Michael Cuscuna

Michael Cuscuna ( born September 20, 1948 in Stamford, Connecticut) is an American jazz producer, particularly known for its reissue on Blue Note Records and Mosaic Records.

Cuscuna grew up in New York and played drums, saxophone and flute, but always pursued a career as a music journalist and the recording industry. In the late 1960s he had a jazz program for WXPN Radio and wrote for jazz magazines such as Down Beat. In the early 1970s he began to work as a producer for Atlantic Records, where he among other things, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Dave Brubeck produced. He then worked for example with Motown and gave plates of the Impulse label at ABC out again before 1981 to extensive revisions from the archives of Blue Note Records organized and also musicians like Tina Brooks snatched from oblivion in 1975. In 1982 he founded with his Blue Note peers Charlie Lourie Mosaic Records, which it is translated to the target to issue full sessions in a limited edition as plates boxes new. He also continued his work for the new edition programs at Blue Note and Impulse ( belonging to GRP, today Verve Music Group ) continued.

As a producer, he led several times to the polls of Down Beat. In 1999 he received a Grammy for the liner notes of the reissue of recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965 until 1968. 2012, he received the Bruce Lundvall Award at the Jazz Festival in Montreal.

• With Michel Ruppli " Blue Note label - a discography ", Greenwood Press, revised edition 2001, 936 pages, ISBN 0313318263
• With Michel Lourie, Oscar Schnider " Blue Note: Jazz Photography of Francis Wolf ," Universe Publishing 2000, ISBN 0789304937, 1995 German