Elliot Mazer
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Elliot Mazer is a producer, executive, technologist, and project leader. Elliot produced multi-platinum albums for artists including Neil Young
, Janis Joplin
, and Linda Ronstadt
. He was the recording engineer of the live Last Waltz Concert. Meanwhile he has also built, designed, owned and operated audio recording facilities in Nashville and in California. Elliot has also produced DVD-Audio
and SA-CD projects with sound recordings by: Neil Young
, Janis Joplin
, Frank Sinatra
, assisted with The Who
's Tommy DVD-A and SACD mixes, Pink
, Switchfoot
, and Santana
. He has worked on Film and Television projects for NBC
and various independent studios.
From 1989 to 2005 Elliot served as Senior Vice President of New Business Development for Radio Computing Services
, Inc (RCS) in White Plains, New York. Elliot was responsible for the development, marketing, manufacturing, and client support of various broadcast and information technologies. He developed strategies to help the company adapt its products to new technologies and markets including the Record Labels, the Internet, Broadcasting and Consumer Electronics. During his post at RCS Elliot successfully negotiated contracts with Five Major Record Labels for an interactive Internet music service and developed the market for secure digital delivery of sound recordings to radio.
, Elevation Partners
, Gibson Guitars, Macrovision
, www.blip.fm, Genaudio Inc, SESAC
and Sezmi Corp. He currently serves as Chairman of Left Turn Music, LLC. Elliot is working with Digimarc and BayTSP
. He helped establish the standards that Warner Music Group
uses to archive their catalog, Mazer is currently working with a few major recording artists on a project that will help consumers hear the great audio we hear in the studios in their homes. He is currently a teacher in the Music Technology department at Elon University. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Artists and the Country Music Association
.
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
, Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
, and Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
. He was the recording engineer of the live Last Waltz Concert. Meanwhile he has also built, designed, owned and operated audio recording facilities in Nashville and in California. Elliot has also produced DVD-Audio
DVD-Audio
DVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio is not intended to be a video delivery format and is not the same as video DVDs containing concert films or music videos....
and SA-CD projects with sound recordings by: Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
, Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
, Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
, assisted with The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
's Tommy DVD-A and SACD mixes, Pink
Pink (singer)
Alecia Beth Moore , better known by her stage name Pink , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress....
, Switchfoot
Switchfoot
Switchfoot is an American rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley .After early successes in the Christian rock scene, Switchfoot first gained mainstream...
, and Santana
Santana (band)
Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...
. He has worked on Film and Television projects for NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
and various independent studios.
Early career
Elliot has impacted audio development through his research and inventions. From the late 1976-1984 while serving as a consultant to Stanford University’s Computer Center for Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Elliot designed the world’s first all-digital recording studio. In 1977 Elliot co-invented “D-Zap” – a device for musicians and recording personnel that detects shock hazards. In the late 1980s while serving as President of Artificial Intelligence Resources, Inc Elliot developed the AirCheck monitoring system, which he sold to RCS in 1989. This product is still in use in the U.S., Australia, and the U.K. . He produced music elements for The Ketchum Kitchen in San Francisco (a division of Ketchum Communications).From 1989 to 2005 Elliot served as Senior Vice President of New Business Development for Radio Computing Services
Radio Computing Services
Radio Computing Services, also known as RCS Inc., is a provider of scheduling and broadcast software for radio, Internet and television stations. The company was established in 1979 by Dr. Andrew Economos. On January 26, 2006, Clear Channel Communications purchased RCS as a subsidiary...
, Inc (RCS) in White Plains, New York. Elliot was responsible for the development, marketing, manufacturing, and client support of various broadcast and information technologies. He developed strategies to help the company adapt its products to new technologies and markets including the Record Labels, the Internet, Broadcasting and Consumer Electronics. During his post at RCS Elliot successfully negotiated contracts with Five Major Record Labels for an interactive Internet music service and developed the market for secure digital delivery of sound recordings to radio.
Current career
In the recent years Elliot has lent his knowledge to many different organizations as a consultant. Currently he is an advisor for Orastream and Qwigg and is teaching courses at Elon University. He has had an important role in the counseling of such organizations as Warner Music GroupWarner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
, Elevation Partners
Elevation Partners
Elevation Partners is an American private equity firm that invests in intellectual property and media and entertainment companies. The firm has $1.9 billion of assets under management....
, Gibson Guitars, Macrovision
Macrovision
Rovi Corporation is a globally operating, US-based company that provides guidance technology, entertainment data, copy protection, industry standard networking and media management technology for digital entertainment devices and services...
