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: 22 Dec 2024 #431 Joachim Raff Tolerates Pushy Joseph Joachim
Current Issue Modern Recording: 22 Dec 2024 #432 Stephane Grappelli
Special Issue Early Hokum Blues:
22 Dec #106 Doc Cheatham
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. 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.
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
nigh a year and half of long days since
May of 2021. I'm 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.
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.
Update December 2024: On the 15th of December my computer was attacked and
wiped out. The HMR Project is therefore shut down. I was well into the
Romantic period by then and had only just completed the first four decades
of modern recording. With four to go, I had intended to begin the early
thirties in Brazil around the time that Carnival began. But I yet need to
replace my computer and attend to other tasks before I continue. I'm
deliberately taking some time off with a bad attitude, but hope be back to
music history perhaps by February or March of 2025.
Black Gospel Relevant:
#80 Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
Bluegrass Relevant:
Blues:
Boogie Woogie:
#59 George Washington Thomas Jr.
The Caribbean:
Classical:
#119 Bernart de Ventadorn - France
#13 Ludwig von Beethoven - Germany
#17 Antonin Dvorak - Bohemia (Czech)
#11 George Handel - Germany to England
#103 Hildegard of Bingen - Germany
#9 Romanos the Melodist - Eastern Orthodox
#16 Camille Saint-Saens - France
Country Western Relevant:
Doo Wop:
Flamenco (Spain):
Folk:
#22 Vaughan Quartet (gospel) - US
Jazz:
#37 Karl Berger - Germany to US
#39 Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - South Africa
#110 Philip Catherine - UK to Belgium
#58 Don Sugarcane Harris (fusion) US
#108 James Price Johnson (stride) - US
Popular Early including Ragtime:
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.)
Rhythm & Blues:
Rock:
South America:
#95 Libertad Lamarque - Argentina
Vocal Harmony:
Various Other:
Classical Main Menu Modern Recording
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