Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941. As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods. In 1961 he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording. Wikipedia
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Quincy Jones was best man at his 1984 wedding to Karen Kamon He has 30 Grammy nominations, 12 Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Has produced albums for Karen Carpenter, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, www.imdb.com/name/nm0708500/
