By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 09/01/2002

Producer John Hoffman was instrumental in selecting the music for the HBO documentary In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01. He explains how the music...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 03/01/2001

Bob Clearmountain's success as a mix engineer through the years has led to a string of plum production assignments. By the early 90s, he'd...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 03/01/2001

I try to apply the same standards to my work that would be applied if every session I did wound up on the majors....

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 01/01/2001

STEVE TUSHAR'S MIX OF MUSIC AND AUDIO POST Making it as a freelance sound designer/mixer in L.A. is no layup. The competition is fierce,...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 01/01/2001

Offering one-stop shopping to clients in the highly competitive New York advertising business has become critically important over the last decade or

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 01/01/2001

If you grow up in Ridgewood, N.J., wanting to play gut-bucket R&B and '60s soul with conviction, then you've got some work to do....

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 10/01/2000

POP TO CLASSICAL TO POETRY Engineer/producer Dixon Van Winkle has traveled many miles in a career that spans three decades, but his story begins...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

A STUDIO PRO FINDS HIS HOME Growing up in Old Greenwich, Conn., the son of a professional trumpet player who headed off to New...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 08/01/2000

Marshall Mathers-better known to his legion of fans as Eminem-is the music industry equivalent of basketball player Jason Williams. The Sacramento Kings

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 07/01/2000

Its Grand Ole image may keep outsiders from seeing Nashville as a center of technological advancement, but there's plenty of forward thinking going on

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 05/01/2000

Remember Ohio Express and their bookend hits "Yummy Yummy Yummy" and "Chewy, Chewy"? Joey Levine does. As a teenage singer/songwriter Levine penned and

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 04/01/2000

Back in the day, Steve Tyrell was just another gravel-throated white guy who loved to sing R&B. He sang in two bands when he...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

The Toy Specialists has been a Manhattan fixture for the past 15 years, supplying major studios in the area with the equipment that top-shelf...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

Steven Gold jumped into the music business early on, singing jingle dates with his two brothers while still attending grade school in the Bronx....

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

If you were looking to broadcast your morning news show from a location that registers "center of the world" to millions of people around...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

Professional associations with the likes of Miles Davis, The Crusaders, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Brian Setzer would tame the ambition of many

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

Growing up in Queens, N.Y., Irwin Fisch gave little thought to a career in music. After high school, he earned a degree in journalism...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 10/01/1999

When Chris McHale and his partner Joe Barone drew up plans for their new facility, Irving's Place, they kept the ad market firmly in...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 10/01/1999

Drummer Mark Ambrosino has worked with some of the best, including Michael Brecker, Whitney Houston, Leonard Bernstein, Michael McDonald and Michael Bolton.

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 10/01/1999

Bloodlines run deep in the music business, as Queens native Chieli Minucci readily acknowledges. His father, Ulpio, was a composer ("Domani") and arranger

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 07/01/1999

The audio post industry is booming right now. Three-room facilities are adding more suites. One-room shops have too much work and are adding pre-production

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Although the benefits of spending one's days surrounded by simple beauty and the charms of our Colonial past can't be discounted, it's still not...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

A shift has slowly been taking place in the Manhattan advertising community over the past several years, and increasingly, it involves a trip down...