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Richard James Burgess

January 01, 1970

Richard James Burgess MBE (born 29 June 1949) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, author, manager, marketer and inventor.[citation needed]

Richard James Burgess
MBE
Burgess in 2017
Background information
Also known as
  • Caleb Kadesh
  • Cadillac Jack
Born (1949-06-29) 29 June 1949 (age 74)
London, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
  • record producer
  • composer
  • author
  • manager
  • marketer
  • inventor
  • executive
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • drums
  • synthesizer
  • programming
Years active1971–present
Labels
Websiterichardjamesburgess.com

Burgess's music career spans more than 50 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and co-lead singer of the synthpop band Landscape, which released a top-5 hit in 1981 with the single "Einstein a Go-Go". Burgess is one of the main composers of Landscape's music, and made major musical and lyrical contributions to the band's songs. After the band's break-up, he pursued a brief, moderately successful solo career releasing one mini-album, Richard James Burgess in 1984.

He launched his career as a producer with Spandau Ballet's debut UK hit "To Cut a Long Story Short",[1] the first commercial success for the hitherto underground New Romantic movement.[2]

Burgess currently serves as the President and CEO of A2IM: American Association of Independent Music.

Early years edit

Richard James Burgess was born in London, England, and his family emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1959. He showed an early interest in music, especially drums,[3] and bought his first drumkit at the age of 14. As a drummer, he gained experience in local bands including Fred Henry, Orange, The Lordships and Barry Saunders.[4] Burgess also showed an early interest in recording production, buying a portable Tandberg tape recorder when he was 16 to make amateur recordings.

Burgess studied electronics at college before turning to studies in music.[5] In 1972, he left New Zealand to study with Alan Dawson at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and in 1973 moved back to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales).[6]

Career edit

Musician and recording artist edit

In the mid-1970s, Burgess was a member of the soft rock band Easy Street, together with Ken Nicol and Peter Marsh. The trio released two albums, Easy Street (1976) and Under the Glass (1977) and several singles, one of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100 ("I've Been Lovin' You").

From 1975 through the early 1980s, Burgess co-produced, co-wrote, programmed, sang and played drums for the electronic band Landscape with Christopher Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John Walters.[4] The band's RCA Records album From the Tea-rooms of Mars... To the Hell-holes of Uranus yielded the international hits "Einstein a Go-Go" and "Norman Bates". As a Capitol Records solo artist, he charted singles on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, reaching No. 1 on the New York Dance Music Report chart.

Burgess has played on many albums as a studio-drummer and percussionist, having worked with producers such as Tony Visconti, Peter Collins, Trevor Horn, Ian Levine, Robin Millar, Hugh Padgham, Mike Stone, Gary Langan, Barry Mason, Peter Dawkins, John Sinclair, Gary Lyons, and Junior Campbell. These include albums such as Adam Ant's Strip and The Buggles' The Age of Plastic. He also recorded jazz with the British National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Neil Ardley, Ian Carr and Nucleus, and the early Landscape recordings. He performed live with Graham Collier, OBE.[4]

Producer edit

In the early 1980s, Burgess emerged as the first producer of the New Romantic movement, producing Spandau Ballet's first two gold albums and first seven charting singles. He won a Music Week magazine sales award as a producer, and has created 24 chart singles and 14 charting albums.[7] Other productions included recordings for Living in a Box, Adam Ant, King, New Edition, Melba Moore, Colonel Abrams, America, Kim Wilde, Five Star, Tony Banks and Fish. He was also an ambient pioneer in producing the British group Praise. He produced, engineered and mixed albums by Rubicon and X-CNN under the pseudonym Caleb Kadesh and did several mixes using the pseudonym Cadillac Jack.[8] He was co-producer, co-executive producer, project manager and an author for Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology.[9] He also produced The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap[10] and is credited as associate producer on Tony Trischka's album Territory [11] and as a compiler of Classic Piano Blues for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.[12]

Burgess's mixes and remixes include tracks for 9½ Weeks, About Last Night and artists Thomas Dolby, Lou Reed, Youssou N'Dour,[13] and Luba.[8]

