Grammy-Winning Jazz Producer And Co-founder Of Mosaic Records, Michael Cuscuna, Passes Away At 75
Michael Cuscuna, a jazz producer who won three Grammy Awards and was a co-founder of Mosaic Records, has passed away at seventy-five.
The record company Blue Note, which he produced studio sessions and reissues for, confirmed his passing on Monday. He carried out the same actions for several other labels, such as Elektra, Impulse, Atlantic, Arista, Freedom, Novus, and Muse.
Billy Vera, a Grammy-winning recording artist and lifelong friend of Cuscuna, reports that Cuscuna passed away on April 20 from cancer at his Stamford, Connecticut, home. On September 20, 1948, Cuscuna was born in Stamford. As a teenager, he learned to play the drums, saxophone, and flute. He went on to work in a variety of roles in the music industry.
He was a progressive rock deejay at WXPN in New York and later WABC-FM and WMMR in Philadelphia. He also worked as a music journalist and, because of his knowledge of music history, wrote liner notes for albums by Buddy Guy, Chris Smither, Ken Nordine, and Bonnie Raitt.
The 1970 record “Buddy & the Juniors,” which included Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and Junior Mance, and Bonnie Raitt’s 1972 album “Give It Up,” are among Cuscuna’s most successful commercial endeavors. In 1982, he founded Mosaic Records alongside Charlie Lourie, who was the new head of marketing at Blue Note and a former CBS executive.
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