Overview

• Family statements confirm he died September 15 in Saratoga Springs, New York, with the cause reported to The Hollywood Reporter by his daughter as an aortic dissection.
• Across six decades, he engineered scores for films including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Footloose, Sister Act, A Few Good Men and Chicago, and worked with artists such as Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Talking Heads and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
• He earned seven Grammys among 11 nominations, including Album of the Year for Ray Charles’ Genius Loves Company and wins for the Broadway cast albums of In the Heights and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
• He pioneered a key recording technique by transferring analog recordings to 24-track digital for Talking Heads’ 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense.
• In recent years he served as a sound technician, archivist and livestream operator at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, which will host a livestreamed celebration of his life on October 14 at 5 p.m. ET.