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Norman Granz

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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.


— Norman Granz


#enjoy #give #i #i think #long

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.


— Norman Granz


#band #because #big #big band #duke

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.


— Norman Granz


#does #ellington #leader #movie #musician

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.


— Norman Granz


#jazz #kind #ones #only #philharmonic

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.


— Norman Granz


#being #country #duke #ella #europe

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.


— Norman Granz


#artists #continue #could #create #felt

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.


— Norman Granz


#going #hence #i #jazz #know

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.


— Norman Granz


#civil #civil rights #dealing #development #facade

I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.


— Norman Granz


#any #ever #i #over #rather

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.


— Norman Granz


#area #because #been #economic #enough






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After the agreement expired in 1953 he issued the JATP recordings and other recordings on Clef Records (founded 1946) and Norgran Records (founded 1953). After several JATP concerts in Los Angeles in 1944 and 1945 Granz began producing JATP concert tours from late fall of 1945 to 1957 in USA and Canada and from 1952 in Europe. 7th National Tour: Fall 1948.

Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz especially from about 1947 to 1960. Norman Granz (August 6 1918 Los Angeles USA – November 22 2001 Geneva Switzerland) was an American jazz music impresario and producer.

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