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Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jerseys rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the American popular music spectrum. The book includes chapters on the beginnings of musical recording in Thomas Edisons factories in West Orange early recording and the invention of the Victrola at Victor Records Camden complex Rudy Van Gelders recording studios (for Blue Note, Prestige, and other jazz labels) in Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs Zacherley and the afterschool dance television show Read more