{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/pn8x92394z/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["The Search for Recordings of Pioneering Jazz Guitarist Eddie \"Snoozer\" Quinn"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Kathryn Hobgood Ray (Presenter)","David Giovannoni (Chair)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2010-05-20 (Created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["Eddie \"Snoozer\" Quinn (1907-1949) was an early jazz guitarist who played with renowned musicians like Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong and the Dorsey brothers. Some historians believe that Quinn had an important role in the development of jazz guitar; he has been called a missing link between country blues guitarists and early jazz soloists like Eddie Lang and George Van Eps. Few recordings of Quinn exist today. Solo recordings he made for Victor Records in 1928 were never released and have been lost, as has a 1928 Columbia session with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer. Thankfully, in 1948 or 1949, a musician named Johnny Wiggs recorded Quinn on reel-to-reel tape inside the tuberculosis ward at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Though Quinn was so ill that he died soon after this session, the recordings give us some glimpse of his wonderful musicality and style. In addition, silent film footage featuring Quinn in his prime has been recovered. The film was recorded by Charles Peterson, a guitarist/banjoist with Rudy Vallee’s Connecticut Yankees, in 1932 in Laurelton, N.J. The search for Quinn’s missing recordings, likely as personal test pressings, continues. But thanks to the foresight of Wiggs, Peterson, and the preservation of these artifacts, now on file in the Louisiana State Museum, analysis of Quinn’s technique and his contribution to the development of jazz guitar is possible."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}}],"summary":{"en":["Eddie \"Snoozer\" Quinn (1907-1949) was an early jazz guitarist who played with renowned musicians like Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong and the Dorsey brothers. Some historians believe that Quinn had an important role in the development of jazz guitar; he has been called a missing link between country blues guitarists and early jazz soloists like Eddie Lang and George Van Eps. Few recordings of Quinn exist today. Solo recordings he made for Victor Records in 1928 were never released and have been lost, as has a 1928 Columbia session with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer. Thankfully, in 1948 or 1949, a musician named Johnny Wiggs recorded Quinn on reel-to-reel tape inside the tuberculosis ward at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Though Quinn was so ill that he died soon after this session, the recordings give us some glimpse of his wonderful musicality and style. In addition, silent film footage featuring Quinn in his prime has been recovered. The film was recorded by Charles Peterson, a guitarist/banjoist with Rudy Vallee’s Connecticut Yankees, in 1932 in Laurelton, N.J. The search for Quinn’s missing recordings, likely as personal test pressings, continues. But thanks to the foresight of Wiggs, Peterson, and the preservation of these artifacts, now on file in the Louisiana State Museum, analysis of Quinn’s technique and his contribution to the development of jazz guitar is possible."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128035/file/239762","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2010_HobgoodRay_audio.mp3"]},"duration":1866.40469,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128035/file/239762/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128035/file/239762/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/239/762/original/ARSC_conf_2010_HobgoodRay_audio.mp3?1714144097","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1866.40469,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128035/file/239762","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}