![]() ![]() ![]() Merenstein’s early experience had been in the jazz genre - notably with producer Tom Wilson at the Nola Penthouse Studios - when he was approached to work with Morrison in the wake of his US top ten hit of 1967, ‘Brown Eyed Girl.’ It was Merenstein that suggested that the Northern Irish artist’s second album should include some musicians from the jazz world, including double bassist Richard Davis, percussionist Warren Smith Jr and drummer Connie Kay. His other work included records with the Spencer Davis Group, Cass Elliot, John Cale, Curtis Mayfield, Gladys Knight & the Pips and many others. ![]() Record producer Lewis Merenstein, whose most famous credit was overseeing Van Morrison’s 1968 classic Astral Weeks amid a long and varied resumé, died on 6 September in New York at the of 81, of complications from pneumonia. ![]()
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