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RIP Teo Macero

Always feel a bit weird about grief for public figures and stuff, but not sure if this guy's death will make that much of a ripple, but also think he's worth knowing about if you're into music. He died on the 19th, aged 82.

I first heard about Teo Macero through the movie Modulations, where he talks about how as early as the 60s he was hacking and splicing the tapes for jazz musicians like Miles Davis, completely blowing apart any purist notions of jazz being something that only happens in real time, and jazz records being real records of an event / performance. For someone who loves production and edits and mixing, it was pretty exciting to learn that that aspect was being totally pushed and developed at the same time that Davis was going electric and giving birth to fusion.

Wikipedia entry
The text of the Modulations interview

Here's an interview about his work on Bitches Brew. Not sure there're any particular insights here, but his impersonations of Davis are pretty classic. :)

Labels: music

Posted at 08:56