Overview
- He died on Sept. 15 in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his daughter saying he suffered an aortic dissection.
- Across 11 Grammy nominations, he won seven awards, including for Ray Charles’s Genius Loves Company, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, In the Heights, the Chicago soundtrack, and Tony Bennett’s Playin’ With My Friends.
- He was credited with pioneering the transfer of analog recordings to 24-track digital for Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense.
- His film work spanned scores and soundtracks for titles such as Footloose, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sister Act, Sleepless in Seattle, City Slickers, A Few Good Men, and Chicago.
- A longtime presence at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs as a sound designer and archivist, he will be honored there on Oct. 14 at 5 p.m., with the event livestreamed at caffelena.tv; survivors include his wife, daughter, and two grandchildren.