Temples of Sound
Subtitle: Inside the Great Recording Studios
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780811833943
Subjects: Music recording & reproduction; Photographs: collections; United States; Music; History; Music/Songbooks; Sound recording industry; USA; Business Aspects; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History & Criticism - General; Music / Popular; Recording & Reproduction; History and criticism; Popular music
First sentence: Rock and roll may have ruled near the end of the decade, but the 1950s were really the golden age of pop.
Description: All great music has a birthplace. This book tells the stories of the legendary studios where musical genius and a magical space came together to capture some of the most exciting jazz, pop, funk, soul, and country records ever made. From the celebrated Southern studios of Sun and Stax, to the John Coltrane/Miles Davis sessions in producer Rudy Van Gelder's living room, to Frank Sinatra's swinging cuts at state-of-the-art Capitol Records, each of the 15 profiles in this book brings great music to life at the moment of its creation. With a trove of never-before-seen photographs and all-new interviews with the musicians and producers who made the records, this book is an inspiration for music fans.--From publisher description.