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The Brass Band also recorded Mama Chicago, described as a "Jazz Cabaret", which featured the voices of Phil Minton and Kate Westbrook. The album was released on CD for the first time in 2007. More recently Mike Westbrook has developed the work further and it now includes an adult choir and on occasion, a children's choir at live performances.
The American Epic collection was conceived by director Bernard MacMahon during the ten years of research preparing the American Epic documentary series. [11] “ When we set out to make this set”, MacMahon explained “the first task was culling a representative sample of 100 tracks from that vast body of [1920s and 1930s] recordings.
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Village Voice staff photographer Fred McDarrah, whose work is being exhibited at the New-York Historical Society, captured several of the most important moments in LGBTQ history.
New sound restoration techniques developed for the American Epic film series were utilized to restore the thirteen 1920s and 30s recordings on the album. [4] The 78rpm record transfers were made by sound engineer Nicholas Bergh using reverse engineering techniques garnered from working with the restored first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s in The American Epic Sessions. [5]
[citation needed] A later Village Voice feature story acknowledged Musto's breaking item. The movie " Party Monster " (2003) includes reference to a Musto item, and Musto has appeared in many related documentaries, including "Disco Bloodbath" and A&E's " American Justice ", as well as several Geraldo Rivera shows, where he had long been the ...
Wolf founded the Village Voice on October 26, 1955 with the novelist Norman Mailer and Edwin Fancher, a former truck driver who trained as a psychologist. [7] They started the newspaper with $10,000 and no journalism experience, with Fancher as the publisher, Wolf as the editor-in-chief, and Mailer as a silent partner who supplied most of the capital, following the success of The Naked and the ...
The village's choir became notable when the Universal Music Group album Voices of the Valley was released in November 2006, reaching number 9 on the UK album chart. It became the fastest-selling classical record of all time, achieving gold status in three days and, by 2009, had sold over half a million copies. [ 1 ]