Teo Macero
American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer (1925-2008) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 82
Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero 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.
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Miles Davis Teo produced Bitches Brew and Sketches of Spain
Thelonious Monk Teo produced Monk's Dream and Underground
Dave Brubeck Teo produced Time Further Out and Tonight Only!
Charles Mingus Teo produced Mingus Ah Um (1959)
Duke Ellington Teo produced Blues in Orbit (1960)
Robert Palmer Teo produced Honey and Don't Explain
Art Farmer Teo produced Baroque Sketches (1966)
Geri Allen Teo produced Twenty One (1994)
Tony Bennett Teo produced Tony Bennett's Something (1970)
Carmen McRae Teo produced Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics (1962)
Maynard Ferguson Teo produced Chameleon and M.F. Horn 3
J. J. Johnson Teo produced J.J. Inc. and A Touch of Satin
Louis Armstrong Teo produced The Real Ambassadors (1962)
Art Blakey Teo produced Killer Joe (1982)
Gerry Mulligan Teo produced What Is There to Say? (1959)
Woody Herman Teo produced Woody’s Winners (1965)
Dave Grusin Teo produced The Graduate (1968)
Charles Lloyd Teo produced Nirvana (1968)- Jimmy Giuffre Teo produced Free Fall (1962)
Ramsey Lewis Teo produced Sun Goddess (1974)
Bob Brookmeyer Teo produced Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (1964)
Mose Allison Teo produced Takes to the Hills (1961)
Wallace Roney Teo produced The Wallace Roney Quintet (1996)
Slide Hampton Teo produced Drum Suite (1962)
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Macero was known for his innovative use of editing and tape manipulation unprecedented in jazz and proving influential on subsequent fusion, experimental rock, electronica, post-punk, no wave, and acid jazz.
