Billy Jacobs is a painter living and working in New York City. A self-described Tom Wilson aficionado, Jacobs’ paintings ...

RPM Raceway now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest multi-level indoor go-kart track, measuring 3,515.7 feet. On Tuesday, May 6, the NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. made the debut ...

Oscar Pettiford performing Juan Tizol’s “Perdido,” with Pettiford on cello, Duke Ellington on piano, Lloyd Trotman on bass, and Jo Jones on drums, recorded for Ellington’s Mercer label in ...

Out of his nearly 10,000 78 RPM records, one of his favorites is “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” by Blind Willie Johnson. “It’s a blues instrumental that was recorded December 1927.

My father had played a little cornet and my mother played piano and sang a little. We had a lot of 78 rpm records in the house. In the beginning I listened to Ben Webster and Johnny Hodges, Don Byas ...

This was brought on by the music industry, two major record labels, Universal Music Group and Sony Music. What can you tell us about this case? Chris Egusa: So this suit was brought against them in ...

King was also a record collector of note, and the gift of his archive — 30,000 45 rpm singles, 10,000 LPs, 20,000 CDs and more than 1,000 other pieces of musical ephemera — would form the ...

Labels will regret attack on IA, archivist predicts. The Great 78 lawsuit is clearly focused on sound recordings, with music publishers claiming IA's ambitions to preserve music history are a ...

Declining record sales forced labels to change their tune in 1925. Columbia’s main rival, Victor, installed an identical recording system. The first electrically made recordings went on sale in ...

The IA is facing a similar, follow-on suit filed by a group of major record labels over its “Great 78” program, which collects vintage 20th-century 78-RPM recordings, digitizes them, and makes ...

More than 350 musicians has come out in support of the Internet Archive after major record labels filed copyright ... over its streaming of 70 to 120-year-old 78 rpm records under its ...

The lawsuit claims the Great 78 Project, which includes pre-1972 musical works by some of music's biggest names including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald and others ...