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| 'Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology' Is Definitive Box Set On Genre The highly anticipated 'Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology' box set, available March 29, 2011 via Smithsonian Folkways, is the most definitive musical history of the genre to date. Here's a look at how in-depth and detailed the collection is, for aficionados and first-time fans alike. 'Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology' - by the numbers: · 111 tracks covering an 85 year span (1917-2003) · 6 CDs and 7 hours 45 minutes of music · 200 page book · Covers New Orleans, Dixieland, big band, cool, swing, bebop, hard bop, free, funk, fusion, Latin and contemporary jazz · 129 photographs, many rare · 666 different musicians from 19 countries performing 61 different instruments · 80% of the tracks (90) were not included in the now out-of-print versions of The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz · As many as 20% of the tracks estimated to be not readily available elsewhere commercially (CDs or Downloads) · 7 years in the making · 43-person advisory panel and 35 contributing writers · 145 total contributors (including staff, notes writers editors, designers, audio engineers, image specialists, interns, and volunteers) Pre-Orders Available at folkways.si.edu/jazz, including a package with JAZZ poster and t-shirt. Think you know jazz? Visit the popular quiz-site Sporcle.com to see how many songs from JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology you can recognize. There is a 25-song version and the full 111-song ultimate challenge. JAZZ: The Smithsonian Anthology is a Smithsonian Folkways production with financial assistance by: The Herb Alpert Foundation Herzog & Co., Inc. Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Smithsonian National Museum of American History write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Jazz News :: home page |