I have a great disc by Dave Brubeck called "Old Tiger and Young Lions" or something like that. On each track is a guest artist for whom Brubeck wrote a melody. Each melody was suggested by the name of the guest. In many cases, Dave wrote the melody out on the way to the studio, sitting in back of the limo, and the guest saw it for the first time in the session. On alot of the tracks, they used the first take.
I assume in an improvisational format like jazz, there is some wiggle room, but still, that level of talent just floors me. On Jan 27, 3:57 pm, mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason, > I'll have to say that it's pretty much standard procedure to count on > doing multiple takes on the major sessions, unless of course there are > players there that can just lay it down first take. Some bands can go > in and take a couple and get a useable one. Usually, somebody has to > fix something(frequently it's me) while everybody else sits and eats > miniature Milky Way bars. A lot of times the focus is to get a good > rhythm track or get a track that has a good overall feel and then > start building the finished product. I've heard of artists taking 6 > months and loads of money (upwards of the cost of a Loar) to cut an > album. I wonder what used to happen when people like Ella Fitzgerald > or Frank Sinatra went into the studio? You know as well as I do what > happened. They laid it down and that was that. Being on the road 11 > months out of the year helps with that. > > Hey, all ya'll don't get me wrong. Skaggs is a talented man who's > worked hard and there's no denying that. I'll give him that because > it's a fact. It's that *other* thing I was talking about anyway. Now > I'm done with it. > > Tater > > On Jan 27, 1:37 pm, J Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The only thing I have to say on the topic is that I had heard someplace that > > the Ricky Skaggs and KY Thunder frequently use over-dubs / multiple takes > > and that seems to have tainted my listening to their music. I've heard them > > live and there's no doubt that his band can play and I'll be the first to > > say, as in the recent Yo-Yo Ma inaugural recording discussion, if you can > > play it once you can play it in my book (even if it took you 6 takes to get > > a keeper). All that being said, it does differentiate between the > > recordings we hear today in which recording time can be as cheap as the > > electricity it takes to run your MacBook and the recording days of old in > > which there were 5 guys crowding around a single microphone and recording > > time was a scarce commodity. > > > It very well could be that RS doesn't use multiple takes anymore than any > > other band in which case I don't mean to single them out unfairly. > > > Jason- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
