He was born in Los Angeles, but his family moved to Madison shortly afterwards and Feldman’s passion for jazz goes to deep Milwaukee familial roots. That was like putting fire on gasoline and led directly to what I’m doing now.”īut Feldman’s back story shaped who he would become. I was given an intriguing proposition: if I found unreleased jazz recordings, not just reissues, but newly unearthed material, George said I could produce it for release on the label. “Since Resonance, my life was forever transformed. He also co-produced the monumental 2021 release of John Coltrane A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle on Impulse.Īmid this auspicious career in the music’s archeological byways, Feldman found his seeming destiny when he crossed paths with “my dear friend and mentor (producer) George Klabin at Resonance Records,” he says.
He’s co-produced several other labels’ important historic projects like the acclaimed Thelonious Monk discoveries Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Palo Alto. In 2016, he was voted Rising Star Producer in DownBeat magazine's International Critics Poll, and he was voted Producer of the Year in 2022. He's been dubbed “the Indiana Jones of Jazz” in Stereophile magazine and is widely known as the “Jazz Detective.” Over the last 25 years, he has worked for PolyGram, Universal Music Group, Rhino/Warner Music Group, and Concord Music Group, among others. The Grammy-nominated independent record producer, and the co-president of Resonance Records, is now also a consulting producer of archival and historical recordings for Blue Note Records, the quintessential jazz label. Hearing such spectral vibes over and over, the researcher-record producer has become one of the most important non-jazz musicians in the art form, responsible for an astonishing bounty of recordings that are helping reshape the legacy of jazz history.Īnd his musical roots are deep, if not pure, Milwaukee. Zev Feldman (left) with Sonny Stitt's children Katea and Jason Stitt Zev Feldman, Katea Stitt, and Jason Stitt
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