Please to recommend some "in the studio" bios

erewhon

I'm looking for something like 'Tom Dowd and The Language of Music', but in book form. You know: good music bios with a heavy slant towards how the recordings actually came together in the studio.

Jonny_Paycheck

If you can find it, check "View From Within" by Orrin Keepnews. Long out of print but great recollections of recording with guys like Monk, Bill Evans, and so on.

DocMcCoy

I'm looking for something like 'Tom Dowd and The Language of Music', but in book form. You know: good music bios with a heavy slant towards how the recordings actually came together in the studio.

Ashley Kahn's "Kind Of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece" is a pretty good read. I think the same writer's done (or is about to do) a similar book on "A Love Supreme", but I've not come across that one.

Beatnicholas

Ashley also did

" The House That Trane Built: the Story of Impulse "

which is good!

I need that book by Orrin K.. what a legend!

pjl2000xl

http://www.recordingthebeatles.com/

Birdman9

If you can find it, check "View From Within" by Orrin Keepnews. Long out of print but great recollections of recording with guys like Monk, Bill Evans, and so on.

I think most of it is culled from liner notes he did for sessions he produced, if I remember correctly. And it is a great read.

Swayze

I got this shit for 10 bucks, on dusty groove. Its a nice comp. Very nice.

Zeke

If you can find it, check "View From Within" by Orrin Keepnews. Long out of print but great recollections of recording with guys like Monk, Bill Evans, and so on.

What a great book.

Anyone looking for a copy can find a few being sold used for under $5 on Amazon.