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          "alt": "Ray Brown playing the bass, facing right",
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          "credit": "Ray Brown Collection"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Ray Brown Collection Timeline",
          "text": "The International Jazz Collections (IJC) is the leading jazz archive in the Pacific Northwest. It features papers, photographs, audio/visual materials, and artifacts from jazz legends such as Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather, Lee Morse, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ella Fitzgerald."
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          "alt": "Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, and Benny Green at Bermuda Onion Club, Toronto, September 1992.  11 x 14 inch black and white photograph by Barry Thomson (Toronto, Ontario).",
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          "text": "Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, and Benny Green at Bermuda Onion Club, Toronto, September 1992.  11 x 14 inch black and white photograph by Barry Thomson (Toronto, Ontario)."
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          "alt": "Ray Brown.  9 1/2 x 7 inch black and white photograph.",
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          "year": "1985"
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          "text": "Ray Brown.  9 1/2 x 7 inch black and white photograph."
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          "alt": "Ray Brown, 1967.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner medal.",
          "caption": "Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner 1967",
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          "year": "1967"
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          "headline": "Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner 1967",
          "text": "Ray Brown, 1967.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner medal."
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        "media": {
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          "alt": "Down Beat Award presented to Ray Brown Bass First Place, 1953.  10 x 6 3/8 inch wood finish plaque with musical theme and engraved plate.",
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          "year": "1953"
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          "headline": "Down Beat Award, 1953",
          "text": "Down Beat Award presented to Ray Brown Bass First Place, 1953.  10 x 6 3/8 inch wood finish plaque with musical theme and engraved plate."
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      },{
        "media": {
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          "alt": "Ray Brown, 1970.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz and Pop Poll Winner medal.",
          "caption": "Playboy All-Star Jazz and Pop Poll Winner 1970, Bass",
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          "year": "1970"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Playboy All-Star Jazz and Pop Poll Winner 1970, Bass",
          "text": "Ray Brown, 1970.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz and Pop Poll Winner medal."
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        "media": {
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          "alt": "Ray Brown, Bass, 1971.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz and Pop Poll Winner medal.",
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          "year": "1971"
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          "headline": "Playboy All-Star Jazz and Pop Poll Winner 1971",
          "text": "Ray Brown, Bass, 1971.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz and Pop Poll Winner medal."
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          "alt": "Ray Brown (signed).  10 x 8 inch black and white photograph.",
          "caption": "Ray Brown (signed)",
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        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1985"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Ray Brown (signed)",
          "text": "Ray Brown (signed).  10 x 8 inch black and white photograph."
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      },{
        "media": {
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          "alt": "Ray Brown playing the bass, facing right.  10 x 8 inch black and white photograph.",
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          "year": "1970"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Ray Brown playing the bass, facing right",
          "text": "Ray Brown playing the bass, facing right.  10 x 8 inch black and white photograph."
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        "media": {
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          "alt": "Ray Brown, Bass, Special Award, 1963.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner medal.",
          "caption": "Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner 1963, Special Award, Bass",
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          "year": "1963"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner 1963, Special Award, Bass",
          "text": "Ray Brown, Bass, Special Award, 1963.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner medal."
        }
      },{
        "media": {
          "url": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/ijc/brown_ray/small/ijc_ray_brown_010_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Ray Brown, Bass 1964.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner medal.",
          "caption": "Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner 1964, Bass",
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          "year": "1964"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner 1964, Bass",
          "text": "Ray Brown, Bass 1964.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner medal."
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      },{
        "media": {
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          "alt": "Ray Brown playing the bass, facing left.  10 x 8 inch black and white photograph.",
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          "year": "1985"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Ray Brown playing the bass, facing left",
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          "alt": "Ray Brown.  10 x 8 inch color photograph.",
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          "year": "1990"
        },
        "text": {
          "headline": "Ray Brown",
          "text": "Ray Brown.  10 x 8 inch color photograph."
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        "media": {
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          "alt": "Ray Brown, Bass 1964.  2 1/2 inch Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner medal.",
          "caption": "Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner 1964, Bass",
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          "year": "1964"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Playboy All-Star Jazz Poll Winner 1964, Bass",
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      },{
        "media": {
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          "alt": "Ray Brown Bass Jazz Critics Poll Down Beat, 1958.  7 1/2 x6 1/2 inch shield wood finish plaque with engraved plate.",
          "caption": "Jazz Critics Poll, 1958",
          "link": "/brown_ray/items/ijc_ray_brown_014.html"
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        "start_date": { 
          
          "year": "1958"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Jazz Critics Poll, 1958",
          "text": "Ray Brown Bass Jazz Critics Poll Down Beat, 1958.  7 1/2 x6 1/2 inch shield wood finish plaque with engraved plate."
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          "alt": "The Blue Note salutes its Godfather jazz bassist Raymond (Ray) Brown on his 75th birthday, New York, October 13, 2001.  14 x 11 1/2 inch wood finish plaque with engraved plate.",
          "caption": "The Blue Note salutes its Godfather jazz bassist Raymond (Ray) Brown, October 13, 2001",
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          "headline": "The Blue Note salutes its Godfather jazz bassist Raymond (Ray) Brown, October 13, 2001",
          "text": "The Blue Note salutes its Godfather jazz bassist Raymond (Ray) Brown on his 75th birthday, New York, October 13, 2001.  14 x 11 1/2 inch wood finish plaque with engraved plate."
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        "media": {
          "url": "https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/ijc/brown_ray/small/ijc_ray_brown_016_sm.jpg",
          "alt": "Congratulations and Happy Birthday to the legendary bassist and godfather of The Blue Note Ray Brown on your 70th birthday, October 13, 1996.  12 x 9 inch wood finish plaque with engraved plate.",
          "caption": "Congratulations and Happy Birthday, October 13, 1996",
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          "month": "10",
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          "headline": "Congratulations and Happy Birthday, October 13, 1996",
          "text": "Congratulations and Happy Birthday to the legendary bassist and godfather of The Blue Note Ray Brown on your 70th birthday, October 13, 1996.  12 x 9 inch wood finish plaque with engraved plate."
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          "alt": "Los Angeles Jazz Society salutes Ray Brown for his contribution Jazz Tribute Award, 1993.  10 x 12 inch wood finish plaque with engraved plate.",
          "caption": "Jazz Tribute Award, 1993",
          "link": "/brown_ray/items/ijc_ray_brown_017.html"
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          "year": "1993"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Jazz Tribute Award, 1993",
          "text": "Los Angeles Jazz Society salutes Ray Brown for his contribution Jazz Tribute Award, 1993.  10 x 12 inch wood finish plaque with engraved plate."
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