ARChive of Contemporary Music

Since then it has been supported by a prestigious Board of Advisors, currently composed of Jellybean Benitez, Michael Feinstein, Youssou N'Dour, Keith Richards, Nile Rodgers, Todd Rundgren, Fred Schneider, Martin Scorsese, Paul Simon and Mike Stoller.

[2] The collection began with 47,000 sound recordings donated by Mr. George accumulated through his work as a DJ, producer and discographer.

(Vocalion, 04108, 78rpm, 10", 1937) While the primary function is preservation, ARC has provided research services and material to many projects - film, music, and academic.

Amongst the film and reissue projects ARC has contributed to are Ken Burns’ series Baseball (1994); Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993), Beloved (1998) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004); Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Goodfellas (1990); and Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock (2009).

Larger projects include providing metadata and images for Microsoft’s Music Central, the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame in Lincoln Center in New York and the Grammy Hall of Fame and Museum in Los Angeles.