Music and Production Career
Ezrin has worked on recordings with numerous major artists, including Alice Cooper, KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Hanoi Rocks, Taylor Swift, Peter Gabriel, K'naan, 2Cellos, Kristin Chenoweth, Rod Stewart, Nine Inch Nails, The Jayhawks, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Darkness, Jane's Addiction, Dr. John, Nils Lofgren, Berlin, Kansas, Julian Lennon and Deftones, among many others.
Ezrin has been described by Alice Cooper as "our George Martin". Having defined the group's sound on his first album as a producer, Love it to Death in 1971, Ezrin embarked on a long-term collaboration that by 1973 would see the release of the number one Billion Dollar Babies album a year after the success of School's Out and Alice Cooper established as one of the biggest acts in the world. After the group separated, Ezrin continued his collaboration with Alice as a solo artist in 1975 with Cooper's ground breaking Welcome To My Nightmare. Ezrin worked with the Alice Cooper group (and later with Alice as a solo artist) not just as a producer but also co-writer, arranger and musician.
Ezrin produced KISS's best selling album, Destroyer, in 1976. As explained by Peter Criss during an interview in the documentary KISS: Krazy Killer (1994), Ezrin co-wrote, arranged and performed the piano accompaniment to the song Beth. He went on to produce two other albums with the band and remains close to them to this day.
Ezrin has worked with Pink Floyd on a number of occasions, co-producing the albums The Wall, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell. He has also co-written their songs "The Trial", "Signs of Life", "Learning to Fly" and "Take It Back".
In May 2009, Ezrin co-produced The Clearwater Concert at Madison Square Garden celebrating the 90th birthday of musician and activist, Pete Seeger, and starring over 50 guest artists including Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Ben Harper, Joan Baez, Tom Morello, Ani DiFranco, Emmylou Harris and Kris Kristofferson. He was also co-producer of the PBS broadcast of the event.
Since 2010, Ezrin co-produced Peter Gabriel's album, Scratch My Back; co-produced "The House Rules", by Christian Kane; produced singles for K'naan, the Canadian Tenors and young pop sensation Fefe Dobson for her album Joy. As well he reunited with Alice Cooper working on his last album Welcome 2 My Nightmare and on the current live show and numerous other related projects together, and he produced a Nashville album by stage, TV and film superstar Kristin Chenoweth entitled Some Lessons Learned for Sony. Recently, he has mixed several projects including Taylor Swift's Speak Now World Tour Live CD and DVD and the new album by the Darkness. He has just completed a new album by 2Cellos and is currently producing an album for rock legends, Deep Purple. And under the heading of live and special events, Ezrin produced a live and TV extravaganza to reopen the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, starring Green Day and U2; worked on an album and live opera with L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio in Rome, Italy.
In 2012, Ezrin Remixed Kiss' 1976 Double-Platinum album Destroyer.
Also, Ezrin created new theatrical, television and live events with @Radical.Media in New York including Jay-Z's feature film, Fade to Black.
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