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Michael Cuscuna, Grammy-Winning Jazz Producer and Mosaic Records Co-Founder, Dies at 75
Michael Cuscuna, a Grammy-winning jazz producer and Mosaic records co-founder, has died. He was 75.
Cuscuna died April 20 of cancer at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, according to Grammy-winning recording artist Billy Vera, Cuscana’s longtime friend and collaborator. Cuscana was said to have got the idea for Mosaic in the early 1980s when he discovered twenty-eight minutes of unreleased Thelonious Monk material from his Blue Note years, which led to him producing “The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk” as Mosaic’s debut, per a 2013 interview with Esquire. “It is not easy to bid farewell to a best friend, knowing that it’s a final goodbye,” Blue Note wrote on their socials.
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