Swedien often said his favorite recording project was "Thriller." He also released a book in September 2009 called "In The Studio With Michael Jackson." I guess he was what you would call a health nut.”īruce also recorded Michael Jackson’s subsequent albums, "Dangerous," "HIStory" and "Invincible." Swedien has stated he wanted people to best remember him by his work recording “Earth Song” by Michael Jackson. “He never drank coffee,” Swedien remembered in 2009. 1 hits, in honor of what would have been his 60th birthdayĭuring the six grueling months recording "Thriller," Swedien said Jackson was a perfect gentleman and “consummate professional.” He recalls Jackson tuning up his voice with scales each day before beginning 10-hour recording sessions that would carry deep into the night in pursuit of the perfect album. Swedien, then 75, said Jackson was a perfectionist when it came to making music, was gentle and kind, and intensely dedicated to his craft. "His contributions to Michael Jackson's sound was invaluable." Working with Michael Jacksonīack in 2009, Swedien talked to the Star-Banner about the death of Jackson and what the King of Pop meant to the industry. "As one of the most imaginative audio engineers to ever walk into a recording studio, Bruce Swedien was involved in the creation of some of the most memorable moments for music's most iconic artists," the Tweet noted. On Michael Jackson's Twitter account, which is operated by his estate since his death 11 years ago, also saluted Swedien. Swedien also recorded Michael Jackson’s subsequent albums, Dangerous, HIStory, and Invincible. “His mastery of technique, combined with his innate musical sensibility and a virtually limitless sonic canvas, resulted in many of the best recordings of all time - recordings that even today set the standard for the way music should sound." “This process opened up the potential for Swedien’s sonic imagination to run wild,” Roberta wrote. She said the process included several 24-track tape machines, “synchronized together as one recorder.” “It was during this time that Bruce created a recording processed that he called ‘The Acusonic Recording Process,’ ” said Roberta Swedien. Swedien actually created his own recording process that many sound engineers still try to replicate today, his daughter said.
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His movie credits include “The Color Purple,” “The Wiz,” “Running Scared,” and “Night Shift.” How legendary was Swedien? Here is just a handful of music greats he worked with: Duke Ellington, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Jennifer Lopez, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, James Ingram, Lena Horne, Diana Ross and Sergio Mendes. Rest In Peace my brother.” "Mastery of technique" I will cherish every moment we shared together laughin’, lovin’, livin’, & givin’. “That was the sonic genius of Bruce Swedien, & to this day I can hear artists trying to replicate him,” Jones wrote. Jones said he has "always said it’s no accident that more than four decades later no matter where I go in the world, in every club, like clockwork at the witching hour you hear ‘Billie Jean,’ ‘Beat It,’ ‘Wanna Be Starting Something,’ & ‘Thriller.’ ”
“He was without question the absolute best engineer in the business, & for more than 70 years I wouldn’t even think about going into a recording session unless I knew Bruce was behind the board,” Jones wrote. “There are not enough words to express how much Bruce meant to me.”
“I am absolutely devastated to learn the news that we lost my dear brother-in-arms, the legendary Bruce Swedien,” Jones wrote on Roberta’s Facebook page. The news of his death, released this week by his daughter Roberta Swedien, of Gainesville, was a shock to Quincy Jones. 16 at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville of complications from hip surgery. Swedien, who had lived in Ocala for many years, died Nov. Those albums cemented Swedien, a five-time Grammy Award winner, as one of the best sound masters in music history. Those albums escalated Jackson to the title of King of Pop by the end of the 1980s. Thriller would become the all-time best-selling album. During the next decade, he teamed up with Jones and Jackson to create the iconic albums “Bad” and “Thriller.” Swedien was a sound engineer working with Jones on the 1979 album “Off the Wall,” the first solo album of Michael Jackson. You can see the joy in sound engineer Bruce Swedien’s face as he leaned back in a comfy chair in a sound studio, sitting next to grinning legendary music producer Quincy Jones in a photo snapped about 40 years ago.
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