[Update] Timbaland & Co. Honor Jimmy Douglass At Producers & Engineers Wing Grammy Event [Video]

Legendary engineer Jimmy Douglass was honored during the annual Producers & Engineers Wing Grammy Week party, a night dedicated to the people shaping music behind the scenes. The celebration also marked 25 years of the P&E Wing, bringing together some of the most influential names in modern music. 

Jimmy Douglass Talks Working With Timbaland

 
Grammy award-winning engineer Jimmy Douglass discusses Missy Elliott working on Aaliyah’s “4 Page Letter,” why Ginuwine’s “Pony” was never fully mixed, and how record labels have contaminated the music-making process. For “Studios Sessions,” we delve into the stories behind the long hours in the studio and all that goes into making an album by talking with artists, producers, engineers, photographers, and more who are intimately connected to the recording process with some of the biggest artists in the world.

These are the stories that rarely leave the booth. Jimmy Douglass has been an accomplished engineer for more than 40 years, who’s helped Timbaland, Aretha Franklin, Slave, JAY-Z, Aaliyah, Ginuwine and a Hall of Fame list of others do more than just make great music. “I actually got the deal for Ginuwine. I took ‘Pony’ to Sony and was also taking Timbaland’s work around because no one had ever heard of him,” Douglass told REVOLT.

*revolt.tv

How Timbaland & Jimmy Douglass Changed Pop Music By Ignoring The Tape Machine

By Alexander Iadarola. The legendary producer and engineer drops some serious knowledge on Aretha, Ginuwine, and what today's producers can learn from the past Jimmy "The Senator" Douglass is an American record producer, engineer and mixer who has worked in the business since he was a teenager, putting in hours copying tape in Atlantic Records' famous studios in New York in the '70s. He learned his craft by carefully studying the movements of Tom Dowd, one of the most famous engineers of the era, and soon started overseeing sessions himself.

In the years since, he's worked with practically everyone: soul icons Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway; rock legends Foreigner, Genesis, The Rolling Stones, and Roxy Music; post-punk agitators Television and Gang Of Four; R&B superstars Destiny's Child and Brandy; hip-hop moguls Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and Lil' Kim; and a clutch of FADER cover stars including Kanye, Blood Orange, and Kindness. Perhaps his most famous partnership, however, is with Timbaland.

*thefader.com