Edwin H. "Eddie" Kramer was born April 19, 1942, in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a recording producer and engineer. Kramer has collaborated with several artists now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. These include The Beatles, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Carlos Santana.Kramer has engineered and/or produced records for other well-known artists in various genres. They include Anthrax, Joe Cocker, Peter Frampton, John Mayall, Mott the Hoople, John Sebastian, Carly Simon, The Small Faces, Dionne Warwick and Whitesnake.Kramer’s movie soundtrack credits include Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight, Festival Express, Jimi Plays Monterey, Jimi Plays Berkeley, Live at the Fillmore East, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, The Pursuit of Happiness, Rainbow Bridge, The Song Remains the Same, and Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More. Kramer is interviewed extensively in Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin,’ a two-hour American Masters documentary which debuted in November of 2013.He is also a photographer who has exhibited a number of his intimate images of performers, particularly Hendrix, with whom he worked on Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland, Band of Gypsys, and The Cry of Love, as well as the posthumous Valleys of Neptune, People, Hell and Angels, Miami Pop Festival, and all other releases produced through Experience Hendrix, the organization formed by Hendrix’s legitimate heirs. Kramer was born to art and music-loving parents Sonny and Minna Kramer, active opponents of apartheid who left South Africa in favor of London in the early 1960s for political reasons. At age four he began studying the piano. That instrument remained his first love, but he also dabbled with the violin and the cello. He studied classical piano at the South African College of Music. During these studies he became fascinated with jazz and rock, much to his father’s chagrin. Kramer moved to London at age 19, some six months after his parents’ relocating there. There, in the primordial part of his recording and engineering career, he recorded jazz groups in a home studio with primitive recording equipment, installed hi-fi equipment in antique furniture, and installed album playback systems for the Soho Record Centre, the preeminent London record store chain of the day.
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