Arnaldo DeSouteiro

Los Angeles-based Brazilian record producer, Arnaldo DeSouteiro is the founder and CEO of the [l=JSR] (Jazz Station Records) label, a division of Jazz Station Marketing & Consulting, located in LA, California. Influenced by [a=Creed Taylor], [a=Rudy Van Gelder] and [a=Tommy LiPuma], he is also a journalist, publicist, arranger, composer, percussionist, radio DJ, sound engineer, educator, Member of IAJE, JJA (Jazz Journalists Association), LAJS (Los Angeles Jazz Society), AIM, ABI, and Voting Member of NARAS-GRAMMY. Arnaldo DeSouteiro has produced over 350 albums and sessions featuring such artists as [a=Luiz Bonfa], [a=João Gilberto], [a=Dom Um Romao], [a=Ithamara Koorax], [a=Thiago De Mello], [a=Dexter Payne], [a=João Donato], [a=Palmyra & Levita], [a=Mario Castro Neves], [a=David Sanborn], [a=Luiz Millan], [a=Mark Egan], Jorge Pescara, Paula Faour, Fabio Fonseca, [a=Claudio Roditi], Anna Ly, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Pascoal Meirelles, Yana Purim, [a=Carlos Pingarilho], Nelson Angelo, [a=Marcelo Salazar], [a=Ron Carter], [a=Antonio Carlos Jobim], [a=Steve Swallow], [a=Herbie Hancock], [a=Hugo Fattoruso], [a=Larry Coryell], Sadao Watanabe, Jurgen Friedrich, Eloir De Moraes, Gazzara, [a=Eumir Deodato], Jadir de Castro, Azymuth, Marcio Montarroyos, Sivuca, Laudir de Oliveira, Marcos Valle, Jay Berliner, George Young, [a=David Matthews], Lew Soloff, Alphonso Johnson, [a=Gene Bertoncini], John McLaughlin, [a=Claus Ogerman], Raul de Souza, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and many others. Besides his work for JSR, DeSouteiro has produced many reissues, compilations and new projects for [l=Verve], [l=Milestone Records], [l=Fantasy Records], [l=CTI Records], [l=Kudu], Sony, [l=Sonet], JVC, Huks, Motema, Warner, RCA, BMG, [l=Paddle Wheel], [l=Rambling Records] and other labels. He is married to actress Lisa Marie.