Horovitz lent Skyler and Davis a 1980s-vintage sampler that came with floppy disks still holding Beastie Boys beats. "It's a time machine," Donaldson recalled with a chuckle. "They'd be trying to find a sound, and you'd randomly hear a drum break that was on a Beastie Boys song."
If you're a jazz fan, see how many of the nicknames in the poem below you can identify. And even if you're not a jazz fan, keep reading—you will still enjoy this.
Sound restorer Nick Dellow got his hands on a a shellac master test pressing of blues legend Robert Johnson. This disk had been made in 1940 from the original metal parts, which had been acquired by Columbia Records, and left forgotten in the company's storage facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
