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Music man : Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records, and the triumph of rock 'n' roll / Dorothy Wade and Justine Picardie.

Book/Text

New York : Norton, c1990.

1990

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 90-26Item locationOffsite
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He's a rebel / Mark Ribowsky.

Book/Text

New York : Dutton, c1989.

1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 89-2160Item locationOffsite

Reminiscing in tempo : the life and times of a jazz hustler / Teddy Reig with Edward Berger.

Book/Text

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, 1990.

1990

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 90-58Item locationOffsite

Barbara Harris portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1978?-1989?>

1978-1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Harris, BarbaraItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
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Prince portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<198-?>

1980-1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo PrinceItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Listen up : the lives of Quincy Jones / conceived and edited by Courtney Sale Ross ; co-created and designed by Frankfurt Gips Balkind ; essay by Nelson George.

Book/Text

New York : Warner Books, c1990.

1990

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc+ F 97-322Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNF 92-251Item locationOffsite

By the seat of my pants : my life in country music / Buddy Killen with Tom Carter.

Book/Text

New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993.

1993

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 93-69Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 94-546Item locationOffsite

Rhythm and the blues : a life in American music / Jerry Wexler and David Ritz.

Book/Text

New York : Knopf, 1993.

1993

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 93-1741Item locationOffsite

To be loved : the music, the magic, the memories of Motown : an autobiography / Berry Gordy.

Book/Text

New York : Warner Books, c1994.

1994

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 94-648Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 95-1715Item locationOffsite

What a wonderful world : a lifetime of recordings / Bob Thiele ; as told to Bob Golden ; foreword by Steve Allen.

Book/Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 95-904Item locationOffsite

Never sell a copyright : Joe Davis and his role in the New York music scene 1916-1978 / by Bruce Bastin.

Book/Text

Chigwell [England] : Storyville, c1990.

1990

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 95-53Item locationOffsite

Livingston's complete music business directory series. Recording studio/production directory.

Book/Text

Cardiff by the Sea, CA : Distributed by La Costa Music Business Consultants

unknown-present

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML13 .L58Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound - Reference

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Making people's music : Moe Asch and Folkways records / Peter D. Goldsmith.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1998.

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 99-32Item locationOffsite

Jazz scrapbook : Bill Russell and some highly musical friends.

Book/Text

New Orleans, La. : Historic New Orleans Collection, 1998.

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJMD 99-327Item locationOffsite

Moses Asch : [interview].

Book/Text

[New York : American Jewish Committee, Oral History Library, 1986]

1986

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number**P (Oral Histories, Moses Asch)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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Spinning blues into gold : the Chess brothers and the legendary Chess Records / Nadine Cohodas.

Book/Text

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

2000

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 00-656Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Bad boy : the influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the music industry / Ronin Ro.

Book/Text

New York : Pocket Books, c2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 02-279Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Life and Def : sex, drugs, money, and God / Russell Simmons with Nelson George.

Book/Text

New York, N.Y. : Crown Publishers, c2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 02-637Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Motown : music, money, sex, and power / Gerald Posner.

Book/Text

New York : Random House, c2002.

2002

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 03-430Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Nobody told me : from basement band to Jack and the John Lennon sessions / Ken Geringer.

Book/Text

New York : Hipway Press, c2002.

2002

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 03-184Item locationOffsite

Folkways records : Moses Asch and his encyclopedia of sound / Tony Olmsted.

Book/Text

New York : Routledge, c2003.

2003

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 04-2633Item locationOffsite

Columbia retailer. Vol. 1, no. 1 [sound recording].

Spoken word recording

New York : Columbia, [1955]

1955

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*LZR 18499 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Joe Higgins [sound recording] : fifty golden years in the record industry.

Spoken word recording

[S.l.] : Columbia, [1959]

1959

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*LZR 18370 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Teresa Sterne Papers, 1913-1979.

