Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine dem… - Norman Granz
Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine dem…
- Norman Granz
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent. - Norman Granz
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six. - Norman Granz
I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back. - Norman Granz
If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create. - Norman Granz
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers. - Norman Granz
If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind. - Norman Granz
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. - Norman Granz
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Jazz was uplifted by what I did. - Norman Granz
Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
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