Innovator edit

Burgess defined the computer programmer's and sampler's role in modern music via his work in the 1970s, creating the first computer driven hit, "Einstein a Go-Go", using the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer. He is believed to be the first to record digital samples on a commercial recording with his programming of the Fairlight CMI[14][15] on Kate Bush's Never for Ever album and Visage's single "Fade to Grey". He conceptualised and co-designed the first standalone electronic drum set, the hexagonal shaped Simmons SDS-V.[16] He appeared on three separate occasions on the BBC Television programme Tomorrow's World demonstrating his prototype of the SDSV, the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, and the Fairlight CMI. He is also reported to have coined the name "New Romantic" for the subcultural movement of the early 1980s,[17] as well as the term "electronic dance music" (EDM), which first appeared on the record sleeve of the 1980 Landscape single "European Man".[18][19][20][21] His New York City productions of Colonel Abrams' gold singles "Trapped" (1984) and "I'm Not Gonna Let You" (1985) are widely considered to have been the precursors to house music,[22] with "Trapped" referred to as a proto-house track and a precursor to garage house.[23]

Educator and academic edit

Burgess is a member of the academic advisory committee for The Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production (ASARP, London College of Music). He has lectured on the subject of record production and the music business in the United States and in the United Kingdom. He wrote and presented the BBC World Service radio series Let There Be Drums. He taught drums at the Annapolis Music School in Maryland,[24] and has taught classes on record production and the music business at The Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts And Sciences.[25]

Author edit

Burgess's book The Art of Music Production: The Theory and Practice, which was in 1994 originally entitled The Art of Record Production,[26] is now in its fourth edition. In 2014 he published his second book, The History of Music Production.[27] He has written many chapters for other books and articles for technical and music magazines, as well as articles, papers and interviews for the academic Journal on the Association Art of Record Production (JARP), for which he is joint editor-in-chief.[28]

Manager and executive edit

In 1978, Burgess founded a management company, Heisenberg Ltd, which managed producers and engineers such as Phill Brown, Andy Jackson, Adam Moseley, and Rafe McKenna in the UK and US. The company changed its name to Burgess World Co in the mid-1980s, and relocated to Maryland from Los Angeles and New York in the mid-1990s where it managed many mid-Atlantic based artists including Jimmie's Chicken Shack.[29]

From 2001 to 2015, Burgess was employed at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings where he was the associate director of Business Strategies.[6]

Boards edit

Burgess has been a member of the executive board of the Music Managers Forum U.S. was on the national steering committee for the Recording Academy's Producer and Engineer Wing and has served as co-chair of the executive committee for Smithsonian Music,[30] a pan-institutional music initiative. He served as vice-president of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and co-chair for both the DC Chapter of the Producer and Engineer Wing, and the national Producer Compensation Committee. He was elected to the board of the American Association of Independent Music in 2013 and then to Chair of the board in 2015.

Non-profit work edit

Burgess is the current President and CEO of the American Association of Independent Music.[31]

Honours and awards edit

Burgess was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to music.[32]

In 2016 he received the British Council Education UK Alumni Award USA in the Professional Achievement category. As a member of the avant-garde electronic group Accord (with Christopher Heaton and Roger Cawkwell), he was featured on BBC Radio 3 programs Music in Our Time and Improvisation Workshop. With Landscape, he won the Greater London Arts Association's Young Jazz Musicians 1976 award and the Vitavox Live Sound award. Accord was also selected by the Arts Council of Great Britain for its Park Lane Group Purcell Room concert series.[4] He was featured in The A to Z of Rock Drummers.[33] In 2016, he won the British Council Education UK Alumni Award for Professional Achievement.

