According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, the French horn in jazz dates back to 1921. By the 1930s, the instrument was popping up on recordings by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman. In the 1940s, Artie ...

In 1938, Ella Fitzgerald sang her first big hit, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," for a national audience on CBS Radio. Now, a global audience has access to this performance again — thanks to the discovery and ...

At 21, Alan Lomax went to Haiti and recorded its citizens making music - songs about Voodoo, carnival politics, children's games and the first airplanes crisscrossing its Caribbean skies in the late ...