Teo Macero produced Miles Davis' most outrageous albums, including Bitches Brew, In A Silent Way and Kind of Blue. On Tuesday he died at the age of 82. Macero was one of the most influential people in jazz history. He co-founded Charles Mingus' Jazz Composers Workshop, recorded several albums with Mingus and he signed Mingus, Monk and Byrd to Columbia Records while he was a producer at the l...
I think that the effects that we created in those days were much more real. Everything today, with electronics is synthetic. You turn a button here, you get it a half step higher, turn a button there you get it half a step lower, or you stretch it out. But they’re not doing it correctly. [...]
