For decades, renowned recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder captured one classic jazz album after another in his Englewood Cliffs, NJ studio. Perhaps because he did so many, he was extremely efficient. He was able to get an album on tape in a single day, sometimes in as little as three hours. Other recording artists have been known to take a bit longer. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol Records, 1973), for example, required about eight months of recording and production.

Colorado pianist/composer Bob Schlesinger took the latter approach with his newly released Falling From Earth (Bob Schlesinger, 2025). Work on the project began in 2018. Astute readers will note that there was the little matter of COVID-19 in the interim. But besides that, Schlesinger and producer John March spent considerable time reworking the original recordings, much like Teo Macero's and Miles Davis's post-recording work on Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970).

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