Farewell
Jeffrey Poe
12/23/56
- 8/5/06
Time
is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
(From
a poem "FOR KATRINA'S SUN DIAL" by Henry van Dyke)
Grammy
Award-winning engineer/mixer Jeffrey
Clark Poe (Carlos
Santana, Madonna, Guns ‘n’ Roses)
passed
away from a stroke on August 5, 2006 at the age of 49.
He is survived by Karna
Hanson, daughters Kestrel Hanson and Mally Hanson Mancilla, grandson
Rylan Mancilla, his mother Gloria Poe Short, his sister Lisa Poe
Elliott and his brother Gregory Poe.
"It
is a drag as Jeff was a really cool guy. Talented, and fun to spend
time with. He is already missed by us all," says producer Matt
Wallace. "He was one of the finest talents we had the pleasure
of working with. We have never put out a record without him. He
was much more than our artistic partner. Elan called him
her 'muse'. He was and forever will be a member of our family,"
says Jan Carlo DeFan (Poe was nicknamed 'The Pirate' by the
DeFan family). "He was one of the greatest guys I knew,"
says Poncho Tomaselli, a musician friend who called from the road
to express his loss. "Jeff loved his work. We feel shock and
grief
as friends of a special man who left us too soon. He's probably
setting up studio up there somewhere and gathering few talented
artists around him right now," says Claris Sayadian-Dodge.
Jeff Fogerty, Aurin Lahiri, Carolyn Lynch, Eric Friske and KC and
Amie Porter are among friends who have contacted studioexpresso
and would like to send their heartfelt sympathy to Karna and the
entire Poe Family. He lives in our hearts and in the
music he left behind.
Jeff
Poe
musician
l arranger l engineer l mixer l producer
Poe
at Chalice Studios
Photo: By The C
Poe
was a Grammy Award-winning engineer & mixer. He was also one
of Rock 'N Roll's finest Producers who combined experience with
cutting edge technical expertise.
An avid ProTools user, Jeff was the first engineer to win the Grammy
for Record Of The Year by mixing , Santana's groundbreaking 1999
Album Release (On Arista Records) "Supernatural" on Pro-Tools
which has gone Diamond and sold 24 Million copies worldwide.
Having
apprenticed and worked with Ron Nevison, Phil Ramon, Mike Clink,
Antonio "LA" Reid & Babyface to name but a few, Poe
sharpened his skills the old fashioned way… hard work. A graduate
of Berklee College of Music, Jeffrey made
the Deans List
and is an exceptionally gifted arranger and composer.
Poe
mixed Carlos
Santana's Shaman (Arista), the follow up to the hugely successful
Supernatural cd.
The album, executive-produced by L.A. Reid and co-produced by Clive
Davis, debuted No. 1 in the U.S. according to SoundScan, and No.
2 on Music & Media's European Top 100 Albums Chart.He also worked
with numerous talented musicians and songwriters like Elan (previously
signed to EMI), JB Eckel, Aurin Lahiri and "Planet B."
The list of artists Poe has worked with include Bob Dylan, Michael
Jackson, Kiss, Nelly Furtado, John Cougar Mellencamp, Brian McKnight,
Ricky Martin, Madonna and Guns ‘n’ Roses.
L-R:
Grammy Win: Clive Davis, KC Porter, Carlos Santana and Jeff Poe
at Grammy Awards
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