Michael Cuscuna

American jazz producer and writer, born September 20 1949, Stamford, Connecticut - died April 20, 2024. As a freelancer, he researched the archive of the Blue Note label from 1975 especially for releasable unissued recordings which eventually led to the co-founding (with Charlie Lourie) of Mosaic Records in 1983. During the course of his career, Cuscuna worked on jazz releases for the major record companies, including Sony on box-sets of its Miles Davis holdings recorded by Columbia, as well as supervising new sessions for independents, though he is best known for producing reissues. He won Grammy Awards for box-sets of Nat King Cole (his Capitol piano trio recordings) and Billie Holiday (her 1933-1944 recordings), as well as for writing the notes for a Davis set.