- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Georgia - Albany: T. Marshall Jones Interviewee
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dent, Thomas C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-07-30
- Subject:
- African Americans
Art
Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Education
Fund raising
Music
Police
Universities and colleges - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews T. Marshall Jones in Albany, Georgia. He attended Virginia State University and teaches in the Music Department at Albany State College. He talks about [John Battise?], who is the Executive Director of the Texas Arts Council and a mutual acquaintance. They discuss arts funding. Dent recently assisted in getting a Jazz Masters Award for Danny Barker in New Orleans. He talks about Barker's work. Marshall served as chairman of the Georgia Council for the Arts in the 1980s. He talks about some of the people he met through his work on the council. They discuss jazz funerals and the careers of Ellis Marsalis and Kidd Jordan. Dent talks about a jazz school they created for children, where Kidd Jordan is the teacher. Jones talks about meeting Jordan, and seeing Branton and Wynford Marsalis perform in Atlanta. They talk about jazz education. Jones talks about his experience teaching marching band. They discuss their mutual acquaintances involved in music education and the arts. Jones talks about the music department at Albany State. He came as a band director in 1963. After he arrived from Flint, Michigan, he became disgusted and regretted the decision. He talks about how he built the program. Jones got a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. He came back to Albany in 1972. He explains some changed to the program that have developed over the years, including the creating of a faculty jazz group. He talks about the culture shock he experienced coming to Albany in 1963, on the heels of the demonstrations. He gives an example of the unpleasant exchanges with police he experienced.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53899
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
-
