"Roast Beef of Old England: Traditional Sailor Songs from Jack Aubrey's Navy," produced by Jerry Bryant for Mr. Kapp's record label, Essay Recordings, was released last September, with songs like "Spanish Ladies" and "Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy".
A young CLR James sailed to London from Trinidad in 1932, and wrote nine essays recording his responses for the Port of Spain Gazette.
During the nineteen-seventies, Beck published three more novels and a collection of political essays, recorded a spoken-word LP, was profiled in magazines and newspapers, and became a bona-fide L.A. celebrity.
Results turn up authoritative, encyclopedic entries with serious essays and record-by-record reviews, including lots of out-of-print stuff.
That's why Steve Jobs' recent essay urging record companies to abandon DRM was so very well received.
This video essay was recorded in Tehran last year, as Mr. Panahi, one of the leading Iranian filmmakers of the past decade, was under a legal assault from his government that included the confiscation of his passport, the threat of a long prison sentence and an even longer ban on making movies.
"A decade on," wrote Mojo, "DJ Shadow's affirmatory essay on record collecting as a creative endeavour has lost none of its grandeur".
Or students might interview their subjects and write "as told to" personal essays or record their interviews on audio or video.
The album remains an entry point for many people dipping their toes into jazz and with the help of numerous handily placed sound clips from the album and other jazz recordings, Kaplan's essay puts the record in context and explains why it is so important – slate.com/id/ 2225336.
"It was a commercial demand that had to be fulfilled, ideally without compromising the mono version that everyone working on the recording really cared about," writer and musician Damon Krukowski wrote in a fascinating essay on mono recording published recently by Pitchfork.
