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Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 3)

Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 3)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Tad Hershorn spent decades working on Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice (University of California Press). For his newly published biography, Tad interviewed Granz multiple times before his death. Though Tad had enormous respect for Granz and his accomplishments on behalf of jazz and civil rights, he maintains a steely objectivity in his writing, determined to paint a portrait of Granz that's both detailed and honest, warts and all. Among the most intriguing parts of the book ...

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Recording

Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 4)

Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 4)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Like the late Steve Jobs, Norman Granz was someone who worshipped art and made technology accessbile to millions of consumers. In the case of Granz, of course, that technology was jazz records. In Tad Hershorn's Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice (University of California Press), we learn things about Granz we didn't know before. Among them are revelations that Granz had a strong leftist background, that he took big personal and financial risks as a major advocate ...

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Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 2)

Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 2)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Norman Granz wasn't a complicated man. He was merely an entrepreneur who loved highly creative people and felt their brilliance deserved wider recognition. Once you understand this about him, much of what comes next falls neatly into place. For years Granz has been considered an enigma because most people like him tended to go into other lines of work or rarely cared as much as he did about the creative people in their employ. Through Tad Hershorn's new biography Norman ...

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Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 1)

Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz (Pt. 1)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Norman Granz played perhaps the single biggest role in the spread of small-group jazz in the years following World War II. As a concert promoter and record company founder, Granz had tireless drive, a undiminished passion for the music and musicians, and a buzzsaw personality that came in handy along the way. Yet little is known about what made him tick or how he managed to promote bebop's popularity and legitimize the American Songbook. Until now, that is. Tad Hershorn's ...

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