81.   The sounds of rapping, booms and crashes came from some energetic recording sessions at several Bay Area houses, all abandoned and set for demolition.

82.   There is Billie Holiday, dejected by the sound of her own voice at a recording session in Manhattan.

83.   There was no pressure to slam down tracks and head back out on the road as if the tour vans were idling during the recording session.

84.   Then, last May, while walking back to his hotel after a late-night recording session in Sofia, Bulgaria, he was mugged.

85.   There were recording sessions for several interludes.

86.   What developed from the recording sessions was a slightly harder album than the first.

87.   While on the West Coast in that period, he also recorded film soundtracks and played at studio recording sessions, including several for Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday.

88.   Which makes this odd recording session anything but frivolous.

89.   Although only fathers showed up early Saturday for the once-a-week recording session, mothers have participated, too.

90.   And the trade magazine Music Row praised the book for its accurate reporting of photo shoots, recording sessions and the like.