Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 21-22
“Is that what you wanted, Alfred?”
Quoted in: Jazz Journal International, (1983), p. 12.
Miles Davis asking Blue Note records producer Alfred Lion's approval of a recorded performance in Rudy Van Gelder's studio. Miles' gravelly-voice question was accidentally recorded, but included at the end of "One For Daddy-O" on the Cannonball Adderley recording "Somethin' Else": a famous recorded peek into the recording studio process.
1980s
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