On the Record

A musician, songwriter, sound engineer, and producer, Vezi Tayyeb is one of the founders of Kensington Sound, the celebrated studio tucked down a back alley in Toronto. In this entertaining memoir of his five decades in the music business, he recalls encounters with Lenny Breau, Joni Mitchell, Gene MacLellan, the Drifters, Harry Belafonte, Jeff Healey, Cyndi Lauper, Prakash John, Murray McLauchlan, Alannah Myles, Mendelson Joe, Jimmy Webb, Jordan John, Daniel Lanois, Paul Shaffer, and Cat Stevens, among many others.