Denny Zeitlin, Both/And (Sunnyside) One-man bands have come a long way since 1941, when Sidney Bechet recorded “The Sheik of Araby.†Playing clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophones, piano, bass and drums, Bechet and the RCA engineers laboriously added an instrument in each of a succession of … [Read more...]
Archives for August 6, 2013
Making Records The Hard Way
For an idea of what the RCA post-production crew went through half a dozen times to make the two-and-a-half-minute Sidney Bechet record mentioned in the Zeitlin review in the post above, watch these films about the complexities of the record-making process 72 years ago. The narrator is Milton Cross, … [Read more...]