, www.blip.fm, Genaudio Inc, SESAC
SESAC
SESAC, originally the Society of European Stage Authors & Composers, is the smallest of the three performance rights organizations in the United States. SESAC was founded in 1930, making it the second-oldest performing rights organization in the U.S. SESAC is also the fastest-growing PRO in the...
and Sezmi Corp. He currently serves as Chairman of Left Turn Music, LLC. Elliot is working with Digimarc and BayTSP
BayTSP
Irdeto Intelligence is a copyright enforcement company based in Los Gatos, California. Irdeto Intelligence was formed by CEO Mark M. Ishikawa and offers defensive services to owners of intellectual property concerned about potential unauthorized distribution through the Internet...
. He helped establish the standards that Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
uses to archive their catalog, Mazer is currently working with a few major recording artists on a project that will help consumers hear the great audio we hear in the studios in their homes. He is currently a teacher in the Music Technology department at Elon University. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Artists and the Country Music Association
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...
.
Discography
| Artist | Title | Label | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loni Rose | A Beautiful Mess | GMR | 2009 |
| The Whybirds | In Progress | Left Turn | 2009 |
| Bo Allen | Scarecrow | Left Turn | 2009 |
| Neil Young | Archives Volume 1 | Reprise | 2009 |
| Moonalice | Tell Me It’s Okay | A Minor | 2009 |
| Soulfege | Soulfege | Left Turn | 2008 |
| Chelsea On The Rocks | Feature Film Mix | 2008 | |
| Scott McCurry | Left Turn | 2007 | |
| Pegi Young (with Neil Young) | Pegi Young | Warner Bros/Vapor | 2005 |
| Toshi Reagon (produced by Craig Street) | Have You Heard (remix) | Righteous Babe | 2005 |
| Switchfoot | The Beautiful Letdown (remix-Dual Disk) | Columbia | 2004 |
| Frank Sinatra | and Jobim (remix-Dual Disk) | Reprise | 2004 |
| Frank Sinatra | September Of My Years (remix-Dual Disk) | Reprise | 2004 |
| Santana | Supernatural (remix-DVD-A) | Arista | 2003 |
| Santana | Shaman (remix-DVD-A) | Arista | 2003 |
| The Who | Tommy (remix consult-SACD & DVD-A) | Geffen | 2003 |
| The Rat Pack (Sinatra, Martin, Davis) | Live & Swingin’ (remix-DVD-A) | Reprise | 2003 |
| Frank Sinatra | At The Sands (remix-DVD-A) | Reprise | 2003 |
| Neil Young | Harvest (remix-DVD-A) | Warner Brothers | 2002 |
| Janis Joplin | Cheap Thrills (remix-SACD) | Columbia | 2002 |
| The Byrds | Live At The Fillmore West | Sony | 2000 |
| Gordon Lightfoot | Song Book (box) | Warner Bros. | 1999 |
| Janis Joplin | Boxed Set | Sony | 1994 |
| Neil Young | Lucky 13 | Geffen | 1992 |
| Leonardo Music Journal | CD #1 | Leonardo | 1991 |
| The Dream Syndicate | Ghost Stories | Enigma | 1988 |
| Jennifer Warnes/Rob Wasserman | Duets | MCA | 1988 |
| William Ackerman | Sampler '88 | Windham Hill | 1988 |
| Dead Kennedys | Give Me Convenience | Alt. Tent. | 1987 |
| William Ackerman | Conferring With The Moon | Widnham Hill | 1987 |
| Michael Hedges | Santabears First XMAS | Windham Hill | 1986 |
| Phil Aaberg, M. Hedges | The Shape of the Land | Windham Hill | 1986 |
| Scott Cossu | Reunion | Windham Hill | 1985 |
| Malcom Dalglish | Jogging The Memory | Windham Hill | 1985 |
| Neil Young (Home Video) | Solo Trans | Pioneer | 1985 |
| Michael Hedges | Watching My Life Go By | Windham Hill | 1985 |
| Uptones | Uptones | 415 | 1984 |
| Willie Nelson/Neil Young | Real Cowboys | Columbia | 1984 |
| Neil Young | Old Ways | Geffen | 1984 |
| Neil Young | Everybody's Rockin' | Geffen | 1983 |
