The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz record ever issued. The group composed and recorded many jazz standards, the most famous being "Tiger Rag". In late 1917, the spelling of the band's name was changed to Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
Timothy Van Patten is an American director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed episodes of Perry Mason, Boardwalk Empire, Black Mirror, Deadwood, Ed, Game of Thrones, The Pacific, Rome, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and The Wire.
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
Vince Giordano is an American saxophonist and leader of the New York-based Nighthawks Orchestra. He specializes in jazz of the 1920s and 1930s and his primary instrument is the bass saxophone. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks have played on television and film soundtracks, including the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Woody Allen's musical comedy film Everyone Says I Love You.
"Some of These Days" is a popular song, written and composed by Shelton Brooks, published in 1910, and associated with the performer Sophie Tucker.
Blond Ambition World Tour Live is a video album by American singer-songwriter Madonna released exclusively on Laserdisc by Pioneer Artists on December 13, 1990. It contained the Blond Ambition World Tour's final show, filmed at the Stade Charles-Ehrmann in Nice, France on August 5, 1990. The concert had previously been broadcast on American network HBO as Live! Madonna: Blond Ambition World Tour 90, and became one of its highest rated specials. The decision to release it exclusively on Laserdisc grew when Pioneer Artists signed up to sponsor the tour; the company also wanted to use Madonna to reach a new demographic and increase Laserdisc sales. It received positive reviews, with some critics saying it captured the concert better than the documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) and the HBO broadcast. At the 34th Annual Grammy Awards, it won for Best Music Video-Long Form, becoming the first Grammy award Madonna received in her career. With over 100,000 copies sold, Blond Ambition World Tour Live was one of the highest selling laserdiscs of the time.
"Mon Homme" is a popular song also known by its English translation, "My Man". The song was originally composed by Maurice Yvain with French lyrics by Jacques-Charles and Albert Willemetz. The English lyrics were written by Channing Pollock.
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is the sixth album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through Geffen Records in December 2007. The album consists of live recordings from his sold-out June 14–15, 2006, tribute concerts at Carnegie Hall to the American actress and singer Judy Garland. Backed by a 36-piece orchestra conducted by Stephen Oremus, Wainwright recreated Garland's April 23, 1961, concert, often considered "the greatest night in show business history". Garland's 1961 double album, Judy at Carnegie Hall, a comeback performance with more than 25 American pop and jazz standards, was highly successful, initially spending 95 weeks on the Billboard charts and garnering five Grammy Awards.
The discography of Rufus Wainwright, a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, consists of seven studio albums, three live albums, three compilations, three extended plays (EPs), three video albums, nine singles, and nine music videos. Wainwright's self-titled debut album was released through DreamWorks Records in May 1998. Wainwright reached number 24 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, and Rolling Stone named him 1998's Best New Artist. Wainwright's second album, Poses, was released through the same label in June 2001, resulting in a number one on the Heatseekers Chart and number 117 on the Billboard 200. With material recorded from the same session, Want One was released through DreamWorks in September 2003, and Want Two was released through Geffen Records in November 2004.
Far is the fifth studio album by American alternative singer-songwriter Regina Spektor, released in Europe on June 22, 2009 and North America on June 23, 2009, through Sire Records.
"Livery Stable Blues" is a jazz composition copyrighted by Ray Lopez (né Raymond Edward Lopez; 1889–1979) and Alcide Nunez in 1917. It was recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band on February 26, 1917, and, with the A side "Dixieland Jass Band One-Step" or "Dixie Jass Band One-Step", became widely acknowledged as the first jazz recording commercially released. It was recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York City at its studio at 46 West 38th Street on the 12th floor – the top floor.
Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of the 1920s and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Winter, a Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer, created the show, inspired by Nelson Johnson's 2002 non-fiction book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, about the historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.
"The Japanese Sandman" is a song from 1920, composed by Richard A. Whiting and with lyrics by Raymond B. Egan. The song was first popularized in vaudeville by Nora Bayes, and then sold millions of copies as the B-side for the song "Whispering".
Catherine Russell is an American jazz singer. She is best known for her 2016 album Harlem on My Mind.
Stewart Lerman is a Bronx born, New York-based, 2x Grammy winning music producer, recording engineer, who has worked with The Roches, Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Patti Smith, Antony and the Johnsons, Angelique Kidjo, Shawn Colvin, Julian Casablancas, Jules Shear, Marshall Crenshaw, Crash Test Dummies, Sharon Van Etten, Nellie McKay, Loudon Wainwright III, Black 47, David Johansen, David Byrne, Willie Nile, Charli XCX, Soulive, Darden Smith, Sophie B. Hawkins, Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent, Regina Spektor, Mumford and Sons, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Vince Giordano, Liza Minnelli, Dar Williams, Carl Hancock Rux and 58 episodes of Boardwalk Empire, 10 episodes of HBO's Viny.
He has also produced music for The Aviator, Revolutionary Road, Grey Gardens, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Mildred Pierce, Moonrise Kingdom, School of Rock, Bessie, The Knick, Begin Again among others, working with directors Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Frank Oz, Barry Levinson, Todd Haynes, John Carney, Woody Allen.
Boardwalk Empire Volume 2: Music from the HBO Original Series is a soundtrack for the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, released in September 2013.
"You've Got Time" is the main title theme song for the Netflix Original Series Orange Is the New Black, written, composed and performed by Regina Spektor. The song was nominated in the Best Song Written for Visual Media category at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.
Jon-Erik Kellso is an American jazz trumpeter and session musician.
Peter and Will Anderson are identical twin American jazz saxophonists and clarinetists, composers and arrangers, and leaders of their own trio and quintet. They have performed at venues including The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Blue Note Jazz.
