Portal:Record production
The Record Production Portal
This portal is focused on music production within the era of written records through sound recordings, digital downloads, and beyond. Its scope includes articles that document the considerations and mechanisms used by, and consistent with, the purview of the production element. As an art form, music predates transcription and simultaneously transcends descriptive limitations. As an industry, music has demonstrated consistent viability over time. The record producer conjoins these potential, and serves as a broker to bridge the demand (spawned by their aspirations) with supply and satisfaction. The results are measurable and attributable, derived from effort and skillful application of craft, to a manifestation of the art in its melodic form. (Read more)
The music industry consists of the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate in the industry are: the songwriters and composers who write songs and musical compositions; the singers, musicians, conductors, and bandleaders who perform the music; the record labels, music publishers, recording studios, music producers, audio engineers, retail and digital music stores, and performance rights organizations who create and sell recorded music and sheet music; and the booking agents, promoters, music venues, road crew, and audio engineers who help organize and sell concerts. (Read more)
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- ... that according to Billboard magazine, Laufey created a blueprint for jazz music in the modern music industry and helped push it back into the mainstream?
- ... that until the release of the documentary Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, sexual abuse claims involving record producer Johnny Kitagawa went widely unreported in Japanese media?
- ... that Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... that when Divine's song "Lately" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters, the producers, and the record labels?
- ... that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: May 29
- John Eaton, (born John Livingston Eaton) American music teacher and pianist, turns 90.
- Rebbie Jackson Brown (born Maureen Reillette Jackson), American pop music singer, turns 74.
- Danny Elfman, American film score composer and vocalist of Oingo Boingo fame, turns 71.
- La Toya Jackson, American pop music singer, turns 68.
- Lynne Arriale, American bandleader and jazz pianist, turns 67.
- Kenny Washington, American drummer, turns 66.
- Jim Snidero, American arranger and multi-reedist, turns 66.
- Mel Gaynor, Brit drummer for Simple Minds, turns 65.
- Jesse Johnson, American guitarist with The Time, turns 64.
- Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, turns 63.
- Noel Gallagher, Brit guitarist of Oasis fame, turns 57.
- Wycliffe Gordon, American didgeridoo player and trombonist, turns 57.
- Chan Kinchla, (born Chandler Kinchla) Canadian guitarist with Blues Traveler, turns 55.
- Melanie Brown, (a.k.a. Scary Spice) Brit girl group vocalist of Spice Girls fame, turns 49.
- Sean Jones, American jazz trumpeter, turns 46.
- Hilton Ruiz (Record production, 1952 –June 06, 2006), Puerto Rican jazz pianist, would have turned 72 this year.
- Gary Brooker (Record production, 1945 –February 19, 2022), British singer and songwriter of Procol Harum fame, would have turned 79 this year.
- Sandy Mosse (Record production, 1929 –July 01, 1983), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 95 this year.
- Freddie Redd (Record production, 1928 –March 17, 2021), American composer and pianist, would have turned 96 this year.
- Dick Hafer (Record production, 1927 –December 15, 2012), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Thornel Schwartz (Record production, 1927 –December 30, 1977), American guitarist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Eugene Wright (Record production, 1923 –December 30, 2020), American bass player with The Dave Brubeck Quartet, would have turned 101 this year.
- David "Bubba" Brooks (Record production, 1922 –April 11, 2002), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 102 this year.
- Sam Dutrey (Record production, 1909 –August 27, 1971), American clarinetist, would have turned 115 this year.
- Dick Stabile (Record production, 1909 –September 18, 1980), American bandleader, clarinetist, and saxophonist, would have turned 115 this year.
- Jack Palmer (Record production, 1900 –March 17, 1976), American pianist and composer, would have turned 124 this year.
- Rudolf Tobias (Record production, 1873 –October 29, 1918), first Estonian professional composer, would have turned 151 this year.
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