re: is using Pre-Recorded loops Cheating

["Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Travis asked:

And it's been a while since I read the "Kind of Blue" book, but my 
recollection is that they didn't use tape loops on "In A Silent Way", but 
did 
edits on the master tape, including repeating one three-minute section at 
the 
beginning of IASW.  Were there tape loops in the studio while the 
musicians 
were playing?


If memory serves, I actually read about the tape looping in the wonderful 
and 
extensive liner notes to the latest remastered version of 
'Bitches Brew'

And I don't really know whether they did this after the fact or if the 
musicians performed to it.

The percussion is so soloistic and sparse on these records that I would 
hazard to guess that they were listening to the foundational loops 
to perform them (this is coming from my own experience as a studio 
percussionist for the last thirty years but certainly not a definitive 
answer)

I also meant to type , in that original post that his usage of percussion  
tape loops were the first of their kind in Jazz.  They were most certainly 
not the first use of tape loops in music from my knolwedge.

One thing for certain, however,  compositionally,  'Bitches Brew' used 
some looping conciousness..........that's a historical fact.

Rick Walker
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