About the book: 2012 / The Age of Recording - in one volume! This is the history of jazz and blues, pop and rock, soul and country, electronics and folk in their characteristic patterns. 777 famous and rare, beloved and forgotten gems of sound recording from the first jazz record to the first song transferred to mp3 format. A journey through the musical world from New York to Tokyo and from London to Sydney, with stops at the studio where rock 'n' roll was born, at a Jamaican street party and in the heart of a technogenic metropolis. 777 tracks - islands in vinyl seas, reference points for sound universes that changed the way music should be played and listened to.