark Terry – date books, horns, mutes, original lead sheets, a treasure trove of original Thad Jones scores and recordings and everything from practice notebooks, original board cassette tapes, hand written manuscript, even a high school yearbook from the one and only Michael Brecker. It’s like being a kid in a candy store all over again. Enjoy!
