title

John Coltrane Memorial Black Music Archive

homepage

https://library.sdsu.edu/scua/new-notable/john-coltrane-memorial-black-music-archive-sdsu

description

The John Coltrane Memorial Black Music Archive is a collection of nearly 50,000 recordings housed at San Diego State University. The archive encompasses nearly every important jazz musician from the 1920s onward. Alongside John Coltrane’s complete catalog, this archive also includes an extensive Blue Note collection, a comprehensive collection of Jamaican music, and countless other rare and out-of-print releases.

creator or project

San Diego State University

type

Catalogue

purpose

Learning

audience

researchers

scholars

amateurs

task or research field

performance

example resource

https://csu-sdsu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991023667129302917&context=L&vid=01CALS_SDL:01CALS_SDL&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,coltrane&mode=advanced&offset=0

type of collected resources

Performance

Recording

scope of the collection

Genre

music genre in scope

jazz

music of Jamaica

category of data collected

Metadata

Media

collection size

>1M

data license

CC-BY

data size

~Gb