You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. this. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Kot. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show.

Jim and I are going to talk about some of the biggest albums of the season, including two releases from the Jackson family.

Then it's my turn to add a track to the Desert Island Jukebox.

You are listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. What you're hearing is a little bit of Miles Davis from his electric period in the early 70s, the on the

corner record. And the reason we're playing it is to honor the producer of that

record and a whole batch of Miles Davis releases from the late 60s and early 70s

a producer by the name of Tio Massaro. Mr. Massaro died a few days ago in New York at

the age of 82 and Jim the reason we're bringing this guy up is not so much for what he did in the jazz world,

which was revolutionary. There was no other producer like him, and the influence he had was in the way

he produced those Miles Davis records. Before T. Ome Caro came along, producers essentially

would set up microphones in a room and record a jazz band live. And that would be the released

record. That would be the finished product essentially a high fidelity

recording

of jazz musicians in their natural element

what mistero did with miles davis' recordings that he would record everything

that miles davis would record with these extraordinary bands,

people like Jack Dejanette and Joe Zowenol and John McLaughlin playing together in a room in real time,

extended jam sessions going on for hours at a time sometimes sometimes and then meticulously with a razor blade edit these two inch

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