Norman Granz : the man who used jazz for justice / Tad Hershorn ; foreword by Oscar Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hershorn, Tad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Granz, Norman, 1918-2001.

Granz, Norman.

Impresarios--United States--Biography.

Impresarios.

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential, often thoroughly unpleasant-and one of jazz's true giants. Granz played an essential part in bringing jazz to audiences around the world, defying racial and social prejudice as he did so, and demanding that African-American performers be treated equally everywhere they toured. In this definitive biography, Hershorn recounts Granz's story: creator of the legendary jam session concerts known as Jazz at the Philharmonic; founder of the Verve record label; pioneer of live recordings and worldwide jazz concert tours; manager and recording producer for numerous stars, including Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Prologue: "I Made Things Work"

1. "A ll I Wanted Was My Freedom"

2. "A Marvelous Crucible"

3. Cole Train

4. "The Opener"

5. Let Freedom Swing

6. Norman Granz versus . . .

7. Mambo Jambo

8. Enter Ella and Oscar

9. The Continental

10. "I Feel Most at Home in the Studio"

11. Starry Nights

12. "T hat Tall Old Man Standing Next to Ella Fitzgerald"

13. The Jazz Hurricane

14. "T he Lost Generation"

15. Duke, Prez, and Billie

16. Joie de Verve

17. Across the Sea

18. "Musicians Don't Want to Jam"

19. Picasso on the Beach

20. "One More Once"

21. Takin' It on Out - for Good

22. "Somewhere There's Music"

Epilogue: "My Career, Such As It Is . . ."

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613291837

9781283291835

1283291835

9780520949775

0520949773

OCLC:

756485066