I’d like to take you into the Inner Sanctum of the making of music.  After months, or  sometimes years of work, musicians must finalize their album, but there is one last chance to tweak that sound.  Here they are at work during the final stages of  their recording projects at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood.  [...]

Hark! Here are my photos of two talented engineer/producers: Mike Shipley (Maroon 5, Alison Krauss, Def Leppard)

and Jacquire King (Norah Jones, Kings of Leon, Tom Waits).

I photographed these gents in the studio to accompany interviews by Marsha Vdovin on behalf of Universal Audio, a fine company whose roots go back to the groundbreaking work [...]

In this new installment from the Mr. Bonzai vaults, we step back in time to 1991 for a comprehensive interview with Graham Nash. He is an artist who has been true to his words throughout his career, and it is certainly intriguing to read these words from the perspective of the two decades that have [...]

Here is another interview from my vaults, previously published in 1989 in Mix magazine and in Japan’s Sound & Recording. Clocking in at 4000 words, much of this interview has never been seen. This year Herbie celebrates his 70th Birthday, and is still going strong.
Herbie Hancock
Cool Fusion
by Mr. Bonzai
©1989, all rights reserved
no reproduction without written [...]

In one of the many “picture” galleries at Vienna’s Art History Museum, there is a world famous painting by Johannes Vermeer van Delft, entitled “The Artist’s Studio” (1665/66). During our visit, a gentleman had set up his easel and was making a paintstaking copy of this painting, which let’s the viewer look over Vermeer’s shoulder [...]