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  • Royal garden blues [by] Clarence and Spencer Williams. [Sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Camden, N. J., RCA Victor 20-2324A P182. [193-?]
    • 1930-1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-18Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Tishomingo blues [sound recording] fox trot.

    • Audio
    • [New York] Brunswick 80049B. 1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-6 [Side 2, no. 8] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 49) 2-track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • I found a new baby. [Sound recording] Jack Palmer - S. Williams.

    • Audio
    • New York: Asch 715 351-3B. [194-?]
    • 1940-1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-30 [Side 2, no. 4] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 21) 2 track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Shim-me-sha-wabble [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • New York : Brunswick 4885 80005B. 1930.
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-38 [Side 1, no. 2] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 8) 2 track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • I found a new baby [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Camden, N. J.: Bluebird B-7695B. [194-?]
    • 1940-1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-34 [Side 2, no. 2] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 7) 2 track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Twelfth street rag [sound recording] / Williams-Bowman.

    • Audio
    • New York: Columbia C28-7 35663 80864, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-43 [Side 2, no. 5] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 30) 2 track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • I ain't got nobody, and nobody cares for me [sound recording] / Spencer Williams - Roger Graham.

    • Audio
    • New York : Decca 18252B 265173, [193-?]
    • 1930-1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-55 [Side 1, no. 4] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 21) 2 track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • The dance they call the Georgia hunch [sound recording] / C. Williams-S. Williams-L. Wade.

    • Audio
    • New York : Okeh 8029B, [194-?]
    • 1940-1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-86 [Side 2, no. 4] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 24) 2 track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • A treasury of the blues : complete words and music of 67 great songs from Memphis blues to the present day / edited by W.C. Handy ; with an historical and critical text by Abbe Niles ; with pictures by Miguel Covarrubias.

    • Notated music
    • [New York] : Charles Boni, [1949]
    • 1949-1949
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMF 25-346Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
    Not available - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc 784.7-H (Handy, W. Treasury of the blues)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Blues : an anthology / edited by W.C. Handy ; with an introduction by Abbe Niles ; illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias.

    • Notated music
    • New York : Albert & Charles Boni, 1926.
    • 1926-1926
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMG 25-1443Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
    Not available - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc 784.7-H (Handy, W. Blues: an anthology. 1926)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
    Not available - In use until 2026-05-28 - Please for assistance.
  • [Popular songs / composed by Maceo Pinkard and others].

    • Notated music
    • 1918-1956.
    • 1918-1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc Scores PinkardSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Birmingham Black bottom : the first all Black cast talkies.

    • Moving image
    • Newton, NJ : Shanachie, c1997.
    • 1997-1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual VRA-293Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Breakfast feud [sound recording] : fox trot / Benny Goodman. I found a new baby : fox trot / S. Williams ; [Jack] Palmer.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Columbia, [1941?]
    • 1941-1940
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LO 4498 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • George Williams and Bessie Brown. Volume 1, 1923-1925 [sound recording] : complete recorded works in chronological order.

    • Audio
    • Vienna, Austria : Document Records, p1997.
    • 1997-1923
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 34476 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 34476 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • West Indian blues [sound recording] / S. Williams-E. Dowell-C. Williams. Sly mongoose (the dogs know your name) / Sneed.

    • Audio
    • United States : Decca, [1939]
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LO 7631Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Sugar blues [sound recording] / Clarence Williams, Lucy Fletcher. Basin Street blues / Spencer Williams.

    • Audio
    • Detroit, Mich. : Vogue, [1946?]
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LO 7199Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930 / book by Flournoy E. Miller, lyrics by Andy Razaf, music by Eubie Blake.

    • Text
    • c1930.
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music M.C. (Blackbirds of 1930)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Rhythm saved the world [sound recording] / Chaplin-Cahn. Mahogany hall stomp / Spencer Williams.

    • Audio
    • United States : Decca, [1936]
    • 1936
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LO 7752Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LO 7752Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Basin Street blues [sound recording] / Spencer Williams. I'm gonna play in the varsity band / Samuels- Whitcup-Powell.

    • Audio
    • U[nited] S[tates] : Decca, [1935]
    • 1935
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LO 7814Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Crescent city summit, Aug. 3, 1990 [sound recording] : traditional New Orleans jazz.

    • Audio
    • Aug. 3, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 42806Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDCO 783Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDCO 783Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The gentleman is a dope [sound recording] : from musical production "Allegro" / Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II. It's the bluest kind of blues (My baby sings) / Django Reinhardt-Spencer Williams-John Turner.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Decca, [1947]
    • 1947
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LO 7323Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Senorita mine : Spanish fox-trot / lyric by Spencer Williams and Eddie Rector ; music by Clarence Williams and Thomas (Fats) Waller ; uke arr. by Gus Horsley.

