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The Last Sultan: A Portrait of Ahmet Ertegun as the Great Seducer

The Last Sultan: A Portrait of Ahmet Ertegun as the Great Seducer

Source: HypeBot

"The Last Sultan," Robert Greenfield's biography of iconic Atlantic Record's founder Ahmet Ertegun, offers a very readable account of a man whose career began in the 1940s with recordings of African American music, extending through the development of rock and into the digital age. His work was cut short only by his death in 2006; and before the end of this somewhat worshipful account, one has the picture of a man who had both a great sense of what made ...

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Vocalist Steven Santoro & Ahmet Ertegun

Vocalist Steven Santoro & Ahmet Ertegun

Source: Dawn Singh Publicity

Vocalist Steven Santoro has an impressive biography that includes a rich background in music education and performance. A native of Massachusetts, Santoro graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in African-American music and jazz. His early interests in big band charts and swing provided a solid footing in jazz, but he also enjoyed sitting down at the piano and composing and he eventually merged into the world of pop. His exceptional vocalizing and composing caught the ears of ...

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