From the late 1970s until shortly before his death, Mr. Pickow ran a small record label, Greenhays Recordings, which produced several of Ms. Ritchie's albums, including "Mountain Born," "High Hills and Mountains" and "The Most Dulcimer".
Possibly the most perfect small group recordings are the four sides recorded in Paris in 1939 by three Ellingtonians Stewart, Bigard, and Billy Taylor (bass)—and the great Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt.
It shows a significant difference between the small room recordings (Room1) which are less reverberant (T 60=0.25), and the medium and large room recordings (Room2 and Room3, respectively) which have higher reverberation times (T 60=0.5 and T 60=0.7, respectively).
What remains are mostly obscure older songs, bootlegs, small indie recordings and world music.
For the small array recordings (light blue in C ), the target was displaced outward to 0.4 m from the array to maintain high spatial resolution at short ranges.
So she doesn't take the risk any more – just makes small-scale domestic recordings, such as the new EP of soundtrack songs composed for Carol Morley's new film The Falling.
We could as well have included the "Kansas City" small-group recordings from 1938 and 1944.
A year later, RCA Victor gave Mr. Hampton free rein in the studio, and he proceeded to make some of the finest small-group recordings of the swing era.
In 1954, he made, at his own expense, a series of small-group recordings he considered his finest work, then quit for good.
Wilson also began leading a series of small-group recordings (1935 42) produced by John Hammond, including classic series with Billie Holiday and with Mildred Bailey.
