Chick and Satchmo on the Air
Posted by: Laura Jenemann
Learn about Chick Webb's appearances on NBC Radio, with notes of Ella Fitzgerald and Rudy Vallée.
Posted in: Jazz, NBC Radio Collection, Radio, Recorded Sound
Category: Jazz
Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (June 27 – 29, 2019)
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 27 (7:30 p.m.) The Billy Taylor Show (WNJU, 1965) Well-known jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator Dr. Billy Taylor hosted two long-running programs on NPR: the pioneering Jazz Alive!, (1977- 1983) and Jazz at the Kennedy Center (1995-2001), and served …
Posted in: Jazz, Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater
Jazz Appreciation in Moving Images and Recorded Sound
Posted by: Karen Fishman
April is Jazz Appreciation Month! The Smithsonian National Museum of American History began this month-long celebration in 2001 to encourage people to listen to, read about, and play jazz music. Unsurprisingly, jazz is well-represented in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress, from commercial recordings to film and more. …
Posted in: Jazz, Jukebox, National Screening Room, Recorded Sound
Jazz Appreciation in Moving Image and Recorded Sound
Posted by: Amanda Jenkins
April is Jazz Appreciation Month! The Smithsonian National Museum of American History began this month-long celebration in 2001 to encourage people to listen to, read about, and play jazz music. Unsurprisingly, jazz is well-represented in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress, from commercial recordings to film and more. …
Posted in: American Archive of Public Broadcasting, Jazz, Jukebox, Motion Pictures, National Screening Room, Recorded Sound
LIBRARY ADDS 25 NEW TITLES TO NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY!
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
This morning, the Library of Congress announced the newest 25 additions to its National Recorded Sound Registry. Marking its 17th year this year, the National Recording Registry which honors all types of recorded sound–from music to spoken word to radio broadcasts—as long as the recordings have been historically, culturally or aesthetically significant. The latest 25 takes the …
Posted in: Early Recording Industry, Jazz, Jukebox, National Recording Registry, Recorded Sound
Rarities! Mystery! The Marty Alexander Collection
Posted by: Karen Fishman
Today’s post is by David Sager, Research Assistant in the Recorded Sound Research Center. Marty Alexander, a chemist, collected rare 17th Century French furniture and art and also amassed one of the world’s most comprehensive and exotic collections of pre-WWII 78 rpm jazz recordings. After his death in 2009, the Library of Congress acquired the …
Posted in: Jazz, Recorded Sound
At the Packard Campus Theater — October 2018
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
The Packard Campus Theater is highlighting contemporary women directors through the end of the year with a series of films from the 1970s to the present. Throughout the 1970s training and mentorship programs for women directors were established, including Women Make Movies (1972), the Women in Film Foundation (1973), the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women …
Posted in: Jazz, Motion Pictures, Musical Theater, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater, Recorded Sound
The First Jazz Recording: One Hundred Years Later
Posted by: Bryan Cornell
Today's post is by David Sager, Reference Assistant in the Recorded Sound Section, Library of Congress. A momentous happening occurred on February 26, 1917 at the Victor Talking Machine Company, although no one quite suspected so at the time. Among the artists to be recorded that day—consisting of operatic baritone Reinald Werrenrath and tenor Lambert …
Posted in: Early Recording Industry, Jazz, Jukebox, Uncategorized