page_title: National Recording Registry
section_title: 2012
hierarchical_section_title: National Recording Registry / Inductees / 2012
caption_attribution_description: English: Ornette Coleman at Enjoy Jazz Festival 2008, Heidelberg, Germany.
context_page_description: The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress. The recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry form a registry of recordings selected yearly by the National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress.
  The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 established a national program to guard America's sound recording heritage. The Act created the National Recording Registry, The National Recording Preservation Board and a fund-raising foundation. The purpose of the Registry is to maintain and preserve sound recordings and collections of sound recordings that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Beginning in 2002, the National Recording Preservation Board has selected recordings nominated each year to be preserved.
  The first four yearly lists each had 50 selections.
context_section_description: On March 21, 2013, the following 25 selections were announced.
caption: Ornette Coleman, innovator of free jazz
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