Eddie Korvin

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Eddie Korvin
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Eddie Korvin at Blue Rock Studio reception area, c. 1975
Background information
Occupation(s)Recording engineer, mixer, editor, studio owner,
music producer, arranger, composer
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Eddie Korvin (born 1945) is an American recording engineer, composer, and music producer.

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Korvin co-composed the score for the Emmy Award-winning documentary series This Was America alongside Ron Frangipane. They received particular recognition for their work on the episode "Hometown." [1] ```

Early years

Family friends and acquaintances in the music field included composers Burton Lane and Johnny Mercer, singer Anita Ellis, conductor Ted Saidenberg, violinist Issac Stern, bass-baritone George London, record store owner, Sam Goody, Arturo Toscanini, and Murray the K. [2]

Blue Rock Studio

Intentionally conceived as a one-room-only recording facility, Blue Rock Studio offered privacy and intimacy in a creative surrounding. [3]

As described in an interview with Ace Records [ disambiguation needed ] some 40 years after the event: “Right away, Bill booked himself into New York’s Blue Rock studios and within four hours his band laid down 9 tracks. Two hours later, the album 'Let's Do It Again' had been mixed! Bill acknowledges the input of the studio staff; 'The guy responsible for our sound was Eddie Korvin – he was the engineer. He said he never heard a session recorded this way in his life – so he kept it the way we played.'" [4]

Work in television and film

Korvin began composing music commercially around 1980, scoring for projects in film, television and commercials. In 1982, he won an Emmy Award for scoring an episode of the documentary series, “This Was America”. Working with film director David Sutherland, a former classmate at Tufts University, Korvin was composer and assistant director for the award-winning film, Jack Levine: A Feast Of Pure Reason. [5] Other scoring projects included two more films with Sutherland for PBS as well as shows for HBO, Cinemax and an ABC TV Christmas special. [6] Still active today, he has recently worked with director John Alexander as music supervisor on Bender and on Little Satchmo as assistant director, music supervisor, and composer . [7] [8] In 2023, he won a second Emmy for his work on Little Satchmo. [9] In 2024, in partnership with his son, Edouard Korvin, he opened a post production audio facility, Studio 26, in Santa Monica, CA and completed music and sound design on a feature documentary, God As My Witness, directed by Lindsay Q. Pitre. [10]

References

  1. "Studio Update" (PDF). Recording Engineer/Producer. 12 (6): 131–132. December 1981.
  2. "Eddie Korvin". The Tin Whistle. 20 March 2011. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. "The Mood Is 'Down-Home' At Blue Rock". Billboard. 25 December 1982.
  4. "Fatback". Ace Records. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  5. "Filmography: Jack Levine: "Feast of Pure Reason" 1989". PBS. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  6. "Christmas Miracles". Variety. 12 December 1997. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  7. "Bender: Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  8. Documentary, Little Satchmo. "Little Satchmo Documentary". Little Satchmo. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  9. Staff, OffBeat (2023-06-21). "Little Satchmo Documentary Wins Emmy". OffBeat Magazine. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  10. "Edouard Korvin | Composer". IMDb. Retrieved 2025-03-10.