Gramophone Shop New York Ny

The Gramophone shop encyclopedia of recorded music

• Author(s): Gramophone Shop, inc. (New York, N.Y.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1942
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Gramophone

• Categories: Audio equipment industry

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1995
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Record Book

• Author(s): David Hall

• Categories: Music

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1948
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• Publisher: New York : O. Durrell

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More Important Than the Music

• Author(s): Bruce D. Epperson

• Categories: Music

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013-10-01
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• Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important Than the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only slightly rarer. Epperson exami...

Esquire

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1937
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• Publisher: Unknown

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