Rooms
The room is one of the instruments
The studios and the engineers: what a room does to a record, and the specific rooms that changed what a record could sound like.
- From His Parents' Living Room in Hackensack to the Studio He Built in Englewood CliffsRudy Van Gelder recorded nearly every important Blue Note, Prestige, and Impulse! session between 1953 and the 1970s — first from a domestic room in New Jersey, then from a studio he designed himself
- What a Twenty-Foot Room Does to a RecordThe room as instrument, the address as sound
- Why Atlantic Kept Sending Its Artists to AlabamaA converted tobacco warehouse in a town of six thousand people produced some of the most commercially successful soul records of the 1960s and early 1970s — and the major labels kept booking it