Women in Jazz: Heroines or Victims?
- 28/12/1/1
- Ffeil / File
- 1986
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Draft article by Jen Wilson titled 'Women in Jazz: Heroines or Victims?'.
Women in Jazz: Heroines or Victims?
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Draft article by Jen Wilson titled 'Women in Jazz: Heroines or Victims?'.
Discrimination in British Jazz: Issues of Race, Class and Gender Between the Wars 1918-1939
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Annotated text of what appears to be an article titled 'Discrimination in British Jazz: Issues of Race, Class and Gender Between the Wars 1918-1939'.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Correspondence between Jen Wilson and John Barnie, editor of Planet magazine, relating to Jen Wilson's article 'Wales and Negro Minstrelsy: a socio-cultural interchange 1830-1910', which appeared in the June 2006 edition.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater's three-part radio play The Devil's Music (2001), a work based on stories from the Women's Jazz Archive, particularly that of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and for which Jen Wilson acted as music/history consultant. Material includes scripts, cast list, recording schedule, agreements and correspondence, largely between Jen Wilson, Alan Plater and the BBC.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater's production Only A Matter Of Time, comprising theatre programme and email to Jen Wilson from Plater and his wife Shirley Rubenstein.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to Women in Jazz's performance at a conference organised by The Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology titled Women's Ways, held at Trinity College, Carmarthen, 16-18 July 1993.
Concert in aid of the Chernobyl Children's Appeal
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Playlist relating to a DACE ((Swansea University's) Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band performance at the Quadrant Centre, Swansea, 10 December 1995, in aid of the Chernobyl Children's Appeal.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Poster relating to a performance by Wilson's Brew, featuring Jen Wilson, at a Swansea Jazz Society event held at the Duke of York public house, Swansea.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Playlist relating to a performance by the DACE ((Swansea University's) Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band at Swansea University's Open Day, 22 June 1996.
Dylan Thomas 50th Anniversary: Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite 'Twelve Poems'
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to the Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite 'Twelve Poems', a piece commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of celebrated Swansea-born poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Composed by Jen Wilson, the Suite comprises jazz settings of twelve of Thomas's poems. The work was performed as part of the Sean Dunne Writer's Festival in Waterford, Ireland, at the 2003 Brecon Jazz Festival and at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, Unviersity of Rio Grande, Ohio; however, funding for a tour of 'Twelve Poems' to mark the Dylan Thomas 100 centenary festival of 2014 was rejected. The material includes copious correspondence; funding applications; projected expenses; list of potential performance venues; enquiry sheets; press releases and previews; posters; concert programmes; performance contracts; and press cuttings; together with general material relating to Dylan Thomas and Dylan Thomas festivals.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Press cutting relating to a concert performance by the Jen Wilson Quartet titled Lady Sings The Blues at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, [29 September] 2001.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to the Welsh-American abolitionist Jessie Donaldson, including information booklets, exhibition panel texts, etc relating to the multi-media presentation on Jessie Donaldson by Jen Wilson and other members of Women in Jazz as part of Black History Month, October 2002; photocopied texts from printed sources and printouts from online sources relating to the life and work of Jessie Donaldson; correspondence, including mainly emails between Jen Wilson and Patricia Donaldson-Mills, whose husband was a descendant of Francis Donaldson's family line; Heineken/Donaldson family tree (text faint); and enquiry sheets.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Letter of confirmation from Jen Wilson relating to a proposed Roots Trio concert to be held at the University of Glamorgan in June 2003.
International Women's Day event
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to a concert performance by the Roots Trio at an International Women's Day event held at the Chattery Cafe, Swansea, 7 March 2003.
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Swansea Bay Racial Equality Council: Global A-Fayres
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to Women in Jazz's participation in a series of events organised by Swansea Bay Racial Equality Council.
Wales Assembly of Women celebraton dinner
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Flyer for a Wales Assembly of Women (Cardiff and Glamorgan group) celebration dinner held at the University of Wales, Cardiff, 6 May 2004, at which Women in Jazz performed.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Enquiry sheet and playlist relating to a concert performance by the Roots Trio at Singleton Park, Swansea, 30 May 2004.
Val Feld New Year Celebration Night
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to a celebration night in memory of Val Feld held at the Chattery, Swansea, 8 January 2005, at which the Roots Trio performed.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to a concert performance by the Women in Jazz Allstars at the Grand Theatre, Swansea, 4 November 2005.
Rhan oJazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
Material relating to the organisation of a visit to Swansea by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, including correspondence, largely between Jen Wilson, Dr Paul Kwami of Fisk University and Uzo Iwobi, Chair of the African Community Centre (see African/African-Caribbean Art Strategy: African Community Centre); projected expenses relating to the proposed visit; and illustrated history of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.