Another Music Institution Mines Its Archives For Recordings

The Monterey Jazz Festival is going into the recording business. “It has plenty to choose from in the archives: “There are over 1,600 tapes, more than 2,000 hours of music. There’s Duke Ellington in there, Count Basie and Woody Herman. There’s blues: Jimmy Witherspoon, Etta James. We have Tito Puente, Brubeck, Mingus. We have Sonny Rollins from ’58…”