TEO MACERO
Genres: Progressive Big Band, Third Stream, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Hard Bop, Classic Fusion, RnB, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Avant-Garde Jazz • United States

American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer. Born October 30, 1925 in Glens Falls, New York, USA Died February 19, 2008 in Riverhead, New York, USA Teo Macero was most famous for his role in producing a series of albums by Miles Davis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including editing that almost amounted to creating compositions after the recordings. from discogs Macero (October 30, 1925 – February 19, 2008) was by background a musician and a composer, but by training he was an audio engineer; at Columbia Records, he was an in-house composer, arranger, and producer. He worked with some of the great musicians of the 20th century, and shaped and directed essential jazz and pop albums by Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus (both of whom he signed to the label), Dave Brubeck (the Time Out album), Johnny Mathis, and Tony Bennett. He also produced an album of music by Alan Hovhaness, as read more...