When you think of jazz music, Louis Armstrong is probably one of the first names that come to mind, and not because he stands among the genre’s best musicians, but because he was a crowd pleaser, a real people person. His song ”What a Wonderful World” is still considered to Read more...
Ready to go back…to the future?
Native Instruments is happy to facilitate, via the UK studio that’s beginning to loom larger than (virtually) any of the artists that have recorded there – we speak of course of Abbey Road. The new KONTAKT instrument that NI created is Abbey Road 50s Read more...
Royalty-free loops creator Soundtrack Loops, has launched the new “Jazzy Chill Out” collection of loops, samples, and MIDI files.
The 24 bit 44.1kHz Stereo loop set, available for $26, is subdivided into 7 construction kits, with 104 loops in total. The construction kit folders contain strings, basses, pads, Rhodes, electric Read more...
If you blinked during Sunday’s GRAMMY telecast, you might have missed the fact that the iconic jazz recordist Rudy Van Gelder was honored by the Recording Academy with a 2012 Trustees Award.
Van Gelder is credited with engineering thousands of jazz recordings from his Englewood Cliffs, NJ studio. Although many Read more...
Every month, Matt McCorkle of EqualSonics.com brings you a day in the life of a New York City recording engineer.
THE MISSION: Capture a Jazz Band’s Subway Performance
NYC artist Jonathan Batiste and I had been working together for quite some time before embarking on this latest endeavor. Our most Read more...
