Tom Dowd

An employee engineer at Atlantic Information for more than 25 years, Dowd’s exploits with respect to R&B, spirit and rock organizations are popular, but he also engineered several jazz times by Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, the present day Jazz Quartet and Ray Charles, amongst others. Dowd do landmark use multi-tracking, assisting Atlantic become among the nation’s greatest facilities in the first times of eight-track and stereo system recording. Both an educated musician and physics and consumer electronics master, Dowd realized sound through the technical and efficiency aspects. He later on continued to craft strike albums like a maker for Eric Clapton, Pole Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago, MeatLoaf as well as the Wayne Gang. On Oct 27, 2002, Dowd passed on at a medical house in Aventura, Fla. after fighting a respiratory disease for pretty much 2 yrs. He was 77.