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 to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
- ... 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 Light Vessel 95 is now a recording studio?
- ... 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: December 24
- Mike Curb, American record producer, turns 80.
- Jan Akkerman, Dutch guitarist with Focus, turns 78.
- Chucho Merchán, Colombian bass player, turns 72.
- Ralph Moore, Brit tenor saxophonist, turns 68.
- Ian Burden, Brit keyboardist with The Human League, turns 67.
- Michael Ray, American trumpeter with Sun Ra, turns 62.
- Mary Ramsey, American folk music singer with 10,000 Maniacs, John & Mary, turns 61.
- Doyle Bramhall II, American guitarist, turns 56.
- Will Oldham, American songwriter, turns 54.
- Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican pop music singer, turns 53.
- Paal Nilssen-Love, Norwegian jazz drummer, turns 50.
- Joe Washbourne, (born Joseph Washbourne) Brit keyboardist and vocalist with Toploader, turns 49.
- Dima Bilan, (born Viktor Belan) Karachay-Russian pop artist, turns 43.
- Aiba Masaki, Japanese actor singer and J-pop with the boy band known as Arashi, turns 42.
- Louis Tomlinson, English pop singer, actor, footballer and member of One Direction, turns 33.
- Lemmy (Record production, 1945 –December 28, 2015), (born Ian Fraiser Kilmister) Brit bassist with Hawkwind, Motörhead, would have turned 79 this year.
- Woody Shaw (Record production, 1944 –May 10, 1989), American trumpeter, would have turned 80 this year.
- Volker Kriegel (Record production, 1943 –June 14, 2003), German guitarist, would have turned 81 this year.
- Bernt Rosengren (Record production, 1937 –May 15, 2023), Swedish tenor saxophonist, would have turned 87 this year.
- Chris McGregor (Record production, 1936 –May 26, 1990), South African bandleader and pianist, would have turned 88 this year.
- John Critchinson (Record production, 1934–December 15, 2017), Brit hard bop pianist, would have turned 90 this year.
- Tatsuya Takahashi (Record production, 1931 –February 29, 2008), Japanese bandleader and tenor saxophonist, would have turned 93 this year.
- Mauricio Kagel (Record production, 1931 –September 18, 2008), Argentine composer, would have turned 93 this year.
- Ray Bryant (Record production, 1931 –June 02, 2011), American jazz pianist, would have turned 93 this year.
- Jimmy Campbell (1928 – 1998), American session musician (drummer), would have turned 96.
- Mohammed Rafi (Record production, 1925 –July 31, 1981), Indian actor and playback singer, would have turned 99 this year.
- Lee Dorsey (Record production, 1924 –December 01, 1986), American singer, would have turned 100 this year.
- Henry Coker (Record production, 1919 –November 23, 1979), American trombonist, would have turned 105 this year.
- Dave Bartholomew (Record production, 1918 –June 23, 2019), American songwriter, arranger, trumpeter and vocalist, would have turned 106 this year.
- Al Drootin (Record production, 1916 –January 10, 2016), American clarinetist, would have turned 108 this year.
- Ralph Marterie (Record production, 1914 –October 10, 1978), American big band trumpeter and bandleader, would have turned 110 this year.
- Fumio Nanri (Record production, 1910 –August 04, 1975), Acclaimed Japanese jazz trumpeter, would have turned 114 this year.
- Jabbo Smith (Record production, 1908 –January 16, 1991), (born Cladys Smith) American trumpeter and vocalist, would have turned 116 this year.
- Franz Waxman (Record production, 1906 –February 24, 1967), American composer, would have turned 118 this year.
- Baby Dodds (Record production, 1898 –February 14, 1959), (born Warren Dodds) American drummer, would have turned 126 this year.
- Punch Miller (Record production, 1894 –December 02, 1971), (born Ernest Miller) American dixieland trumpeter, would have turned 130 this year.
- Harry Warren (Record production, 1893 –September 22, 1981), (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna) American composer and lyricist, would have turned 131 this year.
- Henry Russell (Record production, 1812 –December 08, 1900), Brit composer and baritone vocalist, would have turned 212 this year.
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