Jim Anderson (sound engineer)

{{Short description|American musical artist}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Jim Anderson

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| origin = Pittsburgh, United States of America

| instrument = French Horn

| genre = Jazz and acoustic music

| occupation = Record producer, sound engineer and audio mixer

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| associated_acts = Eubie Blake, Sonny Rollins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Charles Mingus

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Jim Anderson is a recording engineer and producer of acoustic music in the recording, radio, television, and film industries.{{ cite web | url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/24389-stolen-moments | title=Jazz Times | accessdate=2010-07-28 | author=Thomas Conrad | quote=If audiophiles ran the world, would not all jazz recordings get made...by great engineers like...Jim Anderson...?}}{{cite web | url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=61271 | title=All About Jazz | accessdate=2010-07-28 | author=Doug Ramsey | quote=superior sound by first-rate engineers like Jim Anderson | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726182256/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=61271 | archive-date=2010-07-26 | url-status=dead }}

Early career

Anderson attended Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. He worked at the public radio station WDUQ-FM and was later employed for six years at National Public Radio as a broadcast technician.{{ cite web | url=http://www.jimandersonsound.com/stereophile042001.html | title=Aural Robert | accessdate=2010-07-29 | author=Robert Baird | quote=}}

Awards

Anderson's recordings have received 13 Grammy awards and 26 Grammy nominations. In broadcasting, his work has received two Peabody Awards for radio programs, and two Emmy Award nominations for television programs.

Anderson's surround mix of Patricia Barber's "Modern Cool" won the Grammy for Best Surround Album in 2013.[http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=54 Nominees]grammy.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210142641/http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=54 |date=2012-12-10 }} Jane Ira Bloom's Sixteen Sunsets received a Grammy nomination for Best Surround Album in 2014.{{cite web |title=Grammys 2014: The complete list of nominees and winners |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-grammy-nominations-winners-list-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=21 July 2020 |date=7 December 2013}} In 2018, Anderson's mix of Jane Ira Bloom's Early Americans won a Grammy for Best Surround Album. Anderson mixed the album "just for fun" in 1.5 days.{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Jim |title=Q&A with Jim Anderson |url=https://immersiveaudioalbum.com/2021/01/qa-with-jim-anderson-recording-engineer-and-grammy-winner-many-times-over/ |website=ImmersiveAudioAlbum.com }} His recording of Patricia Barber's "Clique" was nominated for the Grammy 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://grammy.com/artists/jim-anderson/242|title=Jim Anderson | Artist | GRAMMY.com|website=grammy.com|accessdate=25 April 2024}}

A 1969 Butler High School graduate,{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} Anderson was the 2013 Distinguished Graduate Award recipient.[https://www.basdk12.org/docs/district/alumni/class%20of%202013.pdf?id=2478 Alumni] Butler Area School District {{dead link|date=April 2024}} He was honored by his college alma mater, Duquesne University, with the University's Mary Pappert School of Music Alumni Achievement Award in 2018.

Educational and Industry Activities

Anderson has been a lecturer and guest faculty member at multiple institutions including Berklee College of Music,{{cite web |title=Berklee College of Music - MP&E Visiting Artists |url=https://college.berklee.edu/visiting-artists-music-production-engineering |accessdate=25 March 2024}} McGill University, Banff Centre of the Arts, Berlin University of the Arts, University of Luleå (Sweden), the New School, Penn State University, and the University of Massachusetts/Lowell. Anderson was president of the Audio Engineering Society; he has chaired AES conventions and received the AES Fellowship Award.{{ cite web | url=http://www.prosoundnews.com/article/24712 | title=Pro Sound News | accessdate=2010-07-28 | author=Clive Young | quote=}} Anderson was chair at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, 2004-2008. He is currently a professor in this program.{{cite web | url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/clive-davis-institute/1169001913 | title=Jim Anderson - Professor - Clive Davis Institute - Music Production }}

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