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Steve Patrick And The Music City Orchestra: Reflections
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Back in the 1960s, sound technologies and in-studio recording/engineering advances were developing rapidly. Labels such as Solid State and Command Records produced brilliant, acoustically enhanced recordings, many done by New York studio greats such as trumpeter Doc Severinsen. Those companies leveraged technical advances to enhance the talents of the recording artists. As a result, it was a musically rich time for record buyers. With Reflections, trumpeter Steve Patrick, long an ardent admirer of Severinsen, delivers ten selections ...
read moreMark Douthit: Groove
by Craig W. Hurst
Nashville is not only the country music capital of the World, but from evidence provided on Mark Douthit’s newest CD Groove, this center of the recording industry certainly is also home to some incredible studio musicians as well. Douthit and his collaborators, many of them first-call session players who are usually the unknowns on recordings backing up singers like Whitney Houston, The Neville Brothers, Elton John, The Temptations, Patti LaBelle and many others, provide a very finely polished, well produced, ...
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