Jack Lewis (producer)

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Jack Lewis (* in Los Angeles ; † in January 2011 ) was an American music producer .

Lewis, who grew up in a Jewish orphanage and lost an eye early, began his career as a record salesman at the Sunset and Vine Record Shop in Los Angeles before joining Columbia Records as an A&R at the age of 18 in New York . From the 1950s he worked as a music producer for the RCA Victor label , where he initially oversaw the Vic Records sub-label and, from the middle of the decade, the Jazz Workshop Series , in which u. a. The Jazz Workshop by George Russell and other LPs of the same title by Manny Albam , Billy Byers and Hal McKusick have been released.

In the late 1950s, Lewis worked for United Artists Records , on which records he had produced by Art Farmer ( Modern Art , 1958), Randy Weston ( Little Niles ) and Bob Brookmeyer ( The Ivory Hunters 1959, with Bill Evans ) were released. Throughout his career he has worked with musicians such as Duke Ellington , Coleman Hawkins , Shorty Rogers , Zoot Sims , Al Cohn , André Previn , Milt Jackson , João Gilberto , Nina Simone , Jackie & Roy , Herbie Hancock , Bill Holman , The Lovin 'Spoonful and the director Woody Allen . He also produced the music for films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr. Strange, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb (1964) and various jazz anthologies.

With his business partner Monte Kay (1924–1988), Lewis founded the Ascot label in the mid-1960s, which included singles for the country rock band International Submarine Band , which were unsuccessful. The two produced music by singer Nora Guthrie for Mercury Records , and for Polydor in 1970 the album Turn it Over by Tony Williams ' group Lifetime with John McLaughlin . In the early 1970s, Lewis and Kay operated the short-lived Little David Records label , which mainly featured records by comedians George Carlin , Flip Wilson and the singer Kenny Rankin , but also jazz music by John Lewis and Hank Jones .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jack Lewis at Discogs (English).
  2. ^ Saxophone journal, Volume 12, Dorn Publications, 1987.
  3. ↑ Stephanie Stein Crease: Gil Evans: Out of the Cool - His Life and Music . P. 184.
  4. ↑ See David Dachs: Anything Goes: The World of Popular Music . Bobbs-Merrill Co./HW Sams, 1964.
  5. ↑ Information at Randy Weston's website .
  6. ↑ Marc myers: Interview with Bob Brookmeyer 2009 .
  7. ^ Gordon Jack, Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective , p. 201.
  8. ↑ Texas Monthly, September 1985, p. 289.
  9. ↑ Gene Lees . Friends Along the Way: A Journey Through Jazz , p. 45.
  10. ^ Obituary by Rob Seifert Gage .
  11. ↑ See John Einarson: Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock . Cooper Square Press, 2001.
  12. ↑ Information on Byrds' album Sweetheart of the Rodeo .
  13. ^ Billboard, October 28, 1967.
  14. ↑ Note at Discogs .
  15. ^ Little David Records discography .
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH January 2011
Place of death los Angeles