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- Interview with Don Albert, 1980.
- Jazz--Texas
- San Antonio, Texas Jazz trumpeter, band leader and nightclub owner Don Albert recalls his experiences playing in the 1920s and 1930s from New Orleans to San Antonio to Kansas City and Chicago. And he shares memories of some of jazz’s greatest...
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- Interview with Jim Cullum Jr., 1986
- Jazz musicians.; Dance orchestras.; Happy Jazz Band.; The Landing-San Antonio (Tex.).; Jim Cullum 1914-1973.
- San Antonio, Texas The leader of the Happy Jazz Band and owner of Jim Cullum's Landing nightclub on San Antonio's River Walk, Jim Cullum Jr.'s life revolves around his talent and his passion for jazz. The son of a noted jazz artist, he grew up...
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- Interview with Millard McNeal, 1980
- Jazz.; Musical instruments.; Musicians--Texas.;
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- Interview with Elizabeth S. Robinson, 2010
- United Service Organizations (U.S.).; USO-Camp Shows, Inc.; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.; Dancing.
- Personal history of Betsy (Berkley) Robinson who left Seguin, Texas for New York City during the Depression. She trained and worked as a dancer and entertainer before joining the USO and working in the camp shows during World War II.
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- Interview with Bob Rutledge, 1980
- Jazz.; Musicians--Texas.; African American musicians.
- Rutledge recalls his professional jazz career and work with other musicians as well as his business philosophy and concerns for the future of jazz.
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- Tejano Community Advisory Committee meeting, Institute of Texan Cultures, May 1, 1993
- Texas, South -- History.; Local -- Exhibitions.; Texas, South -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.; Mexican Americans--Texas--Biography.; Mexican Americans--Texas--Ethnic identity.
- Transcripts of community meetings conducted by the Institute of Texan Cultures as part of the Tejano Community Advisory Group.
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- Interview with Don Albert, 1980.
- Jazz
- Jazz trumpeter, band leader and nightclub owner Don Albert recalls his experiences playing in the 1920s and 30s from New Orleans to San Antonio to Kansas City and Chicago. And he shares memories of some of jazz’s greatest stars, friends like Duke...
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- Interview with Don Albert, 1980.
- Jazz
- San Antonio, Texas Jazz trumpeter, band leader and nightclub owner Don Albert recalls his experiences playing in the 1920s and 1930s from New Orleans to San Antonio to Kansas City and Chicago. And he shares memories of some of jazz’s greatest...
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- Interview with Juan V. Valdez, 1996
- Tejano music.; Mexican Americans--Texas--Music.; Conjunto music.
- San Antonio, Texas Juan Valdez grew up in Southwest Texas listening to musicians in his family. He learned to play Spanish music first, then a combination of cumbias, polkas, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, country and western. At first...
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- Interview with T. R. Fehrenbach, 2001
- African American soldiers.; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
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- Interview with Charles T. and Marjorie Johnson, 1990
- Del Rio (Tex.).; Radio stations--Texas.
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- Interview with Adele E.U. Edisen, 2009
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.; Oswald, Lee Harvey.
- Edisen is a neurophysiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has been involved in medical researching and teaching for several decades. In 1963, Edisen had interactions with Jose Rivera that led her to a different outcome...
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- Interview with Richard Zeni
- United States--Armed Forces.;
- Richard Zeni, October 22, 2005 Zeni served inteh US Navy Reserve from 1943-1946, the US Naval Air Reserves from 1946-1969 and the US Naval Retired Reserves from 1969-1984. Topics: experiences in Reserves
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- Interview with Rosita Fernandez, April 29, 1997
- Mexican American women singers--Texas--San Antonio; Mexican American women--Interviews; Women in the performing arts.; Music--Mexican-American Border Region.;
- Rosita Fernandez, a long time San Antonian and pioneer of Tejano music, gained international fame as a recording artist and for performances on film, television, radio, and stage. Her career began in the 1920s and spanned over 60 years.
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- Interview with Jim Cullum Jr., 1980.
- Jazz musicians; Dance orchestras; Happy Jazz Band; The Landing-San Antonio (Tex.); Cullum, Jim
- San Antonio, Texas, 1980 The leader of the Happy Jazz Band and owner of Jim Cullum’s Landing...
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- Interview with Robert B. "Dude" Skiles, ca. 1980.
- Jazz musicians.
- Dude Skiles relates his musical experience, starting with his family in The Skile's Music Makers as drummer and his career as a jazz trumpeter.
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- Interview with Sister M. Alexandrine Gieniec, 1984.
- Polish Americans--Texas;San Antonio (Tex.)--Description and travel
- Sister Alexandrine was born into a Polish family and reared in a neighborhood where all of San Antonio's ethnic groups flourished - along with ther cultures and cuisines. She shares those recollections and explains the importance of the...
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