A collection of sheet music, correspondence and diaries from late Canadian jazz great Moe Koffman has been donated to Library and Archives Canada.
His wife Gisele Koffman donated the documents and recordings and promotional materials to the Ottawa-based archive.
Koffman, who died in 2001, was a renowned jazz flutist and saxophonist and one of the first Canadian artists to play bebop.
He is known for his international hit Swingin' Shepherd Blues and recordings such as Live at George's, recorded at Toronto's George's Spaghetti House, and Museum Pieces.
Koffman was a soloist in the Canadian big band, The Boss Brass, and toured Canada with his longstanding jazz quartet and quintet. The Koffman Quintet played regularly with Dizzy Gillespie in the 1980s and with Peter Appleyard in the 1990s.
Koffman is also known for several popular jazz arrangements of music by Bach, Berlioz, Debussy, Gluck, Grieg, Mozart, and Vivaldi.
The collection acquired by the archive includes sheet music for compositions; sound, video, and film recordings of musical performances; correspondence, contracts and pocket diaries; and graphic materials such as photographs, drawings, and artwork for albums.
"This collection will give music researchers and historians access to over four decades of Koffman's creative life," Ian E.
Wilson, librarian and archivist, said in a statement released Wednesday.
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