Charlie's Choice; Stompin' at the Savoy
date: label: recording date
content: 1941
label: release date
content: 1947
name: label: recording artist
content: Christian, Charlie
label: recording artist
content: Minton's House Band
label: manufacturer
content: Vox
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Charlie Christian with The Minton's House Band. side 1: Charlie's Choice [part 2]; side 2: Stompin' at the Savoy [part 2] (Vox 16066), from the album, <i>Charlie Christian Memorial</i> (Vox VSP 302).<br>78 rpm. Tracks for this album were recorded in 1941 and issued by Vox in 1947.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This album features artwork by American painter, printmaker, and teacher, Daniel (Dan) Shapiro (1920-1982). He created the artwork for several albums including recordings by Louis Armstrong, Alex Wilder, Charlie Christian, Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, and Richard Dyer Bennett. Shapiro’s works were first exhibited at the Cooper Union Art School in 1940 and 1941. He had much success with his solo shows in the 1960s at the University of California at San Francisco, Cellini Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Art, and Rice University in Houston.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Jazz
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content: Sound Recordings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucy C. Shain in memory of James Lewis Shain
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0670.677
label: accession number
content: 1978.0670
label: maker number
content: VSP 302
label: maker number
content: 16066
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0670.677
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm