Synopses & Reviews
Sinatra. Streisand. Dylan. Pavarotti. McCartney. Sting. Madonna. What do these musicians have in common besides their super-stardom? They have all worked with legendary music producer Phil Ramone.
For almost five decades, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. He has produced records and collaborated with almost every major talent in the business. There is a craft to making records, and Phil has spent his life mastering it. For the first time ever, he shares the secrets of his trade.
Making Records is a fascinating look "behind the glass" of a recording studio. From Phil's exhilarating early days recording jazz and commercial jingles at A&R, to his first studio, and eventual legendary producer status, Phil allows you to sit in on the sessions that created some of the most memorable music of the 20th century--including Frank Sinatra's Duets album, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Ray Charles's Genius Loves Company and Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years.
In addition to being a ringside seat for contemporary popular music history, Making Records is an unprecedented tutorial on the magic behind what music producers and engineers do. In these pages, Phil offers a rare peek inside the way music is made . . . illuminating the creative thought processes behind some of the most influential sessions in music history.
This is a book about the art that is making records--the way it began, the way it is now, and everything in between.
Synopsis
Few people have had a hand in as many hit records as legendary producer Phil Ramone, who won his first Grammy in 1964 and his most recent in 2006. For the first time, he dispenses his decades of experience and acumen in Making Records, a fascinating memoir-cum-exploration of the recording process. From Ramone's exhilarating early days recording jazz and commercial jingles at A&R, his first studio, to the tense initial sessions for Sinatra's Duets album, from the thrill of producing Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years, to the technical frustrations recording Lenny Kravitz and Slash, Making Records takes fans inside the studio as nobody has before. Streisand, Dylan, Aretha, Pavarotti, Billy Joel, Elton John, Ray Charles--they're all here, in the pages of this spellbinding book. As much a ringside seat for contemporary popular music history as it is an unprecedented nuts-and-bolts tutorial on the mechanics of the industry, Making Records is a must-have for music lovers everywhere. Anyone who reads this book will never listen to music the same way again.
Synopsis
Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Billy Joel, Dionne Warwick, Ray Charles, Paul Simon, Quincy Jones, Karen Carpenter, Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart, Luciano Pavarotti ??? not to mention Jamie Cullum, The Backstreet Boys, and Bono -- have all had& nbsp; hits produced by Phil Ramone.& nbsp; One of the century??'s most influential and innovative music technicians, Ramone won the first of thirteen Grammy awards for Stan Getz??'s Getz/Gilberto in 1969 and his most recent for Tony Bennett??'s The Art of Romance in 2006. In his first book, he walks the reader through every step of the recording process ??? and along the way, he reveals intimate details about the studio sessions that gave us some of the most legendary songs our our time, including ???Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard??? by Paul Simon, Dylan??'s entire ???Blood on the Tracks??? album, and Billy Joel??'s ???Just the Way You Are.???& nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
About the Author
Phil Ramone was born in 1931. A violin prodigy, he studied at Juilliard before establishing his first music studio in 1961. In addition to his producing activities, Ramone is also extremely active in music and service related organizations. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and the Producers and Engineers Wing, and is a Trustee of the MusiCares Foundation. He lives in Westchester County, NY.