Jerry Fielding

Jerry Fielding: 'Fielding's Formula'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 6, 2015

When the 12-inch LP was relatively new in the mid-1950s, jazz labels needed as much content as they could get their hands on to fill production quotas. So they were willing to take chances with artists who had bright ideas and proven track records. After all, even though magnetic tape had dramatically reduced recording overhead, time was still money. An especially fruitful year for these hip small-group and big band recordings was 1956, when many labels dropped the 10-inch album ...
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