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  • Rhythm and blues [sound recording] : Black American popular music, 1945-1955.

    • Audio
    • 1986
  • The blues world of Little Walter [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Chicago, Ill. : Delmark, [1984]
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 3908Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Pure religion and bad company [sound recording] / Reverend Gary Davis.

    • Audio
    • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways, p1991.
    • 1991-1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 2983 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Lightnin' Hopkins [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Candid, [199-?].
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 3733 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Mystery train [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder, p1990.
    • 1990-1953
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 3876 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Louis Armstrong plays W.C. Handy [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York, N.Y.] : Columbia, [1954]
    • 1954
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 16695 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Big Bill Broonzy [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Century City, Calif : Everest, [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio Sc Audio RE-5331Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • 1o Festival del Jazz di Antibes-Juan-Les-Pins 1960 [sound recording] : live.

    • Audio
    • [Roma] : Blu Jazz, [1991].
    • 1991-1960
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 9820 (F) [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 9820 (F) [Insert]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Let's cut it [sound recording] : the very best of Elmore James.

    • Audio
    • Beverly Hills, CA : Flair Records : Virgin Records America, p1991.
    • 1991-1953
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 4800 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Chicago piano. Vol. one [sound recording] / Jimmy & Mama Yancey.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Atlantic, p1992.
    • 1992-1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 4461 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • [Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters musical selection] [no. 3] [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • [1952-1962]
    • 1952-1962
  • The complete Billie Holiday on Verve, 1945-1959 [sound recording] / Billie Holiday.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Verve, p1992.
    • 1992-1945
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 8125 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The California concerts [sound recording] / Louis Armstrong.

    • Audio
    • [USA] : Decca, p1992
    • 1992-1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 5223 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Voyage au pays du blues = Land of the blues / textes et photos, Jacques Demêtre & Marcel Chauvard ; introduction et supervision, Sebastian Danchin.

    • Text
    • Levallois-Perret, France : Editions CLARB, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 95-79Offsite
  • Billie's best [sound recording] / Billie Holiday.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Verve, p1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 7996 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Billie Holiday : a portrait / produced by Richard Bertematti ; narrated by Michael J. Hostetler ; commentary by Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies librarian, Northwestern University ; [photographs from the many faces of Billie Holiday by Robert O'Meally ; music by Billie Holiday and Benny Goodman ; engineer, Chris Kolosov].

    • Moving image
    • [Evanston, Ill. : R. Bertematti], c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-122Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • The best of B.B. King, volume 1 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Beverly Hills, CA : Ace, p1986-
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 4202 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • John Lee Hooker : the early years [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Tomato, p1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 10863 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Memphis Slim [sound recording] / all songs written by P. Chatman [i.e. Memphis Slim].

    • Audio
    • Universal City, CA : Chess, p1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 2211Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Moanin' in the moonlight [sound recording] / Howlin' Wolf.

    • Audio
    • Universal City, Calif. : Chess/MCA Records, p1986.
    • 1986-1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 2140Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Blue gardenia [sound recording] : songs of love / Dinah Washington.

    • Audio
    • New York : Verve, p1995.
    • 1995-1954
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 12464 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The soul of Ben Webster [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Verve, p1995.
    • 1995-1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 12219 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Dizzy's diamonds [sound recording] : the best of the Verve years / Dizzy Gillespie.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Verve, p1992.
    • 1992-1955
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 7600 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Songs for distingué lovers [sound recording] / Billie Holiday.

    • Audio
    • New York? : Verve, [195-?]
    • 195
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LRX 7519Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Sittin' in with Lightnin' Hopkins [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • London : Mainstream : Legacy, p1991.
    • 1991-1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 11515 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Count Basie swings, Joe Williams sings [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Verve, p1993.
    • 1993-1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 8182 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Muddy Waters sings Big Bill Broonzy [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Universal City, CA : Chess, p1986.
    • 1986-1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 2214Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Juke joint jump [sound recording] : a boogie woogie celebration.

    • Audio
    • New York : Columbia : Legacy : Conqueror, p1996.
    • 1996-1931
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 15979 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Back to back [sound recording] : Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges play the blues.

    • Audio
    • New York : Verve, p1963, c1997.
    • 1997-1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 17447 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The best in blues [sound recording] / Dinah Washington.

    • Audio
    • New York : Verve, p 1997.
    • 1997-1943
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 17515 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Jazz at the Philharmonic [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Clef Records : Verve, p1994.
    • 1994-1945
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 9036 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • All or nothing at all [sound recording] / Billie Holiday.

    • Audio
    • New York : Verve Records, p1995.
    • 1995-1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 13093 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Big Bill Broonzy and Roosevelt Sykes : masters of the country blues.

    • Moving image
    • [Newton, NJ?] : Yazoo Video, Division of Shanachie Records Corp., ©1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-390Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Jesse Fuller and Elizabeth Cotton / directed by John S. Ullman.

    • Moving image
    • Newton, NJ : Yazoo Video, ©1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-520Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • The Sound of jazz [motion picture] / director, Jack Smight.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N. Y. : CBS Television, 1957.
    • 1957
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual MPB-203 Reel 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual MPB-203 Reel 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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  • Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry sing [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Washington DC : Smithsonian Folkways ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Rounder Records, p1990.
    • 1990-1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 3958 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • "Now you can talk about me" [sound recording] / George "Harmonica" Smith.

    • Audio
    • San Francisco, CA : Blind Pig Records, p1998.
    • 1998-1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 19160 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Troubadours of the folk era. Volume 1 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Santa Monica, CA : Rhino, p1992.
    • 1992-1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 4655 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Rushing lullabies [sound recording] / Jimmy Rushing.

    • Audio
    • New York : Columbia/Legacy, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 17322 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Ray Charles rehearsal, March 1953 [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : A No Aunt Tree Production, [2000?]
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 23215Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The soul years [sound recording] : Atlantic Records 25th anniversary.

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Atlantic, p1973.
    • 1973-1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 5505Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Collector's choice [sound recording] : [featuring Professor Longhair].

    • Audio
    • Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, p1996.
    • 1996-1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 13914 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Swing trumpet kings [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Verve, p1996.
    • 1996-1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 15652 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Ultimate Ben Webster [sound recording] / selected by James Carter.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Verve, p1998.
    • 1998-1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 19301 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Spivey's blues parade [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Spivey, [196-?]
    • 1960-1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 4399Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The Bill Broonzy story [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Verve Records, c1999, p1960.
    • 1999-1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 21861 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Little Susie [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York, N.Y.] : Columbia, [1960]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 16784 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Sugar blues [sound recording] / Clyde McCoy.

    • Audio
    • Hollywood, Calif. : Capitol, [1952?]
    • 1952
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZO 423 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Old time record review. Program no. 3.9, Postwar blues no. 1 ; Program no. 3.10, Postwar blues no. 2 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • 194-194
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 32293 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Old time record review. Program no. 3.11, Postwar blues no. 3 ; Program no. 3.12, Postwar blues no.4, Chicago blues [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • 194-194
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 32294 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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