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Lee Townsend

Background information
Born	(1958-02-06) February 6, 1958 (age 66) Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Record Producer, Artist Manager, Curator, Psychotherapist
Years active	1983–present

Website	www.songtone.com

Musical artist

Lee Townsend is an American independent music producer, curator, artist manager and co-owner of Songtone (Songline/Tone Field Productions), specializing in recordings of singer-songwriters, contemporary composers, improvising musicians, and cross-cultural musical collaborations. He is also a psychotherapist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Background and career

Since 1983, Townsend has produced albums by Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Loudon Wainwright III, Kelly Joe Phelps, Rinde Eckert, Vinicius Cantuaria, Shweta Jhaveri, Dino Saluzzi, Gabriela Anders, Petra Haden, Viktor Krauss, Elvis Costello/Bill Frisell, Choying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts, Pat Metheny/John Scofield, Joey Baron, Charlie Hunter, T. J. Kirk, Dave Holland, Hank Jones, John Abercrombie, Jerry Granelli, Marc Johnson, Jonah Smith, Noe Venable, Crooked Still, Paul Dresher, Marty Ehrlich, Dusan Bogdanovic, Paul Sprawl, Blue Rubies, and Stephen Yerkey.

Townsend is a member of the cooperative group, Floratone, with Bill Frisell, Matt Chamberlain, and Tucker Martine. He has collaborated on motion picture soundtracks and theater music. Additionally, he has been producer of the Century of Song program for the Ruhr Triennale Arts festival in Germany, Vice President of Artists and Repertoire for Verve/Polygram Records in New York, General Manager and Director of United States Operations at ECM Records in New York, Producer of Music Programming at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California, and a staff producer at National Public Radio affiliate, KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, California.

Townsend graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, majoring in psychology and earned his graduate degree in psychology from The Wright Institute, Berkeley.

Discography

Bill Frisell

Lookout for Hope (ECM, 1987)
Before We Were Born (Nonesuch, 1989)
This Land (Nonesuch, 1994)
Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton (Nonesuch, 1995)
The High Sign/One Week (Nonesuch, 1995)
Quartet (Nonesuch, 1996)
Gone, Just Like a Train (Nonesuch, 1998)
Good Dog, Happy Man (Nonesuch, 1999)
Ghost Town (Nonesuch, 2000)
Blues Dream (Nonesuch, 2001)
With Dave Holland and Elvin Jones (Nonesuch, 2001)
The Willies (Nonesuch, 2002)
The Intercontinentals (Nonesuch, 2003)
Further East/Further West (Nonesuch, 2005) Download-only
East/West (Nonesuch, 2005)
Frisell/Carter/Motian (Nonesuch, 2006) Download-only
Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian (Nonesuch, 2006)
Floratone (Blue Note, 2007)
History, Mystery (Nonesuch, 2008)
All Hat, (Universal, 2008)
Disfarmer (Nonesuch, 2009)
Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy, 2010)
Lágrimas Mexicanas (Bill Frisell & Vinicius Cantuaria/E1, 2011)
Sign of Life (Savoy, 2011)
All We Are Saying (Savoy, 2011)
Floratone II (Savoy, 2012)
Big Sur (Sony, 2013)
Guitar in the Space Age! (Sony, 2015)
When You Wish Upon a Star (Sony, 2016)
Music IS (Sony, 2018)
Harmony (Blue Note, 2019)
Valentine (Blue Note, 2020)
FOUR (Blue Note, 2022)

Bill Frisell/Elvis Costello

Deep Dead Blue (Nonesuch, 1995)
The Sweetest Punch (w/Cassandra Wilson) (Decca, 1999)

Petra Haden and Bill Frisell

Petra Haden and Bill Frisell (True North, 2003/Skip, 2004)

Carrie Rodriguez

We Still Love Our Country (Ninth Street Opus, 2010)
Love and Circumstance (Ninth Street Opus, 2010)
Give Me All You Got (Ninth Street Opus, 2013)
Lola (Luz/Thirty Tigers, 2016)

