The Alexander Semmler Papers contain music written by Alexander Semmler, both published and unpublished, as well as some of his notes and correspondence.

A collection of sheet music of musical theater works from 1925-1955.

The Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City's WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.

The collection contains 84 10-inch sound recordings of jazz, blues, ragtime, and boogie woogie.

Joe Williams (1918-1999) was a celebrated vocalist known for his collaboration with the Count Basie Orchestra, as well as a successful solo career. The Joe Williams annotated scores collection is comprised of over thirty scores.

Course materials, notes, research materials, notebooks and writings of Professor Kellis Parker (1942-2000), first full-time African-American law professor at CU. Known for outspoken advocacy of ending racial discrimination in academia and for embracing jazz as a framework for understanding law.

Jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell's career is documented in this collection by programs, reviews, scrapbooks, books, sounds recordings, art, and posters.

Musical scores, correspondence, sheet music, audio tapes of interviews with jazz musicians, and other materials from Tucker, jazz pianist and scholar.

A collection of forty-eight watercolors on forty-four leaves of paper by artist Miriam Cahn depicting jazz performances she attended at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and elsewhere in New York City between 1995 and 2002.

The Paul Hoeffler "Rochester Jazz" photographic print collection provides a unique commentary on Rochester history in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to the nearly 200 fine art (exhibition) prints, the collection also consists of posters, media reviews, reproductions, cd recordings, album art, and exhibit materials.

A collection of 268 Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938. Numerous composers and lyricists (primarily Russian but also European and American) are represented. Most scores were published in Moscow or Leningrad. Other imprints include Rostov-na-Donu, Kiev, Kharʹkov, and Tiflis. Most scores are popular music, jazz or dance music. The covers were designed by many different artists. The collection includes musical settings of poems by Esenin, Lebedev-Kumach and Mayakovsky among others.

The collection contains 383 digital audio files recorded from 1948-1994, with music performances, radio programs, conferences, interviews, and lectures.