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Email correspondence relating to the Radio Wales series International Flavours, the first programme of which, recorded 7 July 2005, featured Jen Wilson.

General material relating to playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater, largely comprising email correspondence between Jen Wilson and Alan Plater and his wife Shirley Rubenstein.

General material relating to Jen Wilson's involvement with the media via the Women's Jazz Archive, including background research/notes; statement of payment from the BBC; correspondence; and enquiry sheets.

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.

Papers relating to the Women's Jazz Archive oral history project, largely comprising transcribed interviews and correspondence, including material relating to the official opening of the archive on 26 June 1993; material relating to prominent archive contributors Blanche Finlay, Ottilie Patterson and Elaine Delmar; and material relating to the Heritage Lottery Funded project Wales, Slavery and Music - the Unknown Inheritance (for which see also Funding: 2004).

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.

Material relating to Portrait of the Artist as an Older Woman, a poetry and video project jointly produced by Jen Wilson and poet Penny Windsor and performed 17 October as part of the 1990 Swansea Fringe Festival, including flyers, press cuttings and photographs.

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.

Material relating to Women in Jazz's performance at a conference organised by The Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology titled Women's Ways, held at Trinity College, Carmarthen, 16-18 July 1993.

Playlist relating to a DACE ((Swansea University's) Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band performance at the Quadrant Centre, Swansea, 10 December 1995, in aid of the Chernobyl Children's Appeal.

Poster relating to a performance by Wilson's Brew, featuring Jen Wilson, at a Swansea Jazz Society event held at the Duke of York public house, Swansea.

Playlist relating to a performance by the DACE ((Swansea University's) Department of Adult Continuing Education) Big Band at Swansea University's Open Day, 22 June 1996.

Material relating to the Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite 'Twelve Poems', a piece commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of celebrated Swansea-born poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Composed by Jen Wilson, the Suite comprises jazz settings of twelve of Thomas's poems. The work was performed as part of the Sean Dunne Writer's Festival in Waterford, Ireland, at the 2003 Brecon Jazz Festival and at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, Unviersity of Rio Grande, Ohio; however, funding for a tour of 'Twelve Poems' to mark the Dylan Thomas 100 centenary festival of 2014 was rejected. The material includes copious correspondence; funding applications; projected expenses; list of potential performance venues; enquiry sheets; press releases and previews; posters; concert programmes; performance contracts; and press cuttings; together with general material relating to Dylan Thomas and Dylan Thomas festivals.

Press cutting relating to a concert performance by the Jen Wilson Quartet titled Lady Sings The Blues at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, [29 September] 2001.

Letter of confirmation from Jen Wilson relating to a proposed Roots Trio concert to be held at the University of Glamorgan in June 2003.

Material relating to a concert performance by the Roots Trio at an International Women's Day event held at the Chattery Cafe, Swansea, 7 March 2003.
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Material relating to Women in Jazz's participation in a series of events organised by Swansea Bay Racial Equality Council.

Flyer for a Wales Assembly of Women (Cardiff and Glamorgan group) celebration dinner held at the University of Wales, Cardiff, 6 May 2004, at which Women in Jazz performed.

Enquiry sheet and playlist relating to a concert performance by the Roots Trio at Singleton Park, Swansea, 30 May 2004.

Material relating to the Welsh-American abolitionist Jessie Donaldson, including information booklets, exhibition panel texts, etc relating to the multi-media presentation on Jessie Donaldson by Jen Wilson and other members of Women in Jazz as part of Black History Month, October 2002; photocopied texts from printed sources and printouts from online sources relating to the life and work of Jessie Donaldson; correspondence, including mainly emails between Jen Wilson and Patricia Donaldson-Mills, whose husband was a descendant of Francis Donaldson's family line; Heineken/Donaldson family tree (text faint); and enquiry sheets.