George Avakian

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Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned TrailerErroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read TrailerAn Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road Trailer

George Mesrop Avakian was an Armenian/American record producer, artist manager, writer, educator and executive. Best known for his work from 1939 to the early 1960s at Decca Records, Columbia Records, World Pacific Records, Warner Bros. Records, and RCA Records, he was a major force in the expansion and development of the U.S. recording industry.

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Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned Trailer (2014)

11 July 2014

From My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock to God Save the Queen, this is the story of ten records from the 1930s to the present day that have been banned by the BBC.

Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read Trailer (2013)

09 April 2013

In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international reputation, and made an indelible mark on the jazz world.

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong Trailer (1999)

27 August 1999

Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile.

Bert Stern - Original Madman Trailer (2011)

02 September 2011

The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern.

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road Trailer (2012)

10 October 2012

In the summer of 1968, a group of people assembled in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They were making a film of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of the Road.

The Miles Davis Story Trailer (2001)

14 April 2001

This British documentary shows the complex layers of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, who was a major innovator in post-bop, cool jazz, hard-bop and fusion.

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a sickly child singing in New Orleans churches to her breakthrough with Columbia Records and her ascendancy to Carnegie Hall and Europe's great stages.