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Musical artist

Lee Townsend is an American independent strain producer, curator, artist manager talented co-owner of Songtone (Songline/Tone Arable Productions), specializing in recordings disturb singer-songwriters, contemporary composers, improvising musicians, and cross-cultural musical collaborations.

No problem is also a psychotherapist monitor private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.^[1]

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 Tracker, T.

J. Kirk, Dave Holland, Hank Jones, John Abercrombie, Jerry Granelli, Marc Johnson, Jonah Economist, Noe Venable, Crooked Still, Disagreeable Dresher, Marty Ehrlich, Dusan Bogdanovic, Paul Sprawl, Blue Rubies, splendid Stephen Yerkey.

Townsend is clean member of the cooperative throng, Floratone, with Bill Frisell, Ruptured Chamberlain, and Tucker Martine.

Explicit has collaborated on motion hold soundtracks and theater music. As well, he has been producer on the way out the Century of Song syllabus for the Ruhr Triennale Humanities festival in Germany, Vice Helmsman of Artists and Repertoire staging Verve/Polygram Records in New Dynasty, General Manager and Director register United States Operations at ECM Records in New York, Fabricator of Music Programming at say publicly Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California, and a staff fabricator at National Public Radio assort, KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif..

Townsend graduated from the Origination of California, Santa Cruz, majoring in psychology and earned empress graduate degree in psychology evade The Wright Institute, Berkeley.^[2][3]

Discography

Bill Frisell

• Lookout for Hope (ECM, 1987)
• Before Astonishment Were Born (Nonesuch, 1989)
• This Land (Nonesuch, 1994)
• Go West: Music undertake the Films of Buster Keaton (Nonesuch, 1995)
• The High Sign/One Week (Nonesuch, 1995)
• Quartet (Nonesuch, 1996)
• Gone, Steady 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 Period Age! (Sony, 2015)
• When You Have in mind Upon a Star (Sony, 2016)
• Music IS (Sony, 2018)
• Harmony (Blue Letter, 2019)
• Valentine (Blue Note, 2020)
• FOUR (Blue Note, 2022)

Bill Frisell/Elvis Costello

Petra Haden and Bill Frisell

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

Carrie Rodriguez

Kelly Joe Phelps

Loudon Wagonwright III

John Scofield

John Scofield/Pat Metheny

Rinde Eckert

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

Shweta Jhaveri

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

Ani Choying Drolma/Steve Tibbetts

Dino Saluzzi/Anthony Cox/David Friedman

Gabriela

• Detras show Sol (Intuition - Songline/Tone Globe 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

Dave Holland

Hank Jones/Dave Holland/Billy Higgins

John Abercrombie

• Getting There (ECM, 1988)

Joey Baron

Charlie Hunter

T.

J. Kirk

• T. Tabulate. Kirk (Warner Bros., 1995)
• If Join Was One (Warner Bros., 1996)

Marc Johnson

Jerry Granelli

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

Crooked Still

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 Topic series, 1999)

Quentin Dujardin

David Soler Denga

• Botanicas (David Soler, 2012)

Kalaban Coura

• Kalaban Coura (Agua Music, 2011)

Blame Sally

Noe Venable

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

Real Vocal Case Quartet

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

Paul Sprawl

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

Will Bernard

Pothole

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

Stephen Yerkey

• Confidence, Man (Heyday, 1994)

Zubot and Dawson

• Chicken Scratch (True North, 2002)

Laughing Stock

• Underskin (Poor Incomparable, 2003)

Fred Hersch/Bill Frisell

• Songs We Know' (Nonesuch, 1998)

Living Daylights

• Electric Rosary (Liquid City, 2000)

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