Norman Granz and Roy Eldridge. In the recording studio, New York, 1976

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Norman Granz and Roy Eldridge in the recording studio, New York, 1976.

Norman Granz was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. Granz was acknowledged as “the most successful impresario in the history of jazz. After school, he began work as a stock clerk on the Los Angeles stock exchange. When America joined the Second World War, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Force. Subsequently, he was posted to the Morale branch, the department charged with troops' entertainment.

b. August 6, 1918 in Los Angeles.
d. November 22, 2001 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Roy Eldridge (by name David Roy Eldridge) was an American jazz trumpeter. Eldridge began playing the piano at the age of five, he claims to have been able to play coherent blues licks at even this young age. From an early age, Roy lacked proficiency at sight-reading, a gap in his musical education that would affect him for much of his early career, but he could replicate melodies by ear very effectively.

b. January 30, 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
d. February 30, 1989 in Valley Stream, New York.

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