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Juilliard Graduate, Sax player, two-time Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and composer--Teo Macero was all of the above and famous for none of it. But in the early 1960s, after taking a job at Columbia Records, he became one of the era's most celebrated producers. Best known for his long, occasionally combative collaboration with Miles Davis--whom Macero likened to a spouse--Macero had unusual latitude to cut and shape Davis' improvisations, often co-creating pieces. Among the albums he oversaw: Davis' Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way and the monumentally influential Kind of Blue, as well as such...
...ability to articulate her thoughts and feelings in these interviews. Although the affair was a mistake, I have great empathy for her and her family. She has paid her price, and now we must look at ourselves. It's time we just left her alone. PAUL M. NEWITT El Macero, Calif...
...also recorded a trio album for Blue Note last year, Twenty one. On this album, Allen is heard accompanied by--and sometimes struggling with--the deafening racket of grand masters Ron Carter and Tony Williams on bass and drums, respectively. For some reason, the producer of Twenty One, Teo Macero (who produced all of the great Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk albums on Columbia) ,chose to have an incredibly bass-heavy mix, which, coupled with Williams's tooth-rattling cymbal crashes, threatens to drown out the subtleties of Allen's phrasing and unique harmonic conception. It is to Allen...
...past several years, local schools have had to contend with shrinking budgets, largely due to the passage of proposition 2 and 1/2, Macero said. This tax-cutting measure limits cities's authority to increase property taxes above 2.5 percent per year. Most municipal revenues are generated by property taxes...
...Looking back now, most cuts were taken by the schools" to fit the new budget constraints, Macero said. "Fire and police were set, one extra kid in class doesn't impinge on public safety while one fireman less affects everybody," he added...