Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team that is tackling this job for you is headed by Editor Wilder Hobson, author of a highly entertaining history of syncopation, American Jazz Music-a phonograph addict who plays the trombone with more vigor than skill. The Music researcher is Mary Gleason, who studied at Smith, Columbia and Trinity College, Dublin, was secretary to the dean of the American University of Beirut, Syria, and later researched for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in London...
Meanwhile, through low-priced concert tickets and his splendid phonograph recordings, Sir Thomas' infliction is something that the U.S. public is suffering very happily. He has become a treasured and crusty feature on the musical landscape of democratic America...
...their programs available to troops all over the globe, the Radio Section had to develop many special facilities. The U.S. Army network now includes 29 short-wave stations; 138 standard-wave stations on United Nations soil and in the theaters of action; 37 U.S. expeditionary-force stations, 6,500 phonograph-radio kits issued to troops at embarkation ports...
...were sold in a single year, the pianola industry hired the greatest pianists, such as Paderewski, to record their performances on perforated paper. It also hired such early jazzers as J. Lawrence Cook and Harlem's historic James P. Johnson. But as the pianola gave ground to the phonograph, the pianola industry could no longer afford to pay for personal recordings...
Most of the pianola artists moved on to greener pastures. But J. Lawrence Cook stayed. He continued to make his own rolls, also produced rolls that accurately ghosted the performances of other jazz improvisers. He did this by listening to their phonograph records, carefully transcribing what he heard into a musical score, then playing his score on Imperial's perforating machine. Today Imperial issues pianola rolls by such jazz artists as Fats Waller, Ted Baxter and Pete Mendoza. All are ghosted by J. Lawrence Cook...