Who I Am
I am a GRAMMY-nominated mastering and restoration engineer, audio preservationist, and studio owner.
I have remastered, restored and revived historic recordings from the archives of Louis & Bebe Barron, Woody Guthrie, Erroll Garner, Barbara Dane, and the Arhoolie Foundation. I have cleaned, digitized and restored rare vinyl and cassette recordings for Awesome Tapes from Africa, Smithsonian Folkways, RVNG Intl, and Numero Group. And I have mastered new records for Kurt Vile, Joana Serrat, Pachyman, Hailu Mergia, Lucky Break, and more.
I serve on the Board of Trustees for the Recording Academy, as a member of the AES Diversity and Inclusion Committee and on the technical committee of the Association For Recorded Sound Collections.
My work on Erroll Garner’s iconic live performance The Complete Concert By the Sea (Sony/Legacy) was nominated for Best Historical Album GRAMMY, 2015. My restoration of Ata Kak's Obaa Sima was FACT Magazine's Reissue of the Year, 2015, and My remaster of Mickey Newbury’s seminal albums for the box set An American Trilogy (Drag City/Cargo UK) was Mojo Magazine’s Reissue of the Year, 2011.
In my previous career as a radio producer and announcer, I interviewed jazz drummer Max Roach and the organ player at Fenway Park for WGBH and spun records and CDs on the airwaves of WGBH, WFMU, WZBC and WESU.
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