John Howell wrote:
At 10:31 AM -0800 2/17/06, Carl Dershem wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
It's like an alto player playing one of Duke's Johnny
Hodges features and straightening out all the bent notes.
That's where "elevator muzak' comes from.
Actually muzak is recorded by some of the best musicians in the
business, who can sightread anything and record anything in one take. Or
at least that was the case back in the '60s when I was on tour with one
of the well-known big band leaders who made a pile of cash writing for
muzak. I suspect that the non-imaginative nature of the medium is
required by the ad executives so as not to offend anyone--except
musicians, of course!
I've done a few commercial sessions, and other stuff that probably has
ended up as 'muzak', and it's almost always just one take, unimaginative
arranging (or perhaps *constrained* arranging, the better to fit the
desires of the customer), and then on to the next. Even when the
musicians can hear a way to make it work better, they just don't have
the time or freedom to do so.
But still, the vast majority of it is trying to fit the relatively
free-form music that becomes popular into a very constrained box.
cd
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