Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

Independent filmmaker Mark Moormann directs the feature-length documentary Tom Dowd and the Language of Music. Shot on color and black-and-white16 mm film stock, the biography is a personal portrait of legendary recording engineer and producer Tom Dowd. The man himself is featured in a series of ...more

As an engineer and producer on numerous classic records (many of them for Atlantic Records), Tom Dowd was an important and overlooked figure in the popular music of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. He was also one who, unlike some other producers of similar artistic stature, remained pretty faceless to the public, though he was well respected within the industry. This documentary does a good job of paying his accomplishments their due, though it doesn't make too much of an argument for Dowd being a ...more