Choose language
    Spoofbox Login

    Forgot your password?

    Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

    Create a FREE Spoofbox Account

    No subscription or hidden extras

    Login

    Norman Granz

    Read through the most famous quotes from 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. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #apart #art #art form #attached #form

    I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #doing #fan #i #i am #jazz

    I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #find #i #live #more #myself

    I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #artists #certain #easier #i #made

    I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #concert #continue #four #i #least

    I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #concerned #fans #i #jazz #know

    I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #i #impresario #judging #professional #talking

    If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #barbra streisand #combination #duke #duke ellington #ellington

    If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #europe #even #hardly #look #teenagers

    In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland. ↗


    — Norman Granz

    #europe #going #i #live #moved






    About Norman Granz

    Norman Granz Quotes


    Related Authors


    Famous Authors



    Did you know about Norman Granz?

    After the agreement expired in 1953 he issued the JATP recordings and other recordings on Clef Records (founded 1946) and Norgran Records (founded 1953). After several JATP concerts in Los Angeles in 1944 and 1945 Granz began producing JATP concert tours from late fall of 1945 to 1957 in USA and Canada and from 1952 in Europe. 7th National Tour: Fall 1948.

    Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz especially from about 1947 to 1960. Norman Granz (August 6 1918 Los Angeles USA – November 22 2001 Geneva Switzerland) was an American jazz music impresario and producer.

    back to top