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Steve Backer

Steve Backer is credited on 885 releases across 527 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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885

Credits

527

Albums

6

Decades active

186

In collections

Biography

Producer and supervisor.
Backer was born in Brooklyn on June 3, 1937. Died in Englewood, NJ, on April 10, 2014. He worked with such labels as ABC/Impulse (where he was national promotion director and then general manager), Arista, Windham Hill/Magenta, Savoy and RCA.

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Credited work

885 releases · 527 albums · active 1970–2025

  • Production · 706
  • Other credits · 174
  • Performance · 13
  • Engineering · 2

Studios: Montreux Jazz Festival · Generation Sound Studios · Electric Lady Studios · Sound Ideas Studios

Discography

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