Kelly Joe Phelps

Slingshot Professionals (Rykodisc, 2003)
Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind (True North/Rykodisc, 2005)

Loudon Wainwright III

Here Come the Choppers (Sovereign Artists, 2005)

John Scofield

Hand Jive (w/Eddie Harris) (Blue Note, 1994)
Groove Elation (Blue Note, 1995)
A Go Go (w/Medeski Martin & Wood) (Verve, 1998)
Bump (Verve, 2000)

John Scofield/Pat Metheny

I Can See Your House from Here (Blue Note, 1994)

Rinde Eckert

Finding My Way Home (DIW, 1992)
Do the Day Over (City of Tribes, 1995)
Story In, Story Out (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1997)
The Natural World (Songtone/National Sawdust, 2018)

Shweta Jhaveri

Anahita (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1999)

Ani Choying Drolma/Steve Tibbetts

Selwa (Six Degrees, 2004)

Dino Saluzzi/Anthony Cox/David Friedman

Rios (Intuition, 1995)

Detras del Sol (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1997)
Viento Rojo (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1999)
El Viaje (Intuition, 2006)

Vinicius Cantuária

Vinicius (Transparent, 2001)
Lagrimas Mexicanas (with Bill Frisell, E1, 2011)

Viktor Krauss

Far from Enough (Nonesuch/2004)
II (Back Porch/EMI, 2007)

Dave Holland

Triplicate (ECM, 1988)

Hank Jones/Dave Holland/Billy Higgins

The Oracle (Polygram, 1990)

John Abercrombie

Getting There (ECM, 1988)

Down Home (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1997)
We'll Soon Find Out (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 2000)

Charlie Hunter

Bing, Bing, Bing! (Blue Note, 1995)
Ready...Set...Shango (Blue Note, 1996)
Natty Dread (Blue Note, 1997)
Return of the Candyman (Blue Note, 1998)
Friends Seen and Unseen (Ropeadope, 2004)

T. J. Kirk

T. J. Kirk (Warner Bros., 1995)
If Four Was One (Warner Bros., 1996)

Marc Johnson

Right Brain Patrol (JMT, 1992)
The Sound of Summer Running (Verve, 1998)

Jerry Granelli

A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing (ITM, 1993)
Another Place (Intuition, 1994)
News from the Street (Intuition, 1995)
Broken Circle (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1996)
Sand Hills Reunion (Songlines, 2004)
Dance Hall (Justin Time, 2017)

Crooked Still

Shaken By a Low Sound (Signature Sounds, 2006)

Jonah Smith

Jonah Smith (Relix, 2006)

Doug Wamble

Doug Wamble (Blue Note, 2009)

Dusan Bogdanovic

Early to Rise (Palo Alto, 1984)
Yano Mori (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1999)

Quentin Dujardin

Distances (Agua, 2012)

David Soler Denga

Botanicas (David Soler, 2012)

Kalaban Coura

Kalaban Coura (Agua Music, 2011)

Blame Sally

Night of 1000 Stars (Ninth Street Opus, 2009)

Noe Venable

No Curses Here (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1999)

Real Vocal String Quartet

Four Little Sisters (Irene Sazer, Flower Note Publishing, Alisa Rose, 2012)

Paul Sprawl

Blue Suitcase (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1999)

Will Bernard

Medicine Hat (Verve/Antilles, 1998)

Pothole

Dirty Picnic (Intuition - Songline/Tone Field series, 1997)

Stephen Yerkey

Confidence, Man (Heyday, 1994)

Zubot and Dawson

Chicken Scratch (True North, 2002)

Laughing Stock

Underskin (Poor Me, 2003)

Fred Hersch/Bill Frisell

Songs We Know' (Nonesuch, 1998)

Living Daylights

Electric Rosary (Liquid City, 2000)

References

Georgievsk, Nenad (2007-10-26). "Lee Townsend: Originality and Feeling". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
Patterson, Ian (2008-06-02). "All Hat". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=644 Lee Townsend - AAJ Interview

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