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Roy Nathanson Archived Websites

Box: Electronic records (Material Type: electronic records)

Scope and Contents

Roy Nathanson is a saxophonist, composer, band-leader, poet, actor, teacher, and main composer for Jazz Passengers. His website contained a biography of Nathanson, music from his albums, his discography, performance dates, poetry, and reviews of his work.

Jazz Passengers is a jazz ensemble formed in 1987 in New York City, characterized as post-bop and musical comedy, featuring Roy Nathanson, Curtis Fowlkes, Bill Ware, Sam Bardfeld, Bradley Jones, E.J. Rodriguez, and Ben Perowsky. Jazz Passengers have contributed to collaborative works with artists, including Elvis Costello, and have created radio plays and pieces of musical theater. The band's website features biographies on each of its members, information about upcoming performances, a photo gallery, a collection of press mentions, an online store for recordings on CD and for digital download, and a page on the band's 30th anniversary recording, "Still Life with Trouble".

Appraisal

Robots.txt (a piece of code that prevents crawlers from advancing through a site) were ignored during capture.

Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of http://roynathanson.net/ and https://jazzpassengers.com in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Soundcloud and Youtube content was not captured due to technological constraints.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

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