• 1,214 Music Library (Mills)
• 3 College Library
• 3 Shared Print Repositories
• 2 Memorial Library
• 1 Art Library (Kohler)
• 1 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
• 1 MERIT Library
• 1 Wisconsin Historical Society Library

• 1,900 Sound Recordings
• 57 Books
• 27 Music Scores
• 19 Videos, Slides, Films

• 751 Vinyl Records
• 315 Compact Discs
• 12 DVDs
• 3 Cassette Tapes

• 784 Jazz
• 701 Popular music
• 436 Blues (Music)
• 321 Jazz vocals
• 235 Country music
• 66 Big band music
• 64 Rhythm and blues music
• 54 Rock music
• 46 History and criticism
• 41 Dance orchestra music
• 38 Folk songs, English
• 35 Bluegrass music
• 34 Musicals
• 34 Saxophone music (Jazz)
• 31 Motion picture music
• 29 Trumpet music (Jazz)
• 26 Piano music (Jazz)
• 23 Folk music
• 21 Popular instrumental music
• 19 Dixieland music
• 19 Saxophone with jazz ensemble
• 18 Jazz musicians
• 17 Music
• 14 Doo-wop (Music)
• 13 Gospel music

• 218 Ford Porter Collection
• 110 Robert Andresen Collection
• 72 Marshall F. Granros Collection
• 65 Wisconsin Music Archives
• 55 Fitzgerald, Ella
• 52 Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
• 45 Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
• 38 Peterson, Oscar, 1925-2007
• 37 Brown, Ray, 1926-2002
• 34 James McKinty Collection
• 33 Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
• 33 Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963
• 32 Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990
• 29 Kessel, Barney
• 28 Basie, Count, 1904-1984
• 25 Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
• 25 Hawkins, Coleman
• 25 Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982
• 24 Hooker, John Lee
• 22 Rollins, Sonny
• 21 Eldridge, Roy, 1911-1989
• 20 Haynes, Roy
• 19 Muddy Waters, 1915-1983
• 19 Taylor, Art
• 18 Ellis, Herb, 1921-2010

• 13 French
• 13 Italian
• 12 Hawaiian
• 12 Multiple languages
• 9 Spanish
• 7 German
• 3 Undetermined
• 2 No linguistic content
• 2 Zulu
• 1 Finnish
• 1 Indonesian
• 1 Swahili
• 1 Xhosa
• 1 Yiddish

• 148 United States
• 23 Hawaii
• 17 Chicago
• 17 Illinois
• 14 Louisiana
• 10 New York
• 10 New York (State)
• 10 Texas
• 9 Wisconsin
• 8 New Orleans
• 7 California
• 5 Great Britain
• 5 Trinidad and Tobago
• 4 Detroit
• 4 Michigan
• 4 Trinidad
• 3 England
• 3 France
• 3 Southern States
• 3 Tennessee
• 2 Canada
• 2 Houston
• 2 Los Angeles
• 2 Los Angeles Region
• 2 Madison

• 170 Popular music
• 105 Jazz
• 99 Blues (Music)
• 72 Sound recordings
• 54 Rhythm and blues music
• 47 Excerpts
• 38 Country music
• 34 Songs
• 28 Dixieland music
• 24 Live sound recordings
• 22 Songs and music
• 15 Excerpts, Arranged
• 12 Biography
• 11 Bluegrass music
• 11 Interviews
• 10 Alternate takes (Sound recordings)
• 10 Folk music
• 10 Music
• 10 Old-time music
• 10 Rock music
• 10 Rockabilly music
• 9 Concert films
• 9 Soul music
• 8 Gospel music
• 8 Humorous songs

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