Performance · Production
Richie Cannata
Richie Cannata is credited on 531 releases across 87 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1976–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
531
Pressings credited
87
Albums
6
Decades active
747
In collections
Biography
Richie Cannata (born March 3, 1949) is an American music producer, saxophonist, keyboardist and studio owner. He is most notable for playing saxophone in Billy Joel's band alongside Liberty DeVitto, Russell Javors, and Doug Stegmeyer. After leaving the band in 1981, he opened Cove City Sound Studios in Glen Cove, New York. Artists including Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have recorded in Cannata's studio. Cannata also worked with the Beach Boys for most of the 1990s, touring and occasionally recording with them during this period.
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Credited work
531 releases · 87 albums · active 1976–2025
- Performance · 1,060
- Production · 72
- Other credits · 5
Studios: Cove City Sound Studios · A&R Studios · Platinum Island Studios · Ultra-Sonic Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Stranger
1977
52nd Street
1978
Glass Houses
1980
Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II
1985
Turnstiles
1976
Songs In The Attic
1981
River Of Dreams
1993
Feel Flows (The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971)
2021
21 At 33
1980
Sail On Sailor •1972•
2022
Dream Theater
2013
Tell It To My Heart
1987
The Astonishing
2016
These Are Special Times
1998
Stiletto
1990
Can't Fight Fate
1989
The Album
2023
12 Gardens Live
2006
Imagination
1998
2000 Years: The Millennium Concert
2000
Cheap Trick
1997
Girls With Guns
1984
The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1
2021
Live At Carnegie Hall
2019
Frequent collaborators
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