Jack Hartley

American recording engineer, early Charter Member of Audio Engineering Society. Jack Hartley (1923, Hawthorne, New Jersey — 24 November 2003) was a historian and discographer of big band jazz, specializing in Stan Kenton and Johnny Richards. He compiled several LP/CD releases for Capitol Records and Kenton's Creative World mailorder label, also authoring liner notes. Hartley lived in Waldwick, New Jersey, for most of his life. He obtained an amateur radio broadcasting license in high school and pursued radio production studies at New York University before entering the military service in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II. Between 1946 and the early 1950s, Hartley worked at the Voice Of America recording studios, operating the first batch of Magnecord tape units. Jack then joined the Fisher Radio Corporation as a regional sales manager. In the mid-1970s, he began working for a small audio equipment manufacturer in New Jersey, retiring in 1987 and relocating to Manchester, NJ. In the last years of his career, Jack Hartley worked as an audio engineer and station manager for a local TV broadcaster, KLVW.