Fantasy Studios to close

[duaneiac]

Another piece of jazz history is set to disappear as Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, where many jazz greats including Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Woody Herman, and Bobby Hutcherson recorded, announced they will be closing their doors forever come Sept. 15th.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-s-famed-Fantasy-Studios-set-to-close-13117196.php

[Ken Dryden]

I'ts hard to imagine how many recordings i own that were recorded there. 

[mikeweil]

..... not to mention the many reissues mastered there!

[Chuck Nessa]

Not sure how much they have done lately. 

This is the most recent recording I own.

[CJ Shearn]

Oh man.  Santana's current keyboardist recorded his newest disc there and I had gotten a promo of a vocalist who had recently cut an album there as well.  With Avatar closing later to be bought and used by Berklee, times are indeed changing.  Couldn't there be a historical preservation thing like what's being done at RVG's to save Fantasy studios?

[JSngry]

Over the years, the studios hosted artists as varied as Tony Bennett, Aerosmith,

Counting Crows, U2, Joan Baez and Sonny Rollins.

Interesting pop-culture awareness snapshot there.

[GA Russell]

40 minutes ago, JSngry said:

 

 

Interesting pop-culture awareness snapshot there.

Apropos, today is Tony Bennett's birthday (b. 1926).  It was also the birthday of my favorite wrestler, the late Haystacks Calhoun.