Arnaldo DeSouteiro

Los Angeles-based Brazilian record producer, Arnaldo DeSouteiro is the founder and CEO of the JSR (Jazz Station Records) label, a division of Jazz Station Marketing & Consulting, located in LA, California. Influenced by Creed Taylor and Rudy Van Gelder, he is also a journalist, publicist, arranger, composer, percussionist, radio DJ, sound engineer, educator, Member of IAJE, JJA (Jazz Journalists Association), LAJS (Los Angeles Jazz Society), AIM, ABI, and Voting Member of NARAS-GRAMMY. Arnaldo DeSouteiro has produced over 350 albums and sessions featuring such artists as Luiz Bonfa, João Gilberto, Dom Um Romao, Ithamara Koorax, Thiago De Mello, Dexter Payne, João Donato, Palmyra & Levita, Mario Castro Neves, Jorge Pescara, Paula Faour, Fabio Fonseca, Claudio Roditi, Anna Ly, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Pascoal Meirelles, Yana Purim, Pingarilho, Nelson Angelo, Marcelo Salazar, Ron Carter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Steve Swallow, Herbie Hancock, Hugo Fattoruso, Larry Coryell, Sadao Watanabe, Jurgen Friedrich, Eloir De Moraes, Gazzara, Eumir Deodato, Jadir de Castro, Azymuth, Marcio Montarroyos, Sivuca, Laudir de Oliveira, Marcos Valle, Jay Berliner, George Young, David Matthews, Lew Soloff, Alphonso Johnson, Gene Bertoncini, John McLaughlin, Claus Ogerman, Raul de Souza, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and many others. Besides his work for JSR, DeSouteiro has produced many reissues, compilations and new projects for Verve, Milestone Records, Fantasy, CTI Records, Kudu, Sony, Sonet, JVC, Huks, Motema, Warner, RCA, BMG, Paddle Wheel, Rambling and other labels. He is married to actress Lisa Marie.