AES New York 2015 Presenter or Author
Harvey Goldberg
Primary Affiliation: CBS/Late Show with Stephen Colbert - New York, NY USA
Harvey Jay Goldberg is a Grammy Award-winning, Emmy nominated music recording engineer, mixer and record producer with more than 30 years’ experience and multiple gold and platinum albums to his name. He began his career at age 17 working with Stevie Wonder at Manhattan’s prestigious Media Sound Studios; at 19 he was promoted to senior engineer, recording and mixing for jazz great Duke Ellington and renowned folk singer Richie Havens. He landed his first big hits, with Kool &the Gang’s “Jungle Boogie” and “Hollywood Swinging” on the classic R&B funk album Wild & Peaceful, leading to three more hit albums with Kool & the Gang, and a solid career working with countless jazz and R&B artists from Dizzy Gillespie to James Brown.
Goldberg also established his reputation in rock, working with such acts as Peter Frampton, Roger Daltry, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards and groundbreaking punk artists The Ramones and The Dead Boys, and went on to helm the board on mixes for numerous New Wave hits including Til Tuesday’s “Voices Carry,” Modern English’s “I’ll Stop the World” and Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy.” Goldberg also had a longtime association with legendary jazz producer Bob Thiele including work on the Grammy-winning, star studded album Blues for Coltrane.
By the mid ‘90s he began working on broadcast music mixing for television, and made a full time commitment in 1998 to the The Late Show with David Letterman, where he was responsible for mixing every music act from 1998 to 2015 and was nominated for an Emmy for “Outstanding Sound Mixing.” Also the recipient of two awards from the Tech Museum of Innovation, Goldberg is now broadcast music mixer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Session List
Oct 31:
GRAMMY SoundTable: After Hours—Mixing for Late Night New York (Panelist)
