Daily News | Joe Tarsia, the Sigma Sound Studios founder who recorded the Sound of Philadelphia, has died
Joe Tarsia, 88, the innovative Philadelphia recording engineer who founded Sigma Sound Studios and shaped the sophisticated R&B and funk music that became known around the world as the Sound of Philadelphia, has died.
In its 1970s heyday, Sigma Sound was the base of operations for homegrown heroes on Gamble and Huff’s Philadelphia International label such as Billy Paul and the Intruders, as well as silky soul acts produced by Bell like The Stylistics and Delfonics, and the disco sensations The Trammps. The music made at Sigma turned Philadelphia into a capital city of soul music, attracting acts such as David Bowie, who came to Sigma to record his albumin 1974, as well as Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, Lou Rawls, The Jacksons, and Laura Nyro.
A fan of Big Band music and particularly Stan Kenton, he moonlighted fixing TVs, and got the itch to work in the music industry after repairing a tape recorder at AMS Studios in South Philly. “Joe was very technologically oriented,” said Jay Mark, an engineer who was one of the first employees at Sigma, and later went on to work at the New York studio. “He was a great engineer.”“It was the construction of that studio and the musicians,” Mark says, citing the rhythm section of bassist Ron Baker, guitarist Norman Harris, and drummer Earl Young, the core of the PIR backing ensemble that came to be known as MFSB.
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