Bosco Mann

Gabriel Roth is an American record producer, songwriter, musician (bass, drums, guitar, piano), bandleader, label owner, arranger and sound engineer. As a musician and producer, he also used the pseudonym Bosco Mann. Roth won two Grammy Awards as a sound engineer.

Biography

Roth grew up in Riverside ( California). His parents were both lawyers. He studied at New York University.

Shortly before graduating Roth founded in 1996 with Philippe Lehman the record label Desco Records, which the revival of soul and funk devoted himself. Among the artists included in Desco, for example, Sugarman Three The saxophonist Neal Sugarman, the Daktaris, precursor of Antibalas, the Mighty Imperials, Sharon Jones, Lee Fields, and Naomi Shelton. Descós house band was the Soul Providers, their band leader and bassist Roth.

As Desco 2000 was broken by internal disagreements, Roth took, among others, a job with Sony Records in order to pay his debts. In 2001 he went back independently. With Neal Sugarman he founded Daptone Records. The first releases of the new label was the debut album by Sharon Jones & the Dap - Kings, recorded in Barcelona in 2001, and the third album by the Sugarman Three.

They rented a house in Bushwick, one of the poorest neighborhoods of Brooklyn, which they renovated themselves with their musicians. In their analog studio has also made recordings in the soul style of the 1960s and early 1970s. Daptones house band, the Dap - Kings, was developed from the Soul Providers, and Roth was still leader of the band, bassist and main composer.

Due to the increasing success of Sharon Jones the music world became aware of the Dap - Kings. Kanye West sampelte Pick It Up, Lay It In the Cut by Sharon Jones & the Dap - Kings for the song Brand New rapper Rhymefest. The Dap - Kings were involved in the soundtrack of the film American Gangster (2007). Mark Ronson And they committed to the recordings of the album Back to Black by Amy Winehouse, which they then also occurred in the United States. For this cooperation Roth won a Grammy as a sound engineer and a platinum record.

His second Grammy winning Roth for The Road from Memphis Booker T. Jones (2011), again as a sound engineer.