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Jazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
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Performances, events, festivals and tours

Material relating to tours, concerts, festivals and other performance events given by members of Women in Jazz under various stage names such as the Roots Trio, the Women in Jazz Allstars and Wilson & Morgan's Café Society Ensemble, together with events participated in or organised by Women in Jazz, or with which they were associated.

Year of Literature 1995

Material relating to events surrounding 1995's Year of Literature and in particular the involvement of Women in Jazz , including proposals, aims and objectives and mission statement; funding applications and responses; press release; correspondence; and press cuttings. Jen Wilson was appointed a member of the 1995 Year of Literature General Advisory Group. Together with material relating to double bassist Paula Gardiner, pianist Stan Tracey and trumpeter Cris Haines, who were each commissioned by Swansea University's Department of Adult Continuing Education to compose new works to celebrate the Year of Literature.

Although this was a British-wide celebration of literature and the arts, Swansea's successful bid to host the Arts Council's Year of Literature in 1995 meant that the majority of events were held in and around that city.

On My Life: Women's Writing from Wales

Material relating to article by Jen Wilson titled 'Zen and the Art of Thelonious Monk', contributed to On My Life: Women's Writing from Wales (ed. Leigh Verrill-Rhys; Honno Press (1989)), including agreement relating to publication of article; correspondence from Honno Press, the Arts Council of Wales and Seren Press, the latter relating to the inclusion of Jen Wilson's article in A Swansea Anthology (ed. James A. Davies (1996)); reviews; and dust jacket of On My Life.

SWAGMag No. 4

Material relating to an article by Jen Wilson titled 'A Sociocultural and Historical Perspective, and its relevance to Popular Culture, of the Bed belonging to Haulwen Mary and William John Evans of Swansea, now deceased', published in SWAGMag No. 4 [1995], the periodic magazine of the Swansea Writers' and Artists' Group (SWAG), comprising annotated text of article; copy of SWAGMag No. 4; and letter from Honno Press suggesting Jen Wilson contribute a piece for a forthcoming collection of women's writings (later published as Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s (ed. Deirdre Beddoe, Honno Press, 2003).

The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales

Material relating to entries contributed by Jen Wilson to the The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (2008), including agreements for the writing and contribution of entries; notes for contributors; texts of Jen Wilson's entries; notes towards the writing of entries; correspondence addressed to Jen Wilson from editors Nigel Jenkins and Menna Baines; and printed invitation to launch of publication. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales was edited by writer and editor Menna Baines, poet and writer Nigel Jenkins and historian and author John Davies and was published in January 2008. Jen Wilson's contributions to the publication centred around jazz music and jazz musicians.

Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s

Material relating to Jen Wilson's article 'Redefining the Sixties Myth: Letters Home to Swansea', contributed to Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s (ed. Deirdre Beddoe, Honno Press, 2003), including annotated draft texts of article; photocopied contents page of Changing Times; and correspondence addressed to Jen Wilson from Honno Press.

Correspondence

Letters, emails, cards and Christmas cards to or from Jen Wilson and/or the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales, including sympathy cards and letters sent to Jen Wilson on the occasion of her mother's death. Correspondents include friends and colleagues in the music business; venues at which Jen Wilson and/or Women in Jazz performed, exhibited or otherwise participated; and organisations with which Jen Wilson collaborated or held membership, including Jazz Services and the British Institute of Jazz Studies.

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