Joe Negri (b. 1926) is a Pittsburgh-based jazz guitarist. He joined the Shep Fields Orchestra at the age of sixteen. After two years in the military, he returned to Pittsburgh and studied music at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University). He performed regularly around the region and played in the band for the KDKA variety show “Buzz and Bill.” In 1960 he became music director at WTAE. He also appeared regularly as Handyman Negri on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He taught jazz guitar for forty-nine years at the University of Pittsburgh and for forty-six years at Duquesne University. The Joe Negri Collection contains original scores, notes, and sound recordings documenting Negri’s career from his childhood to the present.