Richie Cannata
Biography
Richie Cannata (born March 3, 1949) is an American music producer, saxophonist, keyboardist and studio owner. He is most notable for playing saxophone in Billy Joel's band alongside Liberty DeVitto, Russell Javors, and Doug Stegmeyer. After leaving the band in 1981, he opened Cove City Sound Studios in Glen Cove, New York. Artists including Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have recorded in Cannata's studio. Cannata also worked with the Beach Boys for most of the 1990s, touring and occasionally recording with them during this period.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Stranger
1977
52nd Street
1978
Glass Houses
1980
Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II
1985
Turnstiles
1976
Songs In The Attic
1981
River Of Dreams
1993
Feel Flows (The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971)
2021
Dream Theater
2013
The Astonishing
2016
Tell It To My Heart
1987
These Are Special Times
1998
The Album
2023
12 Gardens Live
2006
Imagination
1998
Stiletto
1990
Can't Fight Fate
1989
21 At 33
1980
Live At Carnegie Hall
2019
2000 Years: The Millennium Concert
2000
Cheap Trick
1997
Satisfied
1979
The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1
2021
Girls With Guns / What If
2013
Credited work
1,425 releases · 87 albums · active 1976–2026
- Performance · 3,272
- Production · 123
- Other credits · 85
- Engineering · 1
Studios: A&R Studios · Cove City Sound Studios · The Hit Factory · Power Station