AUTHOR: Larry Appelbaum

Larry Appelbaum was a Music Reference Librarian and jazz specialist in the Music Division at the Library of Congress. As a former Supervisor of the Library’s Magnetic Recording Laboratory, he transferred, edited and mastered many classical, jazz and folk recordings for commercial release. As a critic, he was a contributor to Jazz: The First Century (William Morrow, 2000), The Encyclopedia of Radio (Museum of Broadcast Communications 2003) and Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (Smithsonian Folkways). He wrote regularly for JazzTimes and other magazines and websites around the world, curated a jazz film series, and was a long time radio host on WPFW-FM in Washington D.C.
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