References edit

  1. ^ . Outside Organisation. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  2. ^ Hooper, Mark (1 May 2008). "Adventures in synth". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  3. ^ Reekie, Trevor. . NZ Musician. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d "Richard James Burgess". Memim Eencyclopedia. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  5. ^ Sarah Pixley. . The Electricity Club. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Smithsonian Folkways Staff". Smithsonian Folkways. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Richard James Burgess Discography". discogs. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  8. ^ a b "Richard James Burgess | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology – Various Artists". Smithsonian Folkways. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  10. ^ "The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap – Various Artists". Smithsonian Folkways. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Territory – Tony Trischka". Smithsonian Folkways. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  12. ^ "Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways – Various Artists". Smithsonian Folkways. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  13. ^ . Lura. 11 December 2009. Archived from the original on 10 October 2010.
  14. ^ "CMI Failight". Analog Vocoder Info. 20 October 2002. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  15. ^ . Artrocker. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  16. ^ Dean, Matt (2011). The Drum: A History. Scarecrow Press. pp. 370+. ISBN 978-0810881709.
  17. ^ Hooper, Mark (1 May 2008). "Adventures in synth". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  18. ^ "RICHARD JAMES BURGESS Interview". electricityclub.co.uk. 27 July 2010.
  19. ^ Burgess, Richard James (17 August 2014). The History of Music Production. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199357178 – via Google Books.
  20. ^ "Images for Landscape - European Man". Discogs.
  21. ^ "Richard James Burgess". SoundExchange.
  22. ^ . Housegroove.net. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  23. ^ Burgess, Richard James (17 August 2014). The History of Music Production. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199357178 – via Google Books.
  24. ^ . Tony Fazio. Archived from the original on 13 June 2008.
  25. ^ McCarter, Mickey (2 April 2015). "Don't Miss: Spandau Ballet @ 9:30 Club, 4/28/15". Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  26. ^ The Art of Music Production published by Omnibus Press. Theartofmusicproduction.com. 2005. ISBN 1844494314. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  27. ^ The History of Music Production. Oxford University Press. 25 July 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-935716-1. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  28. ^ "Instructions for Contributors" (PDF). Journal on the Art of Record Production. 7. ASARP. 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  29. ^ "Burgess World Co". Burgess World Co. 26 February 2004. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  30. ^ "Richard James Burgess". Academia. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  31. ^ "Frontpage – A2IM". A2IM. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  32. ^ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N28.
  33. ^ Shapiro, Harry (1982). The A to Z of Rock Drummers. Proteus. ISBN 9780862760854. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

External links edit

  • Richard James Burgess discography at Discogs  
  • Richard James Burgess at AllMusic

