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Enoch Light & Command All-Stars - Persuasive Percussion [Compilation]

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Enoch Light & Command All-Stars
Album Title
Persuasive Percussion [Compilation]
Release Date
1995 
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Review by Lindsay Planer
To modern ears, Enoch Light is known as one of the forbears of the art deco "space-age bachelor pad" scene of the late '50s and early '60s. This is due to Light's technical collaborations with Terry Snyder's Command All-stars. Although once a big-band leader and musical arranger in the 1930s and 1940s, Light started Command Records, one of the first audiophile-oriented labels. His primary innovations involved extreme stereo mixing as well as recording onto 35 millimeter film, as opposed to the traditional magnetic-based tape. Read More
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