Jay McShann Collection

The Jay McShann Collection was gifted to the LaBudde Special Collections Department by the McShann Family in July 2009. Inclusive dates are 1916-2006. This collection contains a lot of information relating to McShann's renewed popularity and recognition, starting in the 1970s when the blues music saw a resurgence.

Items in Collection: 756

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Advertising & Media

Black History & Representation

Jazz, Big Band, & Music Industry

Kansas City History

1 - 5 of 5 items

Gloria McShann, Lester Blue and other family members (likely) posing for a group photo at a birthday party.

Date Published

1991

2000

Jay McShann, seated, posing for a photo with a young Japanese family with two children at the Budweiser Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao, Japan; on the wall behind them is a poster advertising the...

Date Published

1989-08-06

Jay McShann (left) posing for a photo with his cousin Marrele Overstreet (right) with Marrele's wife Dorothy (center); Detroit, Michigan.

Date Published

1983

Unidentified family posing together for a photo by the fireplace and dining room table set with wine glasses; mother, father, daughter, and son.

Date Published

1997-11

Unidentified African American family in karate gi posing for a portrait; mother, and two girls; a white man in a red gi maybe the teacher, or father.

Date Published

1991

2000

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Jay McShann Collection

Gloria McShann with Lester Blue and other family members

Jay McShann posing for a photo with a Japanese family

Jay McShann with family

Unidentified family group photo

Unidentified family Karate portrait

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