Larry Klein

Larry Klein is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is based in Los Angeles.

He began his career as a bassist, playing with jazz artists Willie Bobo, Freddie Hubbard, Carmen McRae, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, and Dianne Reeves. As a bass player he has also worked with artists such as Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Peter Gabriel, Don Henley, Lindsey Buckingham, Randy Newman, and Joni Mitchell. Klein has produced more than 100 albums during his career, for musicians such as Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Shawn Colvin, Holly Cole, Madeleine Peyroux, The Innocence Mission, Melody Gardot, Walter Becker and Tracy Chapman. When Klein was in junior high school, he was enrolled in the Community School for the Performing Arts, an after-school music program at the University of Southern California.

After graduating from high school early and enrolling at California State University, Klein began to work with various jazz and Latin music groups. His first job as a touring musician was with Freddie Hubbard. Peter Gabriel's So (also touring with Gabriel), and Bobby McFerrin's self-titled debut. The two married in August 2006. He produced Souza's 2007 album The New Bossa Nova. The album features vocals from artists including Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, Tina Turner, Leonard Cohen, Luciana Souza, Wayne Shorter, and Mitchell herself.

In 2009, Klein produced Madeleine Peyroux's Bare Bones and produced a duet with Celine Dion and Zachary Richard on Richard's album Last Kiss. He was nominated for Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) at the 52nd Grammy Awards for his work on albums including Melody Gardot's My One and Only Thrill.

Klein continued his work with Herbie Hancock, producing The Imagine Project. The album won the 2010 Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

Strange Cargo (2011–present) In 2011, Klein partnered with Universal Music Group and Decca Label Group to create the imprint label Strange Cargo. The imprint's first signing was Thomas Dybdahl.

Klein produced Pidgeon's Slingshot and Curtis Stigers' Let's Go Out Tonight in 2012.

Klein produced Bobby Bazini's debut U.S. album, Where I Belong, in August 2014. He also produced Billy Childs' Map of The Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro. He produced Melody Gardot's 2015 studio album Currency of Man, and her 2020 studio album Sunset in the Blue. He produced Lang Lang's 2016 album New York Rhapsody, which featured artists including Lisa Fischer, Jason Isbell, Madeleine Peyroux, Herbie Hancock, Robbie Robertson, and actor Jeffrey Wright. He and Billy Childs received a Grammy nomination for arranging one of the tracks, which weaved together the Lou Reed song "Dirty Boulevard" with Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" from West Side Story. and her 2020 album The Women Who Raised Me.

In 2019, he received his third Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year, for producing Madeleine Peyroux's Anthem, The Book of Longing by Luciana Souza, Junk by Hailey Tuck, Thomas Dybdahl's All These Things, and actor Jeff Goldblum's debut jazz album The Capitol Studios Sessions.

Awards Klein has won four Grammys: Best Pop Album in 1996 for Joni Mitchell's Turbulent Indigo, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Mitchell's Both Sides Now in 2001, Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Album for Herbie Hancock's album, River: The Joni Letters in 2008.

Turbulent Indigo Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album

Both Sides Now Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Grammy Award for Album of the Year |Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album

Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals

Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Production credits

Work in films Klein has professional credits for film soundtracks including The King of Comedy, Raging Bull, Grace of My Heart, Toy Story, Sweet November and Brokeback Mountain, as well as the theme song for the television series Felicity.

Personal life Klein and Joni Mitchell were married in November 1982, and divorced in 1994. In 2006, Klein married Luciana Souza. Klein and Souza have one son, Noah.