Granz, Norman

Granz, Norman
▪ 2002

      American concert and record producer (b. Aug. 6, 1918, Los Angeles, Calif.—d. Nov. 22, 2001, Geneva, Switz.), presented top musicians in Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) concerts around the world and documented them on records for over four decades. At JATP shows, soloists won wild applause for frantic honking-horn “battles,” but they also created music of lasting merit. Virtually every major black swing-era musician played and recorded for him—among them the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands, pianist Art Tatum, saxophonists Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Carter, and singers Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong—as did modernists such as Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, John Coltrane (saxophones), and Bud Powell (piano). Pianist Oscar Peterson was his favourite JATP accompanist and by far his most prolific recording artist; Granz also produced Ella Fitzgerald's concerts and her popular series of Songbook albums. Though Granz lost revenue when he refused to present concerts before racially segregated audiences, his enterprises were valued at $5 million by the mid-1950s. After service in the U.S. Army Air Force, Granz became an MGM film editor and produced the Academy Award-nominated short film Jammin' the Blues (1944). That year he produced the concert that began his globe-trotting career of staged jam sessions. He founded Clef Records in 1946 and Norgran Records in 1953 and combined them into Verve Records in 1956; in 1973 he formed Pablo Records, but he sold it in 1987.

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