Name Jim Anderson Role Recording Engineer | Genres Jazz, Acoustic music | |
Occupation(s) Record producer, sound engineer and audio mixer Associated acts Eubie Blake, Sonny Rollins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Charles Mingus Awards Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album Nominations Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year Similar Jane Ira Bloom, Patricia Barber, Fernando Trueba, Bebo Valdes, Javier Limon | ||
Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer for acoustic music in the recording, radio, television, and film industries.
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Early career
After starting his career in sound at the college radio station while attending Pittsburgh's Duquesne University, Anderson then worked for almost seven years at National Public Radio as a broadcast technician.
Awards
Anderson is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations in the recording industry, including ten Grammy-awarded recordings and 26 Grammy-nominated recordings, as well as two George Foster Peabody Awards for radio programs and two Emmy Award nominations for television programs. His surround mix of Patricia Barber's 'Modern Cool' won the Grammy for Best Surround Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, February 2013 http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=54. Jane Ira Bloom's "Sixteen Sunsets" received a Grammy nomination for Best Surround Album in 2014. In 2006, he was named a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society.
Educational and industry activities
Anderson has been a frequent lecturer and master-class guest faculty member at leading international institutes, including the Berklee School of Music; McGill University; Banff Centre of the Arts; Berlin University of the Arts; University of Luleå (Sweden); the New School; Penn State University; University of Massachusetts/Lowell and others. Jim has chaired conventions for the Audio Engineering Society (AES) in New York, received the AES Fellowship Award, and is a Past-President of the AES. Still active in recording, Jim is also a Professor at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and the Institute's former chair.