Following a distinguished career that spanned nearly six decades, Joel Moss, a record producer, sound engineer, and mixer, passed away in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Seven-time Grammy-winning producer Joel Moss has died at the age of 79.
Throughout his distinguished career, the Hollywood legend worked on blockbusters like Omen IV: The Awakening and with music legends like Eagles, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Joe Cocker, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Talking Heads. For producing the cast recording of the musical In the Heights, which premiered on Broadway in 2008, about life in the streets of Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, he received a Best Musical Show Album award.
Moss passed away on Monday in Saratoga Springs, New York, his family reported today. Moss was described by the relatives as “the biggest mensch in the recording industry who created the best sounds in town,” who refused to name a cause of death.
His career began in Los Angeles when he began working on recordings for recording artists like Little Richard, Joe Cocker, and Johnny Cash at the age of 23. The Record Plant Recording Studios, a recording business that ran the Paramount Pictures scoring stage, was then led by Moss as its executive director and chief engineer.
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For Hollywood movies like Fatal Attraction, Omen IV: The Awakening, and South Pacific, Moss was able to provide scores for these projects. For Talking Heads’ iconic documentary, Stop Making Sense, Moss was the first to convert analogue recordings to 24-track digital in the 1980s.
In the 1990s, the actor founded Managra Music Company, a company specializing in jazz and theater compositions, and became associated with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Paying tribute to Moss today, production company Caffe Lena said on Facebook: “It never failed to amaze us that a man who produced records for Johnny Cash, Tony Bennett, The Talking Heads, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and hundreds of others, believed so much in the community of Saratoga Springs and the value of Caffe Lena, that he spent his evenings running our livestream cameras and recording our shows.
He felt a strong commitment to recording every performance at Caffe Lena because he thought the stage on Caffe Lena is a treasure and what takes place there is significant. When you’ll find lightning in a bottle, you never know. He told everyone when he noticed that special spark in an artist, whether it was their first performance or an underappreciated treasure that had spent decades on the road. We are forever richer because of our time with him, and Joseph’s presence and faith have made him famous in the eyes of many.
Source: Mirror
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