Sentence examples for important recordings from inspiring English sources

In the late 1950s, the producer John Hammond hired Mr. Driggs at Columbia Records, where he was responsible for reissuing important recordings by Fletcher Henderson, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa and the bluesman Robert Johnson.

Later, in the 1960s, he worked mostly in Texas and Louisiana, and it was for Jewel Records in Shreveport, Louisiana, that he made his first important recordings (though the sessions were in Chicago and supervised by that city's blues godfather, the bassist and composer Willie Dixon).

She also issued important recordings of lesser-known works by Schoenberg, Busoni, Stravinsky and other major figures.

Now, for a six-figure sum, a collector will be able to own the historically important recordings made at the venue in December 1962.

Paul Gerhardt, head of the creative archive project at the BBC, said he was "delighted to facilitate the recovery of these important recordings".

The president of Sony Masterworks, Bogdan Roscic, said that there has been a "pretty massive output of important recordings" from Berlin that wasn't there five years ago.

Happily, all her important live recordings are available on CD.

More important than recordings for the growth of country music was broadcast radio.

Maria Callas, Leontyne Price and others made important studio recordings of roles they never portrayed in the opera house.

The recent Penguin Guide to Jazz calls it "one of the genuinely important American recordings" that "challenged every parameter of the music, tonal, textural, rhythmic and structural".

The Library of Congress has been seeking to preserve important sound recordings for 15 years under terms of a preservation act passed by Congress.