Jazz Articles about Teo Macero

Teo Macero Presents The Inner World Band: Study in Contrast

by Ivana Ng
May 7, 2008

Teo Macero, who while at Columbia Records produced many Miles Davis records from Kind of Blue (1959) to Bitches Brew (1969), as well as other seminal discs like Dave Brubeck's Time Out (1959) and Ellington's Blues in Orbit (1958), passed away in February at age 82. Study in Contrast, recorded in 2007 with the NYU Steinhardt Jazz Orchestra--which he called “The Inner World Band"--is full of boundless energy and reveals just how youthful Macero was as both composer and producer. ...