Women In Sound with Leslie Ann Jones
Leslie Ann Jones is a trailblazing, seven-time Grammy award winning recording engineer with a career spanning nearly 50 years. After getting her start at ABC Recording Studios in Los Angeles, where she was the first woman hired as an assistant engineer in 1975, she spent the next 20 years in a variety of production roles at renowned institutions like The Automatt and Capitol Studios. In 1997, she joined Skywalker Sound as the Director of Music Recording and Scoring. Her film score credits include Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, and George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck. Leslie’s expansive discography includes legendary artists like Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Bonnie Raitt, and The Kronos Quartet, among many others.
For the finale of season 2, host Madeleine Campbell sat down with Leslie to discuss her storied history, selected tracks from her discography, and recording film and video game scores.