Jamie Howarth
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Jamie Howarth is an American television and film composer and musical director. Howarth owns and operates a multi-Grammy winning archive and restoration business which restores master tapes - Plangent Processes.{{cite web|url=http://www.nantucketindependent.com/news/2005/1130/Front_Page/004.html |title=Musician and entrepreneur Jamie Howarth finds commercial success |publisher=Mary Lancaster, writer for the Nantucket Independent |date=2005-11-30 |accessdate=2008-07-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516192204/http://www.nantucketindependent.com/news/2005/1130/Front_Page/004.html |archivedate=2008-05-16 }} One of its more notable restorations was the Woody Guthrie LiveWire - a 1949 concert which is the only known live recording of Guthrie prior to his illness. The project was awarded a Grammy for Best Historical Recording.
Howarth was born in New Jersey, and, as of 2002, resides in Nantucket. He lived in New York City, New York, in the eighties and nineties, during which period he worked at various media facilities including the Hit Factory, ABC-TV, and AudioTechniques.
Awards and nominations
He has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy awards for his work on "One Life to Live", and won three times; twice in 2000 for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series and Outstanding Achievement in Live & Direct to Tape Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, and once in 2001 for Outstanding Achievement in Live & Direct to Tape Sound Mixing for a Drama Series. His nomination in 1995 was for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397713/awards IMDB awards list for Jamie Howarth] He also won a Directors Guild of America award in 2000, for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Daytime Serials, for his work on "One Life to Live".{{cite web|date=March 11, 2001 |title=DGA announces winners of 2000 Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards and recipients of 2001 Lifetime Achievement Awards |work=Directors Guild of America |url=http://www.dga.org/news/pr_expand.php3?190 |accessdate=2008-08-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081115152321/http://www.dga.org/news/pr_expand.php3?190 |archivedate=November 15, 2008 }}
His first Daytime Emmy nomination was shared with Jill Mitwell, Peter Miner, David Pressman, Lonny Price, Gary Tomlin, Frank Valentini, Jim McDonald, Tracy Casper Lang, Mary Kelly Rodden, and James Sayegh. His first win was shared with Paul Glass, David Nichtern, Dominic Messinger, Kevin Bents, Lee Holdridge, Bette Sussman, and Rob Mounsey. His Directors Guild of America win was shared with Jill Mitwell, Owen Renfroe, Alan P. Needleman,
Richard A. Manfredi, and Teresa Anne Cicala.
Howarth's company, Plangent Processes, has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards, including Erroll Garner's Concert by the Sea and 2 wins for The Rolling Stones "Charley is My Darling" and for Best Historical Album in 2008, for their restoration of The Live Wire, a recorded live performance by Woody Guthrie, in 1949.{{cite magazine | date = February 10, 2008 | title = Grammy Wrap-Up: Herbie Hancock Beats Kanye in an Upset, Plus Winners List | magazine = Rolling Stone | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/02/11/grammy-wrap-up-herbie-hancock-wins-in-an-upset/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080214095130/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/02/11/grammy-wrap-up-herbie-hancock-wins-in-an-upset/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 14, 2008 | accessdate = 2008-08-05 }}{{cite web |url=http://woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=TLW&Category_Code=NRS |title=Official Woody Guthrie website's page on recent restoration of The Live Wire; 1949 performance. |publisher=www.woodyguthrie.org |accessdate=2008-08-01 |archive-date=2021-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126075406/https://www.woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=TLW&Category_Code=NRS |url-status=dead }} Plangent Processes has also restored master tapes for Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Grateful Dead,{{cite web |first=Steven |last=Stone |date=January 30, 2012 |url=https://audiophilereview.com/analog/plangent---a-better-way-to-transfer-analog-tape.html |title=Plangent – A Better Way to Transfer Analog Tape |website=Audiophile Review |access-date=May 30, 2020}}{{cite web |first=Gatta |last=John Patrick |date=October 28, 2018 |url=https://jambands.com/features/2018/10/28/david-lemieux-on-the-grateful-deads-precision-playing-and-pacific-northwest/3/ |title=David Lemieux on the Grateful Dead's Precision, "Playing", and "Pacific Northwest' |website=jambands.com |access-date=May 30, 2020}} the Neil Young Archives, Doc Watson, Tim Buckley, Pete Seeger, and the Andy Warhol estate, among others. Film soundtrack restoration for From Here to Eternity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cabaret, Camelot and West Side Story among others.
Credits
- One Life to Live (music director and mixer, 1999–2001)
- Threat of Exposure (composer, 2002)
- Silence (composer, 2003)
References
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External links
- {{IMDB name|0397713|Jamie Howarth}}
- [http://www.plangentprocesses.com/ Official website for Plangent Process]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705151857/http://nantucket.plumtv.com/videos/nantucketer_jamie_howarth_wins_grammy Howarth discusses Plangent Process (Video)]
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Musicians from Philadelphia
Category:American male composers
Category:21st-century American composers
Category:Daytime Emmy Award winners