Tommy LiPuma
Tommy LiPuma ( born July 5, 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American music producer in the field of jazz and popular music.
LiPuma began first as a professional musician (saxophone) and in 1960 as a staff in music promotion in MS Distributors to work in Cleveland. A year later he moved to Liberty Records, where he worked in the same capacity in Los Angeles and New York. He also worked as a producer for, among other things Randy Newman. In 1965 he joined the newly founded A & M Records, where he of the Sandpipers had his first hit with " Guantanamera ", which was also awarded a gold disc.
In 1969 he founded with Bob Krasnow Blue Thumb Records (now also at the Verve Music Group in the category of world music and blues), where he produced, among others, Ike and Tina Turner, the Pointer Sisters, the Crusaders and Barbra Streisand, whose title "The Way We Were "was awarded from the film 's 1973 platinum.
From 1974, he worked at Warner Brothers, where Al Jarreau, George Benson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Claus Ogerman were among the artists he produced. In 1978 he returned briefly to A & M as Head of the newly founded Horizon labels back and then became vice president at Warner Brothers in jazz and "progressive music". There he worked as a producer and talent scout. He produced, among others, Randy Crawford, Miles Davis ( " Tutu " 1986), Patti Austin, Bob James, George Benson, Earl Klugh, David Sanborn, Joe Sample, Rickie Lee Jones and the Yellowjackets. That he produced album " Breezin ' " by George Benson in 1976 - as well as the single " This Masquerade " - a Grammy Award.
1990 was LiPuma vice president Elektra Records, where he again collaborated with Krasnow and Natalie Cole, Anita Baker, David Sanborn and Wayne Shorter produced. In 1994 he was chairman of GRP Recording Company (which changed its name after the merger with Verve Records in 1999 as The Verve Music Group ), where he sub - label Blue Thumb, and Impulse Records reactivated.
Tommy LiPuma was nominated over 30 times for a Grammy and won him three times, including in 1991 for " Unforgettable" by Natalie Cole ( in which she sings a duet with recordings of her father Nat King Cole ), in which he co - producer. 29 of which he produced albums reached gold or platinum status. At Verve, he produced, among others, Diana Krall, whose album "When I Look In Your Eyes " (2000) was awarded two Grammy Awards and a platinum record. In addition, Paul McCartney LiPuma album "Kisses On The Bottom" produced (2012 ).
As of 2004, he handed over the daily business at Verve to Ron Goldstein and devoted himself as " Chairman Emeritus " of the Verve Music Group, to work more in the studio.