Music
Defacing the Score
Memphis on Broadway
Memphis Shubert Theatre Million Dollar Quartet Nederlander Theatre READ MORE >>
Wynton Marsalis's New 'Swing Symphony' is Brave, Even Heroic
End the Beguine
Peace Process Breakthrough?
Kaballist pop queen Madonna touring Jerusalem holy sites, will meet with Netanyahu on Friday. For real. Wonder what she thinks about a settlement freeze.... READ MORE >>
Get Back
John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman (Ecco) READ MORE >>
The Sound of One Hand Composing
Book of Longing Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen READ MORE >>
Songbook Jam
Mos Def and His Big Band American Songbook, Lincoln Center READ MORE >>
Ye Olde Rocker
Songs From the Labyrinth - Sting (Deutsche Grammophon) READ MORE >>
The Producers
ON THE SEATING CHART of the creative fraternity, record producers occupy one of the rows behind film directors and in front of book editors. In recording, it is the performers who are the "artists," as the music press and the people who run the Grammys like to remind us. Producers, as a rule, are hired by record companies to produce in a fundamentally commercial sense: to supply product. The task involves extraction (from the artists), organization and supervision (of those artists and their work), and collaboration (with the artists), in varying measures; the producer's job is essentially READ MORE >>