| Mazer, Rush, etc | Digital Domain | Elektra | 1983 |
| Tammy Comstock | Reason To Believe | US/CBS | 1982 |
| Red Steagall | Can't Hold A Workin' Man Down | US/CBS | 1982 |
| Janis Joplin | Farewell Song | Columbia | 1981 |
| Tubes | Sports Fans | Capitol | 1980 |
| Neil Young | Hawks & Doves | Reprise | 1980 |
| Jo Allen & The Shapes | Shimmy Shimmy | 415 | 1980 |
| Dūrocs | Dūrocs | Capitol | 1979 |
| Y & T | Alcohol | London | 1978 |
| Valdy | Hot Rocks | A&M | 1978 |
| Neil Young | Decade | Reprise | 1978 |
| Neil Young | American Stars & Bars | Reprise | 1977 |
| Juice Newton | Come To Me | Capitol | 1977 |
| The Band | The Last Waltz | Warner Bros. | 1977 |
| Dingoes | Five Times The Sun | A & M | 1977 |
| Barclay James Harvest | Time Honored Ghosts | Polydor | 1976 |
| Frankie Miller | The Rock | Chrysalis | 1976 |
| Garfield | Strange Streets | Mercury | 1976 |
| David Soul | David Soul | Priv. Stock | 1976 |
| Blue | Life In The Navy | RSO | 1975 |
| Andy Fairweather-Lowe | Spider Jiving | A & M | 1975 |
| Rab Noakes | Never Too Late | Warner Bros. | 1975 |
| Mike D'Abo | Broken Rainbows | A & M | 1974 |
| Leonard Bernstein | Concert for Peace | Columbia | 1974 |
| Neil Young | Tonight's The Night | Reprise | 1974 |
| Neil Young | Time Fades Away | Reprise | 1973 |
| Janis Joplin | Joplin In Concert | Columbia | 1973 |
| Rab Noakes | Red Pump Special | Warner Bros. | 1973 |
| Jack Nitzsche | St. Giles Cripplegate | Warner Bros. | 1972 |
| Jake Holmes | How Much Time | Columbia | 1972 |
| Neil Young | Journey Through The Past | Reprise | 1972 |
| It's A Beautiful Day | @ Carnegie Hall | Columbia | 1972 |
| Neil Young | Harvest | Reprise | 1971 |
| Tommy Live Charity Event | LSO, Solo Artists | Rainbow Theatre | 1971 |
| So Close | Polydor | 1970 | |
| Area Code 615 | Trip in the Country | Polydor | 1970 |
| Nick Gravenites | My Labors | Columbia | 1969 |
| Michael Bloomfield | Life at Fillmore West | Columbia | 1969 |
| Bob Dylan | Isle of Wight | Columbia | 1969 |
| Area Code 615 | Area Code 615 | Polydor | 1969 |
| Jake Holmes | How Are You? | Polydor | 1969 |
| Gordon Lightfoot | Sunday Concert | U. A. | 1969 |
| Linda Ronstadt | Silk Purse | Capitol | 1969 |
| Janis Joplin | Cheap Thrills | Columbia | 1968 |
| Richie Havens | 1984 | Verve | 1968 |
| Ian & Sylvia | Full Circle | MGM | 1968 |
| Paupers | Ellis Island | Verve | 1968 |
| Gordon Lightfoot | Back Here On Earth | U.A. | 1968 |
| Jerry Jeff Walker | Five Years Gone | Atlantic | 1968 |
| Pozo Seco Singers | Shades of Time | Columbia | 1968 |
| James Cotton | Cotton In Your Ears | Verve | 1968 |
| Jake Holmes | Letter to Katherine | Capitol | 1967 |
| Len Chandler | Lovin' People | Columbia | 1967 |
| "ABC Wide World of Sports" | Music Supervisor | 1966 | |
| "Death of a Salesman" | Music Supervisor | 1966 | |
| "Shop on Main Street" | Music Supervisor | 1966 | |
| "Juliet of the Spirits" | Music Supervisor | 1966 | |
| El Trio Los Panchos | Sing Hank Williams | Columbia | 1964 |
| El Trio Los Panchos | Girl | Columbia | 1964 |
| Clark Terry | More | Cameo | 1963 |
| Teddy Wilson | Teddy Wilson | Cameo | 1963 |
| Rufus Thomas | Five On Eight | Cameo | 1963 |
| Maynard Ferguson | Come Blow Your Horn | Cameo | 1963 |
| Clark Terry | Tread Y Lightly | Cameo | 1963 |
| Chubby Checker | Hooka Tooka/Loddy Lo | Cameo | 1963 |
| Chubby Checker | With Sy Oliver | Cameo | 1963 |
| The Tymes | To Each His Own | Cameo | 1963 |
| Jack Elliott | At Main Point | Prestige | 1962 |
| Lightnin' Hopkins | At Main Point | Prestige | 1962 |
| Pony Poindexter | Limbo Rock | Prestige | 1962 |
| Dave Pike | Bossa Nova Carnival | Prestige | 1962 |