Music & Arts Program of America
Music & Arts Program of America is an independent American record label that was founded in Berkeley in 1984 and initially specialized in jazz and classical music. The short form is often Music & Arts .
The Music & Arts Program of America label was founded by Frederick J. Maroth and is the direct successor of the Educational Media Association of America, Inc. , which was a not-for-profit label aimed at collectors interested in the radio recordings made in Maroths Radio broadcasts were presented. Music & Arts was aimed at a broader audience and initially began with re-releases of recordings of classical music; from 1989 onwards it also published new recordings.
The German Broadcasting Archive works with the label to publish recordings available to the archive, for example by Wilhelm Furtwängler , Eugen Jochum , Walter Gieseking , Hans Hotter , Wilhelm Kempff or Fritz Lehmann .
From the jazz area, for example, radio recordings by Art Tatum , Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington have appeared ; also so far over 70 new releases by musicians of avant-garde jazz , such as u. a. Ran Blake , Anthony Braxton , Marilyn Crispell , Andrew Cyrille , Tim Cobb , Joe Fonda , Georg Graewe ( The View from Points West ), Julius Hemphill , Gerry Hemingway , Larry Ochs , Ivo Perelman , Paul Plimley , John Rapson , Ernst Reijseger , Joe Rosenberg & Affinity , the String Trio of New York and Reggie Workman .
Albums (selection)
- Anthony Braxton: The Braxton Quartet Plays Twelve Braxton Compositions (1993)
- Marilyn Crispell: Contrasts - Live at Yoshi’s (1995)
- Duke Ellington Orchestra: Live at the 1957 Stratford Festival (1957)
- Georg Graewe: Saturn Cycle (1994)
- Paul Plimley: Density of the Lovestruck Demons (1994)
- String Trio of New York: With Anthony Davis (1997)
- Art Tatum : The Standard Transcriptions (1935–45)
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .