Jack Towers (November 15, 1914 – December 23, 2010[1]) was in charge of radio broadcasting at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1952 to 1974 and became a noted remastering engineer of musical recordings after his retirement.
[1] Towers has been called an "audio magician" for his restoring, remastering, and producing of vintage jazz recordings.
[3] His first notable work was when, as young extension service employee, he and fellow jazz aficionado Richard Burris made an amateur live recording of Duke Ellington and His Orchestra at a concert in Fargo, North Dakota in 1940.
[5] The original acetate disks of this recording have since been donated to the Archives Center of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
[6] Towers also remastered works by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and other notable jazz performers.