Producing a jazz album. An insider’s perspective on Sarah Thorpe’s Never Leave Me, Songs of Love and Longing

Sarah Thorpe’s Never Leave Me, Songs of Love and Longing is a great album. I know because I helped produce it.You might wonder how one goes about producing a jazz singer’s first album. Paradoxically enough, despite the complexity and the uncertainties of the process, it’s actually very simple.Far f...

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Auteur principal: Szlamowicz, Jean
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Miranda 2016
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Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Sarah Thorpe’s Never Leave Me, Songs of Love and Longing is a great album. I know because I helped produce it.You might wonder how one goes about producing a jazz singer’s first album. Paradoxically enough, despite the complexity and the uncertainties of the process, it’s actually very simple.Far from the hype of mass-produced music which requires an industrial approach to music-making—defining a marketing target, a genre, a formulaic sound—jazz musicians proceed with more intuition, not to ...