Bruce Swedien is a Grammy Award-winning audio engineer and music producer. He is known for his work with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson
Quincy, Micheal and Bruce
Bruce Swedien is a five-time Grammy winner and has been nominated 13 times. He has also been awarded ten Grammy certificates, two ASCAP composer awards and has been nominated for four TEC (Technical Excellence and Creativity) awards by the Mix Foundation. In 1991, he was honored with the TEC Hall Of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award. He recorded, mixed, and assisted in producing the best-sold album in the world, Thriller by Michael Jackson. He was the primary sound engineer for Jackson’s studio recordings from 1978 to 2001.
Some of the other artists Bruce Swedien has recorded and produced are:
Herb Alpert, Patti Austin, Count Basie, Bobby Blue Band, George Benson, Art Blakey, Oscar Brown Jr., Jerry Butler, The Chi-Lites, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Gene Chandler, Don Costa, King Curtis, Dukes of Dixieland, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Betty Everett, Roberta Flack, Phil Ford & Mimi Hines, Dizzy Gillespie, Eydie Gorme, Leslie Gore, Lionel Hampton, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Harris, Woody Herman, Kyusoko Himaru, Jennifer Holliday, The Hi-Los, John Lee Hooker, Lena Horne, Donny Hathaway, David Hasselhoff, James Ingram, The Jacksons, The Brothers Johnson, Mick Jagger, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Peggy King, Stan Kenton, Ramsay Lewis, Herbie Mann, Paul McCartney, Curtis Mayfield, Sergio Mendes, Buddy Miles, Bob Newhart, Ohio Players, Oscar Peterson, Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Jimmy Reed, Diana Ross, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Bill Reinhardt, Dave Remington, Tommy Sands, Carlos Santana, Lalo Schifrin, Dinah Shore, The Smothers Brothers, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, The Four Seasons, Jack Teagarden, Frankie Valli, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Ernie Watts, John “Guitar” Watson, Joe Williams, Jackie Wilson, Edgar Winter and many more.
In The Studio With Bruce Swedien
Just got back from Bruce Swedien’s studio in March 2010, what a great time of sharing and learning for 7 days and nights. Below is a song that I mixed at Bruce’s studio called “Old School Funk”. Well, I got to spend another week in July with Bruce in Los Angeles at Ren’e Moore’s studio working on his SSL 9oooJ what a great sounding console. Below is a song I mixed on it called “Save the Last Dance”. The time was incredible there with Bruce Swedien, Al Schmitt, Ed Cherney and Ren’e Moore talking with the group about recording in the old days and hanging out. This is what Bruce says about mixing “Anyone who works in the box and thinks it sounds good should hear what they are doing compared to my Harrison desk and they will be able to tell an immediate difference.”
In the Studio with Bruce Swedien We would also like to give special recognition to three students, Kenevan McConnon, Dan Johnstone, and Robert Plotnik, for being the very first students to complete the In the Studio with Bruce Swedien Workshop twice. Congratulations!
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