By Mike Barnes: 04/23/2024
Michael Cuscuna, the three-time Grammy winner, Nosaic Records co-founder, historian and archivist who pruduced hundreds of jazz reissues and studio sessions during his career, has died. He was 75.
Cuscuna died Saturday of cancer at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, grammy-winning recording artist Billy Vera, a longtime friend, announced.
Cuscuna produced the 1970 album Buddy & the Juniors, featuring Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Junior Mance, for Vanguard Records, and 1972's Give It Up, Bonnie Raitt's lone gold album during her time at Warner Bros.
He produced reissues and studio sessions for lmpulse, Atlantic, Arista, Muse, Elektra, Freedom, Novus and virtually the entire Blue Note catalog.
Nominated nine times in all, Cuscuna received his Grammys in 1983, 1999 and 2002, respectively, for producing box sets of music from Nat King Cole, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.
