Music & Arts

Music & Arts Program of America is an independent American record label, founded in Berkeley in 1984 and initially specialized in jazz and classical music. The short form is often Music & Arts.

The Label Music & Arts Program of America was founded Frederick J. Maroth and is the direct successor of the Educational Media Association of America, Inc., which was a non-profit record label and has taught at collectors who were interested in the radio recordings, which in Maroths Radio broadcasts were presented. Music & Arts aimed at a wider audience and began with re-releases of recordings of classical music; from 1989 it also published new recordings. The German Broadcasting Archive is working with the label to publish the archive present recordings such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Eugen Jochum, Walter Gieseking, Hans Hotter, Wilhelm Kempff and Fritz Lehmann.

From the field of jazz, for example, radio recordings of Art Tatum, Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington appeared; also so far, over 70 new releases from musicians of the avant-garde jazz, such as, inter alia, Ran Blake, Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Joe Fonda, George Gräwe ( The View from Points West ), Julius Hemphill, Gerry Hemingway, Larry Ochs Ivo Perelman, Paul Plimley, John Rapson, Serious Reijseger, Joe Rosenberg & Affinity, the string Trio of New York and Reggie Workman.

Selected albums

• Anthony Braxton: The Braxton Quartet Plays Twelve Braxton Compositions (1993 )
• Georg Gräwe: Saturn Cycle (1994 )
• Paul Plimley: Density of the Lovestruck Demons (1994 )
• String Trio of New York: With Anthony Davis ( 1997)
• Art Tatum The Standard Transcriptions ( 1935-45 )