Carnegie

Presenting Rare Gems from Richard Strauss: Reference Recordings is proud to present our first album with the Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble, conducted and produced by George Vosburgh.

Connaissez-vous les 3 différentes techniques de gestion humaine ? Les 6 façons de se faire aimer d'autrui ? Les 12 façons de convaincre les gens d'adopter vos idées ? Les 9 façons de faire changer d'avis sans irriter ni froisser votre interlocuteur ? …

In several respects, this is a very strange album, though the music isn't strange at all and is in fact quite typical vintage Jimmy Reed. First, despite what the title might lead you to believe, this is not a live recording; all 23 of the tracks were done in the studio. Not only that, they weren't even performed at New York's famed venue Carnegie Hall, although producer Calvin Carter would later claim they were; instead, everything was cut elsewhere.
According to Pete Welding's notes to the record in the year (1961) the double LP was first issued, one-half is devoted to "recreations of some of Jimmy's most celebrated and biggest-selling recordings," while "the second LP here is Jimmy's celebratory recreation of his highly successful appearance at august Carnegie Hall this past May"…