    • Text
    • New York : Clarence Williams Music, c1926.
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music M.C. (Tan town topics revue)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • September in the rain / Dubin-Warren. I found a new baby / Palmer-Williams. S'Wonderful / Ira and George Gershwin. Spanish omelette / Todd.

    • Audio
    • [Hollywood, Calif.] : Vdisc, [1946].
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LR 11911Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Twelfth Street rag / lyric by Spencer Williams ; music by Euday L. Bowman ; ukulele arrangement by May Singhi Breen.

    • Notated music
    • Kansas City, Mo. : J.W. Jenkins Sons Music, [1929]
    • 1929-1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music M.C. (Close harmony. Twelfth Street Rag)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • American originals 1918 / Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, John Morris Russell.

    • Audio
    • [Cincinnati, Ohio] : Fanfare Cincinnati, [2018]
    • 2018-2017
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=FC-013
  • Rare blues of the twenties. No. 5.

    • Audio
    • Canarsie, Brooklyn, N.Y. : Historical Recordings, [197-?]
    • 197
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LRX 5871 v. 5Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Prague : ends with discussion with audience, July 1, 1993 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the National Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.

    • Moving image
    • 1993.
    • 1993-701
  • Prague : ends with Bill discussion Central Europe, July 2, 1993 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the National Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.

    • Moving image
    • 1993.
    • 1993-702
  • Soon ; Last night on Earth ; D-man in the waters, August 14, 1993 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1993.
    • 1993-814
  • La grande fête ; Speeding in tantrum ; Last night on Earth ; D-man in the waters, August 28, 1993 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Sean Curran.

    • Moving image
    • 1993.
    • 1993-828
  • Matinee performance : La grande fête ; Speeding in tantrum ; Soon ; Last night on Earth ; D-man in the waters, August 29, 1993 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Sean Curran.

    • Moving image
    • 1993.
    • 1993-829
  • Night performance : La grande fête ; Speeding in tantrum ; Soon ; D-man in the waters ; Rehearsal of Achilles loved Patroclus, August 29, 1993 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Sean Curran.

    • Moving image
    • 1993.
    • 1993-829
  • Soon ; The gift/no god logic ; Last night on Earth, April 15, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-415
  • Soon ; After black room ; BTJ solo ; D-man in the waters, April 23, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Virginia Museum Theatre in Richmond, Virginia ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-423
  • Soon ; After black room ; Last night on Earth, May 31, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Haifa, Israel ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-531
  • Soon ; And the maiden ; War between the states, June 3, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Jerusalem, Israel ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-603
  • Soon ; After black room ; Last night on Earth, June 4, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Jerusalem, Israel ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-604
  • Soon ; After black room ; Bill solo ; War between the states, July 3, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the Page auditorium at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-703
  • Soon ; The gift/no god logic ; After black room ; D-man in the waters, July 11, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the Museo degli strumenti musicali di Roma in Rome, Italy ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-711
  • The gift/no god logic ; Soon ; After black room ; D-man in the waters, July 12, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the Museo degli strumenti musicali di Roma in Rome, Italy ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-712
  • Soon ; The gift/no god logic ; After black room ; Int. ; D-man in the waters, July 20, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Bolzano, Italy ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-720
  • Fano, Italy, August 4, 1997 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1997.
    • 1997-804
  • Soon ; After black room ; Bill's solo ; War between the states, July 1, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the Page auditorium at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-701
  • Soon ; Havoc in heaven ; Achilles loves Patroclus ; D-man in the waters, April 2, 1994 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Le Manège in Maubeuge, France ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1994.
    • 1994-402
  • Ballad ; Blue phrase ; Soon ; Love redefined, October 26, 1996 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Zellerbach Auditorium in Berkeley, California ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1996.
    • 1996-1026
  • Ballad ; Soon ; Some songs, March 7, 1997 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Festival Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1997.
    • 1997-307
  • Shared distance ; Love redefined ; Soon ; Some songs, April 3, 1997 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1997.
    • 1997-403
  • Soon ; New duet ; Some songs, April 4, 1997 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1997.
    • 1997-404
  • Soon ; Love redefined ; New duet ; Some songs, April 5, 1997 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington ; choreography by Bill T. Jones.

    • Moving image
    • 1997.
    • 1997-405
  • Soon ; After black room ; Shared distance ; Some songs, May 28, 1997 / performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Teatro Sérgio Cardoso in São Paulo, Brazil ; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.

    • Moving image
    • 1997.
    • 1997-528

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