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Pressed for All Time: Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall
Pressed for All Time Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall Author:Michael Jarrett Histories of jazz slight record producers. They are invisible?generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. And yet, we have a jazz canon?those recordings that define an artform?because of the contributions of producers: such as Milt Gabler, George Avakian, Bob Weinstock, Lester Koenig, Orrin Keepnews, Esmond Edwards, Creed Taylor, Don Schlitten, T... more »eo Macero, Bob Thiele, Ed Michel, Joel Dorn, Tommy LiPuma, Michael Cuscuna, John Snyder, and Bill Laswell. Starting from in-the-moment creations of musicians, they envisioned and fashioned albums that enrich our lives.
For this oral history, all of the above and many other producers were interviewed and asked about the roles they played in making great recordings. What exactly does a jazz producer do, anyway? Clustered around specific records ordered chronologically, their comments tell the story of the jazz album and grant rare behind-the-scene glimpses of how recordings were fashioned. Jazz production emerges as more art than skill: a gift for listening and, then, realizing possibilities.
In this highly entertaining book about record production, we're given a tour through jazz history by a one-of-a-kind cast of insiders. Most of them like to talk. Better still, they all know and love what they're talking about.« less