The Team
A world-class team created the new audio master recordings
of the album during the live concert:
Steve
Epstein: producer for Sony BMG, 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
