Kevin Parks
inharmonik.bsky.social
Kevin Parks
@inharmonik.bsky.social
It feels petty to share personal or professional achievements with the world in such crisis, but this is big so here it goes:

I am happy and proud to announce that the New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Wayne Shorter.

www.nypl.org/blog/2025/06...
NYPL’s Library for the Performing Arts Acquires Archive of Wayne Shorter, Legendary Jazz Composer and Musician | The New York Public Library
Shorter, who died in 2023 at 89 years old, touched virtually every aspect of jazz.
www.nypl.org
June 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ivan Black collection is now live: archives.nypl.org/mus/188087

These are additions to the Ivan Black papers which are also here.
archives.nypl.org -- Ivan Black collection
archives.nypl.org
March 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Librarians to the rescue.

"The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added"

lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Metronome magazine was a music magazine that was published from 1885-1961. The Music and Recorded Sound Division of the NYPL recently acquired the photo archives of Metronome, and there's a lot of interesting jazz photos to see.

www.nypl.org/blog/2025/01...
Newly Available: 'Metronome' Magazine Photographs Collection | The New York Public Library
Published from 1885 to 1961, Metronome magazine has as its backdrop some of the biggest changes in music-making. 
www.nypl.org
January 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A photo exhibition devoted to women in jazz opens tomorrow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
December 11, 2024 at 9:58 PM

Great news--the finding aid for the Gary Miller Gay Men's Chorus Papers is now live:

archives.nypl.org/mus/186429
archives.nypl.org -- Gary Miller New York City Gay Men's Chorus papers
archives.nypl.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Bye Twitter/X
November 15, 2024 at 2:36 AM