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Title:
Norman Granz : the Man Who Used Jazz for Justice.
Author:
Hershorn, Tad.
ISBN:
9780520949775
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (502 pages)
Abstract:
"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 biogra.
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