Arnold Jay Smith Jazz Vent

reprinted with the kind permission of Tad Hershorn

Archivist Annie Kuebler, veteran of Smithsonian and the

Institute of Jazz Studies, dies at 61

Ann Byrnes Kuebler, an internationally recognized jazz archivist whose credits include opening the treasures of the Duke Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian Institution and that of pianist/composer/arranger Mary Lou Williams at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, died Monday, August 13 at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City NJ at the age of 61.  The cause of death was a brain hemorrhage, according to her family.