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Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero (October 30, 1925 – February 19, 2008) [1] was an American jazz record producer, saxophonist, and composer. He was a producer at Columbia Records for twenty years. Macero produced Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and Dave Brubeck's Time Out, two of the best-selling and most influential jazz albums of all time. [2]
Teo Macero is best-known for being a busy jazz producer at Columbia from 1957 until the late '80s, most noticeably for producing Miles Davis' records. However, he has also been an occasional tenor saxophonist who has been involved in some adventurous sessions.
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.
TitelKatalognummerJahrIn Your Collection, Wantlist, Or ...DLP-6Explorations (10", Album)CL 842Teo Macero / Bob Prince*Teo Macero / Bob Prince* - What's New?MG 12059Charlie Mingus*, Wally Cirillo, Teo ...Charlie Mingus*, Wally Cirillo, Teo ...PRLP 7104Teo Macero With The Prestige Jazz ...Teo Macero With The Prestige Jazz Quartet ...Teo Macero, a saxophonist, composer, and record producer who helped craft many of Miles Davis' late-1960s and early-1970s electric-jazz records, has passed away at the age of 82. Though he was best-known for the meticulous editing work that he did on Davis LPs such as Bitches Brew, Macero was an interesting musician himself--check out...
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Early work
Teo Macero was born and raised in Glens Falls, New York. After serving in the United States Navy, he moved to New York City in 1948 to attend the Juilliard School of Music. He studied composition, and graduated from Juilliard in 1953 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees. In 1953, Macero co-founded Charles Mingus' Jazz Composers Workshop, and became a major contributor to the New York City avant-garde jazz scene. As a composer, Macero wrote in an atonal style, as well as in third stream, a syn...
Composer and arranger
Macero's first projects for Columbia included one side of What's New?, an album of original music in the emerging Third Stream genre that was shared with Bob Prince as well as arrangements for the first Johnny Mathisalbum. Macero continued to compose and arrange for a variety of artists during his time as a producer at Columbia, contributing tracks to (and still producing) several albums including Monk's Monk's Blues, and Something New, Something Blue, a collection of blues compositions and a...
Columbia Records producer
Macero found greater fame as a producer for Columbia Records. He joined in 1957, and produced hundreds of records while at the label, working with dozens of artists including Mingus, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Mathis, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Tony Bennett, Charlie Byrd, Maynard Ferguson and Stan Getz. He was also responsible for signing Mingus, Monk, and Byrd to Columbia. Additionally, Macero produced over 100 albums of classical orchestral music for Columbia,...
On the evening of February 19, 2008, Macero died in his sleep, having long suffered from pneumonia. He was 82.
BMI Student Composer Award in 1953Two Guggenheim Fellowships for composition in 1957 and 1958National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1974Over 20 Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Gold, Platinum, and Multi-platinum certificationsAs leader
1. 1953 Explorations(Debut) 2. 1956 What's New? (Columbia) 3. 1957 Teo with the Prestige Jazz Quartet (Prestige) 4. 1959 Swinging Guys and Dolls(Musical Heritage Society) 5. 1959 Something New, Something Blue(Columbia, 1959) 6. 1965 Time + 7(Finnadar) 7. 1983 Impressions of Charles Mingus(Palo Alto) 8. 1984 Acoustical Suspension(Doctor Jazz) 9. 1985 Fusion(Europa) 10. 1987 Teo Macero's Jamboree(Musical Heritage Society) 11. 1989 Sal Salvador & Crystal Image(Stash) 12. 1999 Dark Star(Teo Macer...
As sideman
With Charles Mingus 1. The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus(Bethlehem, 1954) 2. Jazz Composers Workshop (Savoy, 1954–55)
Tingen, Paul: Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991, Billboard Books, 2001.Marmorstein, Gary: The Label: The Story of Columbia Records, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007.Feather, L and Gitler, I (eds): The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Oxford University Press, 2007.Weidenbaum, Marc: "Higher Sources", Pulse!, August 2001.27. Feb. 2008 · The truly legendary producer, arranger, and composer Teo Macero passed away February 19, at the age of 82. There have been dozens of obits; our own bio outlines his amazing contribution to music both popular and marginal for the latter half of the 20th century.
Staff producer at Columbia Records who first worked with Miles in 1959, and grew to a role of primary importance in editing and mixing Miles' recordings into final albums even as the recording sessions became looser and more jam-oriented and spontaneous through the 1960s and into the 1970s.
