Dies Teo Macero, producer of " Kind of Blue" Feb 22, 2008

It produced one of records more notables and also the most vendido of all the history of the jazz, Kind of Blue (1959), of the trompetista Miles Davis (1926-1991). To the side of the musician, he carried through historical registers - the record Bitches Brew (1969), between them - that they had not only changed the route of the career of Davis as of the proper jazz, beyond creating fusion (mixture of sorts that combines jazz, electronic music and rock). Teo Macero, the fonográfico producing lendário of Davis, died in the tuesday, to the 82 years, victim of long disease, in Riverhead, New York, but its death alone was announced yesterday by the adoptive son, Suzie Lightbourn.

The legacy of I macerate is of basic importance for the jazz. Beyond the courage to face the orthodox ones with “electronic” records of Davis, this ingression of the trompetista in the universe pop influenced all a generation of musicians in years 1970 and 1980 (Talking Heads and U2, among others). The ousadia always was a mark of Macerates. Beyond records of Miles Davis, it produced other albums antológicos as Out Teams (1959), of the pianista Dave Brubeck, and Monk's Dream (1963), first record of the pianista Thelonious Monk for Columbia, recorder for which worked as producing of 1957 the 1975.

The innovative talent of I also macerate attracted musicians it are of the jazzístico circle, interested in learning mixagem of sound at a daily pay-digital time and engatinhando in the stereo sound. Taught it them to use the resources of the electronics, transmitted to the producer (and also saxofonista) for the composer Edgard Varèse. After to have produced records for instrumentistas as Monk and Charlie Mingus and singers as Ella Fitzgerald, I macerate was attracted for the cinema. It composed tracks and it produced of the film the First Night of a Man (1967) for the composer Dave Grusin and the pair Simon and Garfunkel.
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