Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice

by Tad Hershorn and D. Jenish

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520267826
• ISBN13: 9780520267824
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"