50 Years of Stereo

摘要

The year 1958 was a good year for music. LPs had been on sale for ten years and liberated recorded music from three minute limits. Photographer Art Kane persuaded the cream of New York's jazz musicians to gather in Harlem at 10am for the seminal jazz photo that appeared in Esquire magazine and has been copied and copycatted ever since. At the other end of the musical scale, the Decca Record Company let producer John Culshaw loose in Vienna on a plan to record the entire Ring Cycle of operas. The project took seven years to complete and now spans 14 CDs, which will set you back over £ 150 if you ever get time to listen to them.