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PANEL: Recording Technologies and Reception

Michael Spencer, Alan Stanbridge

Published: 2011-09-07

Michael Spencer discusses the rise of Jazz radio alongside the boom of hi-fi jazz music, the roles of advertising and the implications and receptions of such new technologies. Alan Stanbridge explores what it means to record music, specifically the seemingly paradoxical nature of recording improvised music.

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Improvisation is, simply put, being and living this very moment. No one can hide in music, and improvising in music is to be truly in this very moment and being completely yourself, with all your qualities and faults. It is probably the most honest state for a human being to be in.

– John McLaughlin in an interview with Daniel Fischlin.