My colleague Sasha Frere-Jones's inspiring list of perfect recordings threw down an implicit gauntlet: he expressly excluded jazz.
The company's earliest releases were fairly pedestrian until Pace signed Ethel Waters, whose recordings of "Down Home Blues" and "Oh Daddy" were a sensation.
Mr. Giordano often made arrangements from his transcriptions from old recordings, right down to the solos, with all their subtle inflections and details.
As she started studying Monroe's recordings, tracking down movie soundtrack albums and compilations to prepare for the show, Ms. Kilgore soon realized that there wasn't a large collection of material, fewer than three dozen songs in all.
There's a sense of spiritual wisdom, of vernacular intimacy, in the mid-twentieth-century recordings handed down to us by musicians who may have known Brahms personally (he died in 1897), or knew his friends and disciples, those who were present at premières or early performances of his works.
Yet little more than a decade after her death from diabetes and other complications of obesity in 1951, the critic Leonard Feather, reviewing a reissue of her recordings in Down Beat, thought it necessary to begin with a capsule biography, for fear "the average jazz fan of 1962" might have "only a vague idea of who she was".
George Martin, who had produced most of the Beatles' 1960s recordings, turned down an invitation to produce "Free as a Bird" due to hearing problems (though he subsequently managed to produce and direct the Anthology series).
For the analysis of temporal parameters, we calculated spectrograms with a FFT-length of 256, which yielded a temporal resolution 5.8 ms. For the spectral analysis, the recordings were down sampled to 16 kHz, high-pass filtered (fco = 0.4 kHz, Hamming window, 1024 coefficients), and measures were taken from spectrograms with a FFT of 1024, which yielded a spectral resolution of 16 Hz.
Recordings were down-sampled to 22.05 kHz, high pass filtered (0.8 kHz, Butterworth) and amplitude normalized to 75%%.
Raw EEG recordings were down-sampled to 256 Hz, re-referenced to the average of all electrodes, and digitally filtered using Butterworth band-pass filters (0.1 30 Hz, 24 dB/oct).
