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Photographer Art Kane took the most wonderful photograph in jazz history, featuring 57 of the best jazz musicians ever: A Great Day In Harlem.
Looking for some good Halloween records to search out for your holiday listening? Why not start with this list of Teens and Twenties Halloween Records!
The question of which sound was the first ever to be recorded seems to have a pretty straightforward answer. It was captured in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in the late 1850s, nearly two decades before Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call (1876) or Thomas Edison’s phonograph (1877). But it turns out that, while the answer is clear, the question is complicated.
BBC Radio 3 Late Junction’s Verity Sharp and the co-founder of Finders Keepers Records, Andy Votel, disappeared into the BBC Archives in search of obscure vinyl recordings and rare oddities. They found a surprising, tiny delight…
When college student and roots music fan Lance Ledbetter grew frustrated at the near impossibility of buying 78 rpm gospel records from the 1920s and '30s, he began to ponder a question: What would it take to reissue those old tunes and put them in stores?
- UC Berkeley uses optical scanning to recover indigenous coices from wax cylinders
- After 90 years, Broadway singer gets her headstone
- Kostas Bezos, unsung hero of 1930s Greek music gets cult following
- Thomas Edison's Forgotten Sci-Fi Novel
- Twain and Edison, on the record
- A remarkable temple of sound tucked away in a place called Pala
- Names of Talking Machines
- New Documentary Blends Civil Rights Murders With Hunt for Blues Icons
- Cornell University Celebrates the Voyager Golden Record this week
- Talking Machine Tried As Disturber
- A Phonograph Fiasco
- 5 Amazing Record Archives Where You Can Listen For Free
- Done By The Phonograph: Unique Uses To Which Talking Machines Are Put
- The First Jazz Recording Turns 100
- A Phonograph School For Parrots
- Victrola trademark bought by Long Island Company
- Sounds from Shanghai
- Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archive Opens
- Thomas Edison and the Eclipse of 1878
- Free Discography Downloads
- Edison invented recordings – but it was the phonography studios of Spain that popularised them
- Forget the vinyl comeback. See a house stuffed with antique phonographs.
- Restoring a vintage 1920s recording system for 'American Epic'
- 30,000 78rpm Records Are Now In a Digital Archive