Tim Reilly, author of Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary and editor of Rileyrockindex.com and
Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and author of Living With Jazz (Pantheon Books, 2004) discuss the dying art of liner notes in the music world.
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The album whose liner notes most affected me is Dave Brubeck's Take Five. Without the liner notes I never would have known that each song had a non-standard time signature. Now I sing along to Take Five by counting off 1-2-3-4-5 in time to the drum beat!
The art of writing liner notes is alive and well at Norton Records (www.nortonrecords.com), based in Brooklyn. Co-owners Billy Miller and Miriam Linna's liner notes are both highly informative and extremely entertaining.
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