Jazz in the Twin Cities Oral History Project: Interview with Roy Robison

Titles: Jazz in the Twin Cities Oral History Project: Interview with Roy Robison (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Robison was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1906. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: How interest in music developed; musical influences; first job with Keogh Gleason; The Marigold Ballroom; playing with traveling bands; Hap Kastner; drinking, drugs and smoking during Prohibition; campus bands; Art Goldberg; improvisation; composing songs; big bands that came to the Twin Cities; "Battles of Music"; playing for the sororities; Minneapolis Musician's Clubhouse; Sammy Scheiner; the club scene; clubs where black bands played; retirement.

Dates

• 09/05/1987 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Robison, Roy
• interviewer: Warmington, Carl

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 129
• Accession Number: AV1989.137.5

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Jazz in the Twin Cities Oral History Project' <OH 129>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 16 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:57:40 running time

Subjects

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