Full name: Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording

Author: Charles L. Granata Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781556525094 1556525095

Featuring 100 photographs of Frank Sinatra working with orchestras and arrangers, listening to playbacks, and, of course, singing, this book tells the whole story of how he created the Sinatra sound and translated the most intense personal emotions into richly worked-out songs of unrivalled expressiveness. One of the thrills of listening to Sinatra is wondering how he did it--and this book explains it all, bringing the dedicated fan and the casual music lover alike into the recording studio to witness the fascinating working methods he introduced and mastered in his quest for recorded perfection. Revealed is how, in addition to introducing and perfecting a unique vocal style, Sinatra was also his own in-studio producer--personally supervising every aspect of his recordings, from choosing the songs and arrangers to making minute adjustments in microphone placement. Similar books: Let it Blurt by Jim DeRogatis Beethoven by Lewis Lockwood Five against One by Kim Neely Zappa by Barry Miles Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad Twenty Thousand Roads by David Meyer Comfortably Numb by Mark Blake Old Gods Almost Dead by Stephen Davis Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill Dreams to Remember by Mark Ribowsky Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky by David Henderson On Some Faraway Beach by David Sheppard Passion is a Fashion by Pat Gilbert Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star by Rick Wakeman Sweet Jones by Julia Beverly Springsteen by Ryan White I'm the Man by Scott Ian My House of Memories by Merle Haggard Rolling with the Stones by Bill Wyman