Norman Granz : the Man Who Used Jazz for Justice

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Label

Norman Granz : the Man Who Used Jazz for Justice

Title remainder

the Man Who Used Jazz for Justice

Creator

• Hershorn, Tad

Subject

• African American musicians -- Biography
• African American musicians -- United States
• Biography
• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- Songs and music
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• Granz, Norman, 1918-2001
• Granz, Norman, 1918-2001
• Impresarios
• Impresarios -- United States -- Biography
• Jazz
• African American musicians
• Jazz musicians
• Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography
• MUSIC -- Genres & Styles | Jazz
• Music -- Social aspects
• Music -- Social aspects -- United States
• Songs and music
• United States
• Jazz -- History and criticism

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• Songs and music
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography