HMR Project: History of Music & Modern Recording

History of Music & Recording Project

From Medieval to Groups & Musicians Issuing on Vinyl by 1970

Based on research at

Profiles by Order of Publishing Date

Current Issue Classical: 14 Nov 2024 #421 Franz Liszt

Current Issue Modern Recording: 14 Nov 2024 #422 Wild Bill Davison

Special Issue Early Salsa: 14 Nov 2024 #101 Ignacio Piñeiro

Launch: 31 Dec 2021:

The index below is the drop of 120 issues initiating the HMR Project in 2021 which comes in two constellations, classical and modern recording. The VF History which I use for notes approaches 2700 musical profiles so the big premiere below comes to about 4.44% of VF. Written from May to November 2021, artists were selected for organizational reasons, as well as to lend some indication of where HMR will be heading: all about the western hemisphere from early classical to artists found on a commercial issue by 1970. Genres were something lopsided in this first drop due to emphasis on earlier time periods.

This update in November 2022 is occasioned by accomplishing about 10% of the VF History with a drop of Torelli, Roy Brown and Jimmie Noone, requiring about a year and half of long days since May of 2021 (excepting December busy otherwise). If my math is right I'm looking at quite a few years to finish the remaining 90%. In the meantime I'm keeping to a chronological procedure through classical, currently at the hem of high baroque about 1600 years from where we started in the Middle East. In modern recording we're well into the acoustic period of the Roaring Twenties in popular, jazz and blues.

HMR is otherwise sectioned into nine categories not counting boogie woogie. The three major are Classical, Jazz and R&B-Rock. Less extensive are Black Gospel, Blues, Folk, Country (C&W), Latin and Popular. All profiles below share the same initial launch date of New Year's Eve 2021.

Update July 2023: The HMR Project had to be discontinued in April 2023 per technical issues with the server. Made aware of exhaustion as well, I've taken the summer off.

 

Black Gospel Relevant:

#2 Black Gospel

#62 Arizona Dranes

#1 Fisk Jubilee Singers

#80 Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet

 

Bluegrass Relevant:

#87 John Carson

#88 Uncle Dave Macon

#21 Eck Robertson

 

Blues:

#6 Pee Wee Crayton - US

#60 Arthur Crudup - US

#68 Thomas Dorsey - US

#3 William Handy - US

#81 Papa Charlie Jackson - US

#64 Sammy Price - US

#7 Henry Townsend - US

#69 T-Bone Walker - US

#70 Muddy Waters (R&B) - US

#4 Sylvester Weaver - US

 

Boogie Woogie:

#59 George Washington Thomas Jr.

#86 Hersal Thomas

 

The Caribbean:

#91 Eusebio Delfin - Cuba

#92 Rita Montaner - Cuba

#46 Maria Vera - Cuba

 

Classical:

#102 Peter Abelard - France

#119 Bernart de Ventadorn - France

#13 Ludwig von Beethoven - Germany

#10 Giulio Caccini - Italy

#18 Claude Debussy - France

#19 Paul Dukas - France

#17 Antonin Dvorak - Bohemia (Czech)

#14 Mikhail Glinka - Russia

#11 George Handel - Germany to England

#103 Hildegard of Bingen - Germany

#89 Kassia - Eastern Orthodox

#104 Marcabru - France

#15 Carl Reinecke - Germany

#9 Romanos the Melodist - Eastern Orthodox

#16 Camille Saint-Saens - France

#5 John Philip Sousa - US

#12 Giuseppe Tartini - Venice

#20 Kurt Weill - Germany

#78 Yared - Eastern Orthodox

 

Country Western Relevant:

#23 Vernon Dalhart

#79 Carson Robison

#90 Carl Sprague

 

Doo Wop:

#53 Doo Wop

 

Flamenco (Spain):

#44 Antonio Chacon

#94 Ramon Montoya

#93 La Niña de los Peines

 

Folk:

#66 Carter Family - US

#63 Bob Dylan - US

#101 Jerry Garcia - US

#96 Davey Graham - UK

#65 Tommy Makem - Ireland

#82 Jimmie Rodgers - US

#22 Vaughan Quartet (gospel) - US

 

Jazz:

#34 Kenny Barron - US

#37 Karl Berger - Germany to US

#24 Buddy Bolden - US

#39 Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - South Africa

#38 Gary Burton - US

#110 Philip Catherine - UK to Belgium

#36 Big Sid Catlett - US

#77 Nat King Cole - US

#85 Julian Dash - US

#35 Joe Ferrell - US

#75 George Gershwin - US

#58 Don Sugarcane Harris (fusion) US

#109 Marion Harris - US

#29 Coleman Hawkins - US

#108 James Price Johnson (stride) - US

#49 Louis Jordan - US

#83 Ted Lewis - US

#26 Jimmie Lunceford - US

#32 Django Reinhardt - France

#30 Pee Wee Russell - US

#25 Wilbur Sweatman - US

#28 Ethel Waters - US

#31 Mary Lou Williams - US

 

Popular Early including Ragtime:

#105 John Bieling - US

#112 Albert Campbell - US

#117 Arthur Collins - US

#74 Meyer Davis - US

#84 William Denny - US

#114 SH Dudley - US

#116 Fred Van Eps - US

#76 James Reese Europe - US

#98 George Gaskin - US

#120 Byron Harlan - US

#99 George Johnson - US

#111 Ada Jones - US

#106 Richard Jose - US

#118 Harry Macdonough - US

#113 Billy Murray - US

#107 JW Myers - US

#27 Vess Ossman - US

#115 Steve Porter - US

#41 Len Spencer - US

 

Popular "Late":

(The VF History begins "late" w the advent of the soundtrack. Musically speaking, though, the early fifties per the explosion of television would be more correct. About twenty years between the soundtrack and television would be more at "middle" popular.)

#55 Fontane Sisters - US

#42 Ethel Merman - US

#33 Vaughn Monroe - US

#67 Paul Robeson - US

#43 Tommy Steele - UK

 

Rhythm & Blues:

#56 Cyril Davies - UK

#8 Julia Lee - US

 

Rock:

#57 Ginger Baker - UK

#73 Beach Boys - US

#71 Bill Haley - US

#100 Elvis Presley - US

 

South America:

#47 Francisco Alves - Brazil

#97 Elsie Houston - Brazil

#95 Libertad Lamarque - Argentina

 

Vocal Harmony:

#54 Mills Brothers - US

 

Various Other:

Jazz Sessionographies

#72 Lauriger Horatius

#40 Early Popularity Charts - Billboard

#61 Ragtime

Major Early Record Labels

#51 Early Rock & Blues

#50 Early Rock & C&W

#52 Early Rock & Jazz

#48 Rock Heralds

#45 The Tango

 

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