Helping to build Miles Davis albums like “Bitches Brew,” “In a Silent Way” and “Get Up With It,” Mr. Macero (pronounced TEE-oh mah-SEH-roh) used techniques partly inspired by composers like Edgard Varèse, who had been using tape-editing and electronic effects to help shape the music. Such techniques were then new to jazz and have largely remained separate from it since. But the electric-jazz albums he helped Davis create — especially “Bitches Brew,” which remains one of the best-selling albums by a jazz artist — have deeper echoes in almost 40 years of experimental pop, like work by Can, Brian Eno and Radiohead.
macero was one of the deciding factors in me deciding to explore the seemingly limitless possibilities in audio production and editing and move beyond merely playing and creating music. as the article rightly states, he had a lasting, although largely unsung, impact on the subsequent decades following his collaborative relationship w/ miles davis. macero was one of the first producers to stretch the boundaries of what record producers usually do and had a vital role in the end result; a precursor to the "superstar producer" of today.
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