Archival Mix

1913-1979

22 items

Collection information

Finding aid

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 02-9 Box 22 (Folders 240-250)Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 02-9 Box 21 (Folders 238-239)Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 02-9 Box 20 (Folder 237)Item locationOffsite

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Howling at the moon / Walter Yetnikoff, with David Ritz.

Book/Text

New York : Broadway Books, 2004.

2004

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 06-176Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 04-2534Item locationOffsite

Making beats : the art of sample-based hip hop / Joseph Glenn Schloss.

Manuscript

2000.

2000

2 items

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FormatManuscriptCall numberSc D 04-1501Item locationOffsite
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscriptCall numberJMD 04-331Item locationOffsite

Columbia retailer. Volume 1, number 3 [sound recording].

Spoken word recording

New York : Columbia, [1955]

1955

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*LZR 19939 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Making beats : the art of sample-based hip-hop / Joseph G. Schloss.

Book/Text

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2004.

2004

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 04-560Item locationOffsite

Wall of pain : the biography of Phil Spector / Dave Thompson.

Book/Text

London : Sanctuary, 2003.

2003

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 04-5038Item locationOffsite

FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Teo Macero collection, 1949-1992, 1958-1975 (bulk)

Archival Mix

1949-1992

77 items

Collection information

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 00-8Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 00-8Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 00-8Item locationOffsite

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Joe Reisman scores, 1945-1986.

Archival Mix

1945-1986

124 items

Collection information

Finding aid

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 04-17Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 04-17Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 04-17Item locationOffsite

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The Beatles, the Bible, and Bodega Bay : my long and winding road / Ken Mansfield.

Book/Text

Nashville, TN : Broadman & Holman, c2000.

2000

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 06-945Item locationOffsite

White bicycles : making music in the 1960s / Joe Boyd.

Book/Text

London : Serpent's Tail, 2005.

2005

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 06-887Item locationOffsite

The producer : John Hammond and the soul of American music / Dunstan Prial.

Book/Text

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

2006

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 06-813Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Ruthless : a memoir / by Jerry Heller with Gil Reavill.

Book/Text

New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, c2006.

2006

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 07-2014Item locationOffsite

Tearing down the wall of sound : the rise and fall of Phil Spector / Mick Brown.

Book/Text

London : Bloomsbury, 2006.

2006

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberJME 07-526Item locationOffsite

Sean "Diddy" Combs / Kelly Wittmann.

Book/Text

Bloomall, Pa. : Mason Crest Publishers, c2008.

2008

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number*LE 08-6427Item locationOffsite

He's a rebel : Phil Spector : rock and roll's legendary producer / Mark Ribowsky.

Book/Text

Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], c2006.

2006

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 07-3756Item locationOffsite

Young, rich, and dangerous : the making of a music mogul / Jermaine Dupri ; with Samantha Marshall.

Book/Text

New York : Atria Books, 2007.

2007

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 07-6684Item locationOffsite

Making records : the scenes behind the music / Phil Ramone with Charles Granata.

Book/Text

New York : Hyperion, 2007.

2007

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number*LE 08-1699Item locationOffsite

GL 25 [sound recording] : a tribute to Goddard Lieberson.

Spoken word recording

[S.l. : Columbia, 1964]

1964

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*LZR 68668 [Notes]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*LZR 68668 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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White bicycles : making music in the 1960s / Joe Boyd.

Book/Text

London : Serpent's Tail, 2006.

2006

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 08-24Item locationOffsite

The white book / Ken Mansfield.

Book/Text

Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2007.

2007

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 08-457Item locationOffsite

Rock on / Dan Kennedy.

Book/Text

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 2008.

2008

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 08-3113Item locationOffsite

Interview with Richard Mohr [sound recording] / Ben Grauer.

Spoken word recording

May 27, 1963.

1963

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*LDC 44962 [CD. Service copy]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Russell Simmons / Cookie Lommel ; [with an introduction by Chuck D].

Book/Text

New York : Chelsea House, c2007.

2007

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 08-1139Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number*LE 08-6426Item locationOffsite