[Dixielandjazz] Funny Recording Story

[Robert Ringwald]

Al Brogdon told the story and Dick Parks posted it on DJML:

    

Ø  I was reading stuff on the Web site of jazz musician Glenn Zottola,

Ø  where he was writing about the recording of one of his albums, and found

Ø  this funny story:



Ø  Everyone was extremely busy on the road with various bands so I scheduled



Ø  the session in NYC on a day everyone was in town. We did the entire album in



Ø  7 hours straight -- unheard of! Funny story: There was a set-up guy in the



Ø  studio and after we were done he came up to me in shock. He said, “I have



Ø  never seen anything like this before. Last week we had a rock band in here



Ø  and they spent one full week trying to get a balance on the drums and you



Ø  just did an entire album in 7 hours.”



When I lived in Los Angeles and led the Great Pacific Jazz Band with Zeke Zarchy and Bob Havens, we recorded an album in Studio B at A&M  Records. We did the entire recording in about 13 hours over two days. 



The engineer told us that when we were done, a Rock band had the studio reserved 24 hours a day for 6-months to do their recording. He said that they would record a measure, or maybe 4-measures at a time. 



You can see our CD “The Great Pacific Jazz Band,  The Music of Louis Armstrong” at:



www.ringwald.com\recordings.php









-Bob Ringwald
www.ringwald.com
Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
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