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African American Song Includes jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, as well as additional material from the African-American musical tradition. Over 16,000 tracks.

Classical.com A large multi-label database of recordings with over 32 labels.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project: Information on the earliest sound recording format used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The largest collection of digitized cylinders on the Web, with over 6,000 titles.

Internet Archive 78rpm records and cylinder recordings released in the early 20th century. These recordings were contributed by users through the Open Source Audio collection. Artists available here include Ada Jones, Caruso, Eddie Cantor, Edison Concert Band, Harry MacDonough, Len Spencer, Paul Whiteman, and many others.

Naxos.com Includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including classical, jazz, world, and folk musics. Recordings in the Naxos Historical, Nostalgia, and Jazz Legends labels are no longer accessible from the U.S., due to more stringent copyright regulations. NOTE: Please remember to click the red "LOG OUT" button when exiting . . .

Naxos Music Library Jazz One of the most comprehensive collections of Jazz music available online, offering close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,850 albums and over 500 jazz artists. Comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.

Roots Music Listening Room MP3 downloads of folk and blues recordings from the 1920s and 1930s.

Smithsonian Global Sound Includes Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, as well as Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. A great resource for folk and world musics.