January 01, 1970
richard, james, burgess, born, june, 1949, english, musician, singer, songwriter, record, producer, composer, author, manager, marketer, inventor, citation, needed, mbeburgess, 2017background, informationalso, known, ascaleb, kadesh, cadillac, jackborn, 1949, . Richard James Burgess MBE born 29 June 1949 is an English musician singer songwriter record producer composer author manager marketer and inventor citation needed Richard James BurgessMBEBurgess in 2017Background informationAlso known asCaleb Kadesh Cadillac JackBorn 1949 06 29 29 June 1949 age 74 London EnglandGenresSynth pop new waveOccupation s Musician singer songwriter record producer composer author manager marketer inventor executiveInstrument s Vocals drums synthesizer programmingYears active1971 presentLabelsEvent Horizon RCA CapitolWebsiterichardjamesburgess wbr com Burgess s music career spans more than 50 years He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co founder and co lead singer of the synthpop band Landscape which released a top 5 hit in 1981 with the single Einstein a Go Go Burgess is one of the main composers of Landscape s music and made major musical and lyrical contributions to the band s songs After the band s break up he pursued a brief moderately successful solo career releasing one mini album Richard James Burgess in 1984 He launched his career as a producer with Spandau Ballet s debut UK hit To Cut a Long Story Short 1 the first commercial success for the hitherto underground New Romantic movement 2 Burgess currently serves as the President and CEO of A2IM American Association of Independent Music Contents 1 Early years 2 Career 2 1 Musician and recording artist 2 2 Producer 2 3 Innovator 2 4 Educator and academic 2 5 Author 2 6 Manager and executive 2 7 Boards 2 8 Non profit work 3 Honours and awards 4 References 5 External linksEarly years editRichard James Burgess was born in London England and his family emigrated to Christchurch New Zealand in 1959 He showed an early interest in music especially drums 3 and bought his first drumkit at the age of 14 As a drummer he gained experience in local bands including Fred Henry Orange The Lordships and Barry Saunders 4 Burgess also showed an early interest in recording production buying a portable Tandberg tape recorder when he was 16 to make amateur recordings Burgess studied electronics at college before turning to studies in music 5 In 1972 he left New Zealand to study with Alan Dawson at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and in 1973 moved back to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama He holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Glamorgan now the University of South Wales 6 Career editMusician and recording artist edit In the mid 1970s Burgess was a member of the soft rock band Easy Street together with Ken Nicol and Peter Marsh The trio released two albums Easy Street 1976 and Under the Glass 1977 and several singles one of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100 I ve Been Lovin You From 1975 through the early 1980s Burgess co produced co wrote programmed sang and played drums for the electronic band Landscape with Christopher Heaton Andy Pask Peter Thoms and John Walters 4 The band s RCA Records album From the Tea rooms of Mars To the Hell holes of Uranus yielded the international hits Einstein a Go Go and Norman Bates As a Capitol Records solo artist he charted singles on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart reaching No 1 on the New York Dance Music Report chart Burgess has played on many albums as a studio drummer and percussionist having worked with producers such as Tony Visconti Peter Collins Trevor Horn Ian Levine Robin Millar Hugh Padgham Mike Stone Gary Langan Barry Mason Peter Dawkins John Sinclair Gary Lyons and Junior Campbell These include albums such as Adam Ant s Strip and The Buggles The Age of Plastic He also recorded jazz with the British National Youth Jazz Orchestra Neil Ardley Ian Carr and Nucleus and the early Landscape recordings He performed live with Graham Collier OBE 4 Producer edit In the early 1980s Burgess emerged as the first producer of the New Romantic movement producing Spandau Ballet s first two gold albums and first seven charting singles He won a Music Week magazine sales award as a producer and has created 24 chart singles and 14 charting albums 7 Other productions included recordings for Living in a Box Adam Ant King New Edition Melba Moore Colonel Abrams America Kim Wilde Five Star Tony Banks and Fish He was also an ambient pioneer in producing the British group Praise He produced engineered and mixed albums by Rubicon and X CNN under the pseudonym Caleb Kadesh and did several mixes using the pseudonym Cadillac Jack 8 He was co producer co executive producer project manager and an author for Jazz The Smithsonian Anthology 9 He also produced The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap 10 and is credited as associate producer on Tony Trischka s album Territory 11 and as a compiler of Classic Piano Blues for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 12 Burgess s mixes and remixes include tracks for 9 Weeks About Last Night and artists Thomas Dolby Lou Reed Youssou N Dour 13 and Luba 8 Innovator edit Burgess defined the computer programmer s and sampler s role in modern music via his work in the 1970s creating the first computer driven hit Einstein a Go Go using the Roland MC 8 Microcomposer He is believed to be the first to record digital samples on a commercial recording with his programming of the Fairlight CMI 14 15 on Kate Bush s Never for Ever album and Visage s single Fade to Grey He conceptualised and co designed the first standalone electronic drum set the hexagonal shaped Simmons SDS V 16 He appeared on three separate occasions on the BBC Television programme Tomorrow s World demonstrating his prototype of the SDSV the Roland MC 8 Microcomposer and the Fairlight CMI He is also reported to have coined the name New Romantic for the subcultural movement of the early 1980s 17 as well as the term electronic dance music EDM which first appeared on the record sleeve of the 1980 Landscape single European Man 18 19 20 21 His New York City productions of Colonel Abrams gold singles Trapped 1984 and I m Not Gonna Let You 1985 are widely considered to have been the precursors to house music 22 with Trapped referred to as a proto house track and a precursor to garage house 23 Educator and academic edit Burgess is a member of the academic advisory committee for The Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production ASARP London College of Music He has lectured on the subject of record production and the music business in the United States and in the United Kingdom He wrote and presented the BBC World Service radio series Let There Be Drums He taught drums at the Annapolis Music School in Maryland 24 and has taught classes on record production and the music business at The Omega Studios School of Applied Recording Arts And Sciences 25 Author edit Burgess s book The Art of Music Production The Theory and Practice which was in 1994 originally entitled The Art of Record Production 26 is now in its fourth edition In 2014 he published his second book The History of Music Production 27 He has written many chapters for other books and articles for technical and music magazines as well as articles papers and interviews for the academic Journal on the Association Art of Record Production JARP for which he is joint editor in chief 28 Manager and executive edit In 1978 Burgess founded a management company Heisenberg Ltd which managed producers and engineers such as Phill Brown Andy Jackson Adam Moseley and Rafe McKenna in the UK and US The company changed its name to Burgess World Co in the mid 1980s and relocated to Maryland from Los Angeles and New York in the mid 1990s where it managed many mid Atlantic based artists including Jimmie s Chicken Shack 29 From 2001 to 2015 Burgess was employed at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings where he was the associate director of Business Strategies 6 Boards edit Burgess has been a member of the executive board of the Music Managers Forum U S was on the national steering committee for the Recording Academy s Producer and Engineer Wing and has served as co chair of the executive committee for Smithsonian Music 30 a pan institutional music initiative He served as vice president of the Washington D C Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and co chair for both the DC Chapter of the Producer and Engineer Wing and the national Producer Compensation Committee He was elected to the board of the American Association of Independent Music in 2013 and then to Chair of the board in 2015 Non profit work edit Burgess is the current President and CEO of the American Association of Independent Music 31 Honours and awards editBurgess was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to music 32 In 2016 he received the British Council Education UK Alumni Award USA in the Professional Achievement category As a member of the avant garde electronic group Accord with Christopher Heaton and Roger Cawkwell he was featured on BBC Radio 3 programs Music in Our Time and Improvisation Workshop With Landscape he won the Greater London Arts Association s Young Jazz Musicians 1976 award and the Vitavox Live Sound award Accord was also selected by the Arts Council of Great Britain for its Park Lane Group Purcell Room concert series 4 He was featured in The A to Z of Rock Drummers 33 In 2016 he won the British Council Education UK Alumni Award for Professional Achievement References edit Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp Outside Organisation Archived from the original on 7 March 2015 Retrieved 3 July 2014 Hooper Mark 1 May 2008 Adventures in synth The Guardian Retrieved 3 July 2014 Reekie Trevor Moments Like These Richard James Burgess NZ Musician Archived from the original on 10 December 2015 Retrieved 9 December 2015 a b c d Richard James Burgess Memim Eencyclopedia Retrieved 9 December 2015 Sarah Pixley James Richard Burgess Interview The Electricity Club Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 9 December 2015 a b Smithsonian Folkways Staff Smithsonian Folkways 20 March 2013 Retrieved 3 July 2014 Richard James Burgess Discography discogs Retrieved 8 October 2011 a b Richard James Burgess Credits AllMusic Retrieved 3 July 2014 Jazz The Smithsonian Anthology Various Artists Smithsonian Folkways 20 March 2013 Retrieved 3 July 2014 The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap Various Artists Smithsonian Folkways 20 August 2020 Retrieved 2 January 2022 Territory Tony Trischka Smithsonian Folkways 20 March 2013 Retrieved 3 July 2014 Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Various Artists Smithsonian Folkways 20 March 2013 Retrieved 3 July 2014 Culture in Action how culture can promote development Lura 11 December 2009 Archived from the original on 10 October 2010 CMI Failight Analog Vocoder Info 20 October 2002 Retrieved 7 December 2015 About Fairlight CMI Artrocker Archived from the original on 7 August 2011 Retrieved 8 October 2011 Dean Matt 2011 The Drum A History Scarecrow Press pp 370 ISBN 978 0810881709 Hooper Mark 1 May 2008 Adventures in synth The Guardian London Retrieved 8 October 2011 RICHARD JAMES BURGESS Interview electricityclub co uk 27 July 2010 Burgess Richard James 17 August 2014 The History of Music Production Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199357178 via Google Books Images for Landscape European Man Discogs Richard James Burgess SoundExchange History of House Music Housegroove net Archived from the original on 7 October 2011 Retrieved 8 October 2011 Burgess Richard James 17 August 2014 The History of Music Production Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199357178 via Google Books Richard James Burgess Drum Teacher Tony Fazio Archived from the original on 13 June 2008 McCarter Mickey 2 April 2015 Don t Miss Spandau Ballet 9 30 Club 4 28 15 Retrieved 9 December 2015 The Art of Music Production published by Omnibus Press Theartofmusicproduction com 2005 ISBN 1844494314 Retrieved 8 October 2011 The History of Music Production Oxford University Press 25 July 2014 ISBN 978 0 19 935716 1 Retrieved 9 December 2015 Instructions for Contributors PDF Journal on the Art of Record Production 7 ASARP 2012 Retrieved 3 July 2014 Burgess World Co Burgess World Co 26 February 2004 Retrieved 3 July 2014 Richard James Burgess Academia Retrieved 9 December 2015 Frontpage A2IM A2IM Retrieved 25 October 2018 No 63571 The London Gazette Supplement 1 January 2022 p N28 Shapiro Harry 1982 The A to Z of Rock Drummers Proteus ISBN 9780862760854 Retrieved 9 December 2015 External links editRichard James Burgess discography at Discogs nbsp Richard James Burgess at AllMusic Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Richard James Burgess amp oldid 1192031651, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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