@stuogawa - That's awesome. My teenage son also has great taste in music. He listens mostly to the same music as me, but throws in a bit more electronic music and more modern pop'y rock bands. But he's also turned me on to some great music like Neutral Milk Hotel's - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and Titus Andronicus' - "The Monitor".
How does Donald Fagen do it?
It seems, to my ears, that Donald Fagen is able to get an amazing sound out of a mixing board, much better than other producers can. I have read that he is a perfectionist and uses extreme attention to detail when in the studio. Do you notice the same thing in his recordings? A shout out to the late Walter Becker too.
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stuogawa, if your kids want to study at a conservatory, CCM has a small but excellent jazz program. It’s like the Juilliard but without the insane tuition costs. Their art music programs are strong also. https://ccm.uc.edu |
From Wikipedia: "Band leaders Becker and Fagen were dissatisfied with the album's sound quality because of an equipment malfunction with the then-new dbx noise reduction system. The group has claimed that the damage was mostly repaired after consulting with the engineers at dbx, but Fagen and Becker still refused to listen to the completed album." You can hear the problem manifest itself in the way Jeff Porcaro's cymbals sound. They kind of sound out of phase or some other strange effect. Nevertheless, it's one of my favorite Dan albums. Dr. Wu and Rose Darling are two particular favorites. |
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