Teo Macero
Attilio Joseph " Teo " Macero ( born October 30, 1925 in Glens Falls, New York, † February 19, 2008 in Riverhead, New York) was an American composer, arranger, music producer and saxophonist.
He was best known as the producer of many recordings for the label, Columbia Records.
Curriculum vitae
1943 and 1944 made Macero training at the Navy School of Music in Washington. In 1946, he was in his home music lessons. In 1953 he completed his composition studies begun in 1948 at New York's Juilliard School as a master's degree. Between 1957 and 1977, Macero worked as a producer at Columbia Records. In the 70 years he developed there with Miles Davis production techniques that apply with their tape cuts and collages today as groundbreaking.
Music
Also under his own name, he played a few records, so 1953 Explorations, 1956 What's New and 1979 Impressions Of Charles Mingus. In the years 1954 and 1955 he worked with the Jazz Composers Workshop by Charles Mingus and can also be heard on the plates. Furthermore, he was involved in recordings by Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Michel Legrand, Wallace Roney, Shirley MacLaine, Vernon Reid, Robert Palmer and DJ Logic as a musician.
Macero composed both atonal and Third Stream compositions. 1957 and 1958 respectively, he was awarded the Guggenheim Prize for composition. 1958 premiered his symphonic composition merger of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein, 1982, she was re-recorded by the Lounge Lizards.
In 1972, he served as musical director of the concert, Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert, which was arranged by Sy Johnson.
2008 in the USA, a film documentary about the life and work of Teo Macero was published: Play That, Teo by the director Olana DiGirolamo, daughter of jazz accordionist Orlando DiGirolamo, a friend and colleague Maceros.
Producer
Teo Macero produced numerous plates; Here is a selection:
- Charles Mingus Ah -Um
- Dave Brubeck, Time Out
- Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
- Miles Davis, In a Silent Way
- Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Don Ellis Connection
- Larry Coryell, Le Sarcre du Printemps ( The Rite of Spring)
- Simon and Garfunkel, The Graduate
- The Lounge Lizards ( debut album )
- NoJazz, nojazz
In addition, he has produced plates of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Charlie Byrd, Don Ellis and Stan Getz. He was responsible for ensuring that Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and Byrd got a contract with Columbia. In 1999 he founded his own label Teorecords.
Discography (selection)
- Charles Mingus: Jazz Composers Workshop ( Savoy SV 0171, 1954-55 )
- Charles Mingus: Jazzical Moods (Period SIP 1107, 1955), also titled intrusion ( Ember CJS 832) published. She appeared as a CD under the title The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus ( Bethlehem ) and Abstractions ( Affinity AFF 750).
- 1957: Teo Macero with The Prestige Jazz Quartet ( OJC ) with Teddy Charles, Mal Waldron, Addison Farmer, Jerry Segal