1. David Breskin was born on 1958 and is an American writer, poet, and record producer.
19 Facts About David Breskin
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David Breskin has written nine books, including collaborations with the visual artists Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha.
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David Breskin wrote for publications including Esquire, The Village Voice, GQ, Musician, Life, and Rolling Stone, where he was a contributing editor.
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In 1984, David Breskin wrote "Kids in the Dark", a Rolling Stone article about the murder of Gary Lauwers by self-professed Satanist Ricky Kasso, told almost completely in the words of the teens and young adults he interviewed in Northport, New York.
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David Breskin wrote "Leave It to Beaver", an investigation into a group of high school vigilantes in Fort Worth, Texas, who called themselves the Legion of Doom.
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David Breskin's 1984 piece on teen suicide, "Dear Mom and Dad", was a National Magazine Awards finalist.
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In 1985, after he profiled record producer Quincy Jones for LIFE, David Breskin was invited to be one of two journalists present for the recording of "We Are the World", a song which benefited the charity USA For Africa.
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David Breskin wrote a cover story on the subject for LIFE and later wrote the book We Are The World: The Photos, Music and Inside Story of One of the Most Historic Events in American Popular Music.
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David Breskin donated all royalties from the book's sales to USA for Africa.
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Active in New York's avant-garde music scene since the early 80s, David Breskin produced Ronald Shannon Jackson's "milestone" albums Mandance and Barbeque Dog.
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David Breskin commissioned Bill Frisell to compose new music for the project.
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Between 2014 and 2016, David Breskin produced The Nels Cline Singers' follow-up, Macroscope, as well as albums by Mark Dresser, Ben Goldberg, Kris Davis and Mary Halvorson.
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David Breskin worked again with Nels Cline, this time on his 23-person ensemble album, Lovers, named by the 2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll as one of the Top 10 albums of that year.
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David Breskin's subsequent production projects include albums by Kris Davis and Craig Taborn, Dan Weiss, Mary Halvorson, Chris Lightcap, Cory Smythe, Ingrid Laubrock and Mark Dresser.
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Davis and Taborn joined together to release the David Breskin-produced Octopus in 2018.
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Three additional albums produced by David Breskin came out in October 2019: Jon Irabagon's Invisible Horizon, Chris Lightcap's SuperBigmouth, and Kris Davis' Diatom Ribbons, featuring Grammy Award-winning artists Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington as well as turntablist Val Jeanty.
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Seven Storey Mountain VI, the next part of Nate Wooley's album series inspired by priest, monk and philosopher Thomas Merton's autobiography, was produced by David Breskin and released October 2020.
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David Breskin challenged Halvorson to organize her lyrics into different poetic forms, including a sestina, a ghazal, a pantoum, a tanka and a haibun.
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In November 2020, the David Breskin-produced Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt by Ingrid Laubrock was released by Intakt Records.