In 1966, producer Sonny Lester, engineer Phil Ramone and arranger-composer Manny Albam launched Solid State Records as the jazz division of United Artists. The label specialized in sophisticated fidelity to maximize an emerging generation of component stereo systems. The days of bulky console phonographs were ending and a new era of speakers, integrated…
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