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...made any effort over the two decades it took to write his book to track down any of the Army personnel who served with Young, many of whom could be presumed to have been still alive when Daniels began his research - he began a long-time association with Norman Granz's floating jam session, called Jazz at the Philharmonic. A few weeks after his dishonorable discharge, Young appeared at the January, 1946 concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium at Los Angeles. The air was electric that night, because this was to be a meeting of the titans: Lester Young, the great...
DIED. NORMAN GRANZ, 83, one-man jazz-promoting machine who founded Verve Records and in 1944 created the touring group Jazz at the Philharmonic, which included such members as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; in Geneva, Switzerland...