The Team
A world-class team created
the new audio master recordings of the album during the live concert:
Steve
Epstein: producer for Sony Masterworks, has 11 Grammy awards and 27 Grammy
nominations for his classical and jazz recordings. These include five Classical
Producer of the Year Grammy awards.
Richard
King: recording engineer and founder of RK Recording. He has long been
associated with Sony Music Studios in New York. King has been the engineer with
Yo-Yo Ma, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and many
revered classical pianists, such as Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, Murray Perahia,
and Andre Previn. He has won seven Grammy Awards, including two for Best
Engineered Classical Album, and one Latin Grammy Award.
Gus
Skinas: one of the world's foremost digital experts, coordinated our make-shift
control room in the green room of the Shrine, along with Steve and Richard. (You
can't imagine how much computer equipment and wiring were in this one backstage
room.) Gus was the engineer behind the high-resolution surround-sound masters
for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, as well as Elton John, the
Rolling Stones, Diana Krall, and John Hiatt.
Marc
Wienert: piano voicer, brought his specialized skills in precisely adjusting
piano acoustic behavior. His task for this new recording is unique; coordinating
one piano’s timbre to pianos from more than 50 years earlier, to invoke a
gorgeous sound – yet one Tatum would appreciate.
Yamaha
Artist Services: supplied a nine-foot Disklavier Pro, as did Zenph®.
These are superb concert grands outfitted with uniquely-engineered computer
hardware. Click here for our overview of the
differences between the typical MIDI you may be familiar with and a high-resolution
Disklavier Pro. Mark Hullibarger from the Yamaha Piano Division headquarters
devoted a week to seeing the two Pros through the concert and recordings.
Our hosts for the live show
were both crazy about Art Tatum:
Doug McIntyre, host of KABC radio's McIntyre
in the Morning
Gordon Goodwin, leader of Gordon
Goodwin's Big Phat Band
