you wanna know what a producer is?
there's one for ya.
i love quincy jones, i love jimmy jam & terry lewis, i love teddy riley and so on and so forth, but yo.
arif mardin is the shit. ptblnk.
from aretha franklin to sonny stitt to norah jones to culture club?
all those grammies? all those records sold? all that good music?
and yo, reading him talk about his craft has truly been enriching. although he was from a time when analog was the only way, and had every right to be a dinosaur about the progression of technology, he embraced change. protools til the day he died.
the man knew how to make good records in EVERY TIME PERIOD; he understood music.
rip (albeit very late) to one of the greatest music men of our time.
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