PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Internationally recognized recording engineer and producer for acoustic music throughout the world: (symphonic and chamber music, world music, folk jazz, and pop music in studio and on location) in the recording, radio, television and film industries.
Recipient of numerous industry awards and nominations including: 10 Grammy and Latin Grammy Award winning recordings 26 Grammy and Latin Grammy Nominated recordings Grammy Winner - Best Surround Album “Modern Cool” (2013) Nomination-Best Engineered Recording – Latin Grammy – “Lagrimas Negras” Nomination-Best Surround Album – “Sixteen Sunsets” (2014) 2 Swing Journal Jazz Disc Awards (Japan) Broadcasting: 2 George Foster Peabody Awards for programs 2 Emmy Nominations for programs International Radio Festival of New York Gold Award Informational Film Producers of America Gold Cindy NPR programs receiving Alfred I duPont awards.
Preeminent global client base
World Class Institutions: Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Premier Music Labels: Over 1500 recording projects for 112 international labels including: Atlantic Records, Blue Note Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Music, Sony Classical, Verve Records.
Radio: National Public Radio, Public Radio International, BBC
Television: PBS Programs “Great Performances” and “In Performance at the White House”; HBO, Muppets
Professor - Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and frequent lecturer and master class guest faculty at leading international institutes of higher education, including: Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin; Berklee School of Music, Boston; McGill University, Montreal; Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; Penn State University; William Patterson University; State University of New York at Fredonia; The New School, New York City; University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta; University of Luleå, Piteå, Sweden; Peabody Conservatory; University of Massachusetts Lowell; Tokyo National University of the Arts, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland, Ithaca College, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Frequent guest lecturer for the Audio Engineering Society.
Established a highly visible and worldwide reputation in the acoustic music industry as one of the premier recording, production engineers and audio producers and a consultant in studio construction.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2003 – Present Professor, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
2004-2008 Dept. Chair Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York City
1980 – Present James Anderson Audio-Independent audio engineer/producer. Sound design and audio production for recording artists, film soundtracks and broadcasts. Consultant in studio design and construction; consulted on the recording studio for Carnegie Hall and Lorin Maazel’s private performance space and recording facility.
1974 – 1980 National Public Radio-Recording Engineer
Audio and production services for studio and location productions. Projects included hundreds of jazz, opera, symphonic, chamber and folk music concerts and production sound design and location sound for news specials and stereo feature documentaries including; “Segovia!” - thirteen part documentary on the life and music of Andres Segovia, “La Scala at the Kennedy Center” and “A Question of Place-Sound Portraits of 20th Century Humanists”, and others.
1973 – 1974 Audio Engineer and Producer WDUQ-FM Pittsburgh, PA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Audio Engineering Society (AES)
2008-2009 AES President
2006 AES Fellowship Award
2006, 2008, 2014 Board of Governors Award
2001-2006 AES Vice-President for Sections in the Eastern Region USA/Canada
1999-2000 AES Chairman New York City Professional Section
2015, 2013, 2011, 2007 and 2005 AES Convention Chair
2003 AES Convention Co-Chair; 2001 & 2003 AES Convention Facilities Chair
1994-2003 WNYC AM & FM Community Advisory Board
1994-Present Downbeat Magazine Student Recording Awards Judge
EDUCATION
1976 Audio Engineering Studies-Sender Freies Berlin, Germany
1975 Audio Engineering Studies-Eastman School of Music
1973-1974 Studies for Masters in Music Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1969-1973 Bachelor of Science Degree, Music Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2013 Distinguished Graduate Award – Butler Area Senior High School
RESEARCH/PAPERS
Case, A., Roginska, A., Anderson, J., “Spatial Variability Of Timbre For An Electric Guitar Amplifier,” part of special session:
Musical Timbre: Perception and Analysis/Synthesis, Acoustics 2012, joint meeting Acoustical Society of America, the Acoustical Society of China, the Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics, and the Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, Hong Kong. Paper presented.
Case, A., Roginska, A., Anderson, J., “Spatial Variability Of Timbre For An Electric Guitar Amplifier,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 131, Issue 4, April 2012: 3469. Paper presented and published abstract.
AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grammy Awarded Recordings
2013 Patricia Barber“Modern Cool” – Best Surround Album
2007 Gonzalo Rubalcaba“Solo” (Latin Grammy)
2006 Bebo Valdes“Bebo de Cuba (Tropical Field)
2005 Bebo Valdes“Bebo de Cuba” (Latin Grammy)
2004 Bebo Valdes“Lagrimas Negras” (Latin Grammy)
2002 Gonzalo Rubalcaba“Supernova” (Latin Grammy)
1997 Joe Henderson “Joe Henderson Big Band” (Jazz Field)
1994 Joe Henderson“So Near, So Far” (Jazz Field)
1994 Joe Henderson“So Near, So Far” (Solo Jazz Field)
1993 Branford Marsalis “Heard You Twice” (Jazz Field)
Grammy Nominated Recordings
2015 Gonzalo Rubalcaba“Caminos” – Best Latin Jazz Album
2014 Jane Ira Bloom“Sixteen Sunsets” – Best Surround Album
2008 Gonzalo Rubalcaba“Avatar”
2008 Bebo Valdez & Javier Colina“Live at the Village Vanguard”
2004 Bebo Valdes“Lagrimas Negras” 3 Latin Grammy nominations:
Record of the Year, Album of the Year & Engineer of the Year
2003 McCoy Tyner“Plays John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard”
2003 Jane Monheit“In the Sun”
2002 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Supernova”
2002 Terence Blanchard“Let’s Get Lost”
2001 Terence Blanchard“Wandering Moon”
2000 Tom Harrell Big Band“Time’s Mirror”
2000 Gonzalo Rubalcaba“Inner Voyage”
1999 Joe Henderson“Porgy and Bess”
1998 JJ Johnson“The Brass Orchestra” (2 nominations)
1997 Conrad Herwig“The Latin Side of Coltrane”
1996 Tommy Flannigan Trio“Sea Changes”
1996 Maria Schneider“Coming About”
1995 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra“Desert Lady”
1994 McCoy Tyner Big Band“Uptown/Downtown”
1993 Bobby Watson Big Band“Taylor Made”
1991 Phil Woods Quintet“All Bird’s Children”
1990 James Moody & Dizzy Gillespie“Sweet and Lovely”
1984 Pepper Adams“Live at Fat Tuesday’s”
Radio and Television Awarded Programs and International Recording Awards
1995 Emmy Nominee“Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters” (PBS)
1992 Jazz Disc Award Best Engineering“The Nutman Speaks” Cyrus Chestnut
1989 Swing Journal Jazz Disc Award – Best Engineering & Best Album “V” - Ralph Peterson (Japan)
1983 George Foster Peabody Award“Taylor Made Piano” (NPR)
1982 International Radio Festival of New York Gold Award “H.P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider” with Gahan Wilson (Co-producer & Engineer-NPR)
1981 Emmy Nominee“In Performance at the White House-Andres Segovia”
1980 Informational Film Producers of America, Gold Cindy “Stock Car Racing” (Co-Producer & Engineer-NPR)
1977 George Foster Peabody Award “Sea Island Sketches” (NPR)
Oscar Nomination
2012 Best Animated Feature“Chico & Rita”