JAMBOX Entertainment is a music company located in midtown Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

, New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 that functions primarily as a recording studio and music production company. Located in a three room recording facility on 352 Seventh Avenue

Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)

Seventh Avenue, known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park, is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is southbound below Central Park and a two-way street north of the park....

, JAMBOX is co-owned by Lee Evans and Cathy Palmisano. It is known locally for recording and producing many notable New York

New York

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 and New Jersey

New Jersey

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 based artists

Musician

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, such as the Naked Cowboy

Naked Cowboy

Robert John Burck , better known as the Naked Cowboy, is an American street performer whose pitch is on New York City's Times Square...

 and Lori Michaels.

History

JAMBOX Recording Studios was opened by Lee Evans in 1980 as a 4 track recording studio

Recording studio

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 in a small basement apartment

Basement apartment

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 in The Bronx

The Bronx

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. Says Evans about the origin of the studio’s name: “It was always tight and hot as heck down there. Guys would say it felt (and smelled) like a sweatbox but man... we used to jam!” In 1989, JAMBOX Recording Studios relocated to midtown Manhattan, expanding into a three room recording facility and broadening its services, officially becoming JAMBOX Entertainment. Currently, four companies operate under JAMBOX entertainment: JAMBOX Recording Studios, 4Sight Music Productions, Lori Michaels Productions, and non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 Reach Out Inc.

Services

Besides recording

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...

 and mixing

Audio mixing (recorded music)

In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

, JAMBOX offers a number of other services.

• AET Audio Engineering Course - Teaches the basics of recording and mixing to its students.
• Music Transfer and Restoration - A service providing the transfer of cassettes
  Compact Cassette
  The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
  
  , records
  Gramophone record
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  LP album
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  s, 45s, 78s) and ADATS to a digital medium
  Digital audio
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   such as CD
  Compact Disc
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   or MP3
  MP3
  MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
  
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• Waves
  Waves Audio
  Waves Audio Ltd. is a developer and supplier of professional audio signal processing technologies and audio effects, used in recording, mixing, mastering, post production, surround, live, and broadcast sound...
  
   Certification Course
• CD Mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  
• The Gift of Song
• JAMBOX Live
• World Class Demos
  Demo (music)
  A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...
  
  
• Corporate Audio Services
• Location Recording

Notable Clients

The Naked Cowboy, P-Star

P-Star

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, McDonald's Corp.

McDonald's

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, Lori Michaels, Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter, actor and producer. Anthony is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy and three-time Latin Grammy–winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads...

, Willie Colón

Willie Colón

William Anthony Colón is a Nuyorican salsa musician. Primarily a trombonist, Colón also sings, writes, produces and acts. He is also involved in municipal politics in New York City.-Early years:...

, Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa is an American DJ from the South Bronx, New York who was instrumental in the early development of hip hop throughout the 1980s. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the three originators of break-beat deejaying, and is respectfully known as the "Grandfather" and the Amen Ra of Universal...

 Jazzy Jay

Jazzy Jay

Jazzy Jay born in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States, November 18, 1961), also known as The Original Jazzy Jay or DJ Jazzy Jay, is a pioneering American hip hop DJ and producer. He has collected roughly 400,000 records.-Background:...

, Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah

Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American singer, rapper, and actress. Her work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy...

, Doug E. Fresh

Doug E. Fresh

Douglas E. Davis , better known by the stage name Doug E. Fresh, is an American rapper, record producer, and beat boxer, also known as the Human Beat Box...

, Sa-Fire

Sa-Fire

Wilma Cosmé better known by her stage name SaFire, is an American singer. While she was one of the few freestyle artist to have major pop-chart success, she is considered an important part of Latin freestyle...

, The Cover Girls

The Cover Girls

The Cover Girls is a New York City-based freestyle-urban-dance-pop girl group that achieved the majority of its chart success in the late 1980s and early 1990s...

, TKA

TKA

TKA was a Latin Freestyle trio that was prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s, mainly in New York City and Miami, Florida. Its members were Tony Ortiz, Louis "Kayel" Sharpe, and Alejandro "Aby" Escoto later replaced by Angel "Love" Vasquez. The acronym TKA represents their collective initials...

, Amoretto, Cyre, The Cold Crush Brothers

The Cold Crush Brothers

The Cold Crush Brothers is a hip hop group that formed in 1979 in the Bronx, New York City, New York, alongside other early hip hop acts.-Formation:...

, The Force M.D.s

The Force M.D.s

The Force MDs is an American R&B vocal group, that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York.- Biography :The Force M.D.'s originally called themselves the L.D.s, then the Force MCs, but ultimately preferred MD, which is short for Musical Diversity...

, Brass Construction

Brass Construction

Brass Construction was an American funk group formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1968. They were originally known as Dynamic Soul, and went on to record a string of hit singles and albums through to 1985.-Career:...

, Rainy Davis

Rainy Davis

Denise Lorraine Davis , better known by her stage name Rainy Davis, is an American R&B songwriter, singer, and record producer. Out of four Billboard charted singles, Davis is known best for her song "Sweetheart". A generation of fans adopted the song as their anthem to romantic love, giving it a...

, Glen Jones, and DJ Jose “Animal” Diaz.