[Dixielandjazz] Mastering Peggy Lees Jump for Joy: talk by Alan Silverman

[Robert Ringwald]

    Mastering Peggy Lees Jump for Joy: talk by Alan Silverman

This from another email List:





A conference about the mixing and mastering of Peggy Lee's "Jump for Joy" was given by engineer Alan Silverman a while ago. Now the conference has been downloaded to YouTube in the form of three clips.



This is a somewhat technical but still fairly accessible talk that includes diagrams of how the personnel of recording sessions tended to be placed and miked.



For fans of Peggy, the best moment occurs a bit after the 22:00 mark, when Silverman plays Peggy's voice in unprocessed form, with just a bit of leakage from the backing instruments. Here's the clip:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBt-MPBk3zw



In the third clip, around 25:00, you also get to hear Peggy rehearsing one word and Nelson Riddle giving a quick direction to a musician, but unfortunately this is all  too fleeting, and doesn't amount to much. Still, nice to hear:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVSxBPgT-5Y



Incidentally, Silverman mentions that his girlfriend is a jazz singer. Anyone know who she would be?



Ivan





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