Norman Granz (Los Angeles, USA, August 6, 1918 - Geneva, Switzerland, November 22, 2001), was one of the major employers and producers of jazz.
emerged the crowd with a memorable concert in the auditorium of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the title "Jazz at the Philharmonic" (JATP), The group that was made for this concert was without a doubt
Ray Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Sonny Criss, Nat King Cole (pianist), Hank Jones, Shelley Mann, Fats Navarro, Flip Phillips, Tommy Turk, organized as two annual tours from 1946 to 1949. So aside Tours lasted until 1957 and briefly revived in 1967. Norman Granz
think several record labels independent, to record jazz, Clef Records, Norgren Records, Down Home Records, the largest to date Verve Records (Acquired later by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and the last label that I was Pablo Records in Switzerland.
paraded their record in many of the greatest jazz performers
Cannonball Adderley, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Louie Bellson, Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Buddy DeFranco, Tal Farlow, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, Billie Holiday, Illinois Jacquet, Barney Kessel, Gene Krupa, Howard McGhee, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Flip Phillips, Bud Powell,
Sonny Stitt, Ben Webster and Lester Young.
Norman Granz was a stand against racist for its artists, in a time of great conflict on this issue. In 1955, in Houston, Texas, personally took label "white" and "black" that separated the audience in the auditorium where concerts would be held by Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. Before the second concert were found in the clubhouse playing cards and arrested by local police. After some negotiations secured the release for the second concert.
counted as Oscar Peterson, Norman Granz was even threatened by police with a gun placed in his stomach, due to giving equal treatment to blacks and whites in their tours. He paid equal pay for black and white and equal treatment of even minor details such as type of walk-in closets.
He Died of cancer in 2001 driving his Pablo label which you can still find